Security Consultant – H&PS
Location: Flexible: UK (With Client Travel)
Career Level: Consultant
Salary: Competitive Salary & Package (Dependent on Experience)
Security clearance requirement: BPSS and SC security clearance, 5 years continuous UK address history, no 30 consecutive days outside UK. Full British Nationality required.
Job Overview
We are a leading provider of data engineering, delivering innovative projects across the UK health, public sector, defence, and central government sectors. As a security consultant, you will collaborate with clients to design secure solutions, drive transformation, and influence large and complex IT projects.
Responsibilities
- Design security architectures for large digital transformational programmes.
- Provide advisory for complex transformation programmes shaping the UK.
- Advise on regulatory compliance (ISO 27001, NIST, GDPR, PCI‑DSS).
- Communicate secure design solutions and IT risk mitigation strategies to stakeholders.
- Solve challenging security problems via research and innovation.
- Identify security vulnerabilities in system architectures and articulate them using risk terminology.
Qualifications
- Strong understanding of cybersecurity principles and risk management.
- Experience applying security technologies to architectures and solution designs (Privilege Access Management, SSO, IDAM, network security, encryption).
- Understanding of IT infrastructure, technical concepts, and design methodologies.
- Knowledge of threat modelling and reference architecture development.
- Ability to learn and adapt quickly.
- Preferred: hands‑on experience in network and/or cloud security.
- Preferably hold SABSA/CISSP or similar certification.
- Preferred current Government Security Clearance (SC, DV, etc.) or ability to gain clearance.
- Passion for improving the UK public sector security posture.
Benefits
Competitive basic salary, 30 days vacation per year, private medical insurance, and 3 extra days leave per year for charitable work.
Locations
- London
- Birmingham
- Edinburgh
- Manchester
Equal Employment Opportunity Statement
All employment decisions shall be made without regard to age, race, creed, colour, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, disability status, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, citizenship status or any other basis as protected by federal, state, or local law.
Job candidates will not be obligated to disclose sealed or expunged records of conviction or arrest as part of the hiring process.
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Location: Flexible: UK (With Client Travel)
Career Level: Consultant
Salary: Competitive Salary & Package (Dependent on Experience)
Security clearance requirement: BPSS and SC security clearance, 5 years continuous UK address history, no 30 consecutive days outside UK. Full British Nationality required.
Job Overview
We are a leading provider of data engineering, delivering innovative projects across the UK health, public sector, defence, and central government sectors. As a security consultant, you will collaborate with clients to design secure solutions, drive transformation, and influence large and complex IT projects.
Responsibilities
- Design security architectures for large digital transformational programmes.
- Provide advisory for complex transformation programmes shaping the UK.
- Advise on regulatory compliance (ISO 27001, NIST, GDPR, PCI‑DSS).
- Communicate secure design solutions and IT risk mitigation strategies to stakeholders.
- Solve challenging security problems via research and innovation.
- Identify security vulnerabilities in system architectures and articulate them using risk terminology.
Qualifications
- Strong understanding of cybersecurity principles and risk management.
- Experience applying security technologies to architectures and solution designs (Privilege Access Management, SSO, IDAM, network security, encryption).
- Understanding of IT infrastructure, technical concepts, and design methodologies.
- Knowledge of threat modelling and reference architecture development.
- Ability to learn and adapt quickly.
- Preferred: hands‑on experience in network and/or cloud security.
- Preferably hold SABSA/CISSP or similar certification.
- Preferred current Government Security Clearance (SC, DV, etc.) or ability to gain clearance.
- Passion for improving the UK public sector security posture.
Benefits
Competitive basic salary, 30 days vacation per year, private medical insurance, and 3 extra days leave per year for charitable work.
Locations
- London
- Birmingham
- Edinburgh
- Manchester
Equal Employment Opportunity Statement
All employment decisions shall be made without regard to age, race, creed, colour, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, disability status, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, citizenship status or any other basis as protected by federal, state, or local law.
Job candidates will not be obligated to disclose sealed or expunged records of conviction or arrest as part of the hiring process.
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