Cyber Security Consultant - Portsmouth, United Kingdom - TalentHawk

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    Contract: 6 Months

    Our client is currently seeking an Information Security Consultant to collaborate with the Cyber Security Programme and Non-Cyber Programmes, ensuring that projects are securely designed, implemented, and operated in accordance with legislative, regulatory, and business security requirements.

    As one of several Information Security Specialists within various Programmes, you will work closely with Project & Programme management, business stakeholders, architects, business analysts, and suppliers. Your role will involve operating under regulatory conditions to determine our clients IT environment's security posture.

    The ideal candidate will possess technical security expertise along with a strong team focus, excellent communication skills, relationship building abilities, and influencing skills.

    Key Responsibilities:

    • Acting as a Project Security consultant supporting both Cyber and non-Cyber projects.
    • Providing guidance and input to business analysts, architects, and project managers to ensure that solution designs and project deployments align with security best practices and our clients policies and standards.
    • Supporting projects through formal tender processes, feasibility phases, design phases, implementation, and validation phases, including conducting risk assessments.
    • Reviewing Design documents and serving as a standing member of the Architecture Review Board and Technical Design Authority.
    • Serving as the Security touchpoint for Business Analysts and PMO projects.
    • Generating in-flight project functional and non-functional security requirements and integrating them into existing processes.
    • Assisting with the creation of security artefacts for our next phase of maturity, such as supplier assurance and exceptions processes.
    • Conducting post-implementation/pre-go-live audits of initial requirements for cloud-based projects, ensuring that agreed design proposals match the delivered solutions.
    • Providing support across all Security Team functions and assisting with additional CISO tasks as needed.

    Proven experience in:

    • Vulnerability Management
    • Penetration Testing
    • Broad experience in Security Technologies
    • Utilities Industry