Senior Consultant – Risk and Governance

Company: Leonardo SpA
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Location: Canon's Marsh
Job Description:

Salary Range

£44,171 – £63,000

Location & Contract

Primary location: Bristol Coldharbour Lane. Additional locations: Edinburgh, Lincoln, Luton, Newcastle, Southampton. Contract type: Permanent. Hybrid Working: Hybrid.

Role Overview

Leonardo UK is seeking a Senior Cyber Consultant to join the Cyber & Security Solutions Division. The role focuses on helping customers identify, assess, treat and monitor security risks in line with their objectives, and may include defining and implementing security strategies, producing policies, processes and management plans.

Responsibilities

  • Relate – Build intimacy with customers by actively listening and empathising.
  • Understand – Define potential solutions with limited information based on experience and technical knowledge.
  • Assess – Frame threats and security concepts through a risk language to link back to objectives.
  • Treat – Define proportionate security solutions across people, process and technology to enable customers to achieve objectives.
  • Assure – Perform and implement assessments against criteria spanning people, process and technology in regulated industries.
  • Develop – Build a viable offering as part of Leonardo’s business winning process and help in the technical development of products.

What you’ll bring – Skills

Core consulting skills – building client relations, adaptability to changing schedules, reliability and quality of task delivery, flexibility in working hours and locations, team player.

Qualifications

At least one recognized professional certification in Cyber Security such as Sec+, CISMP, and CCNA Security.

Knowledge & Experience

  • Experience of indirectly managing project delivery and associated metrics such as time, cost and quality.
  • Experience of and ability to manage multiple stakeholders and their needs with empathy, finding an appropriate balance of listening and speaking.
  • An ambitious and creative drive to help safeguard UK national infrastructure and become a recognized cyber expert.
  • Varied experience in the development and mentoring of junior team members.
  • Confident understanding of risk management and general best practice with knowledge of best practice standards such as NIST SP800-37, 30 and ISO-31000, 27005.
  • Varied experience of assessing risk and building or evolving risk management framework components such as measurement criteria.
  • Good ability to articulate abstract risk-based concepts and approaches and its relationship to threat and vulnerability.
  • Varied experience of assessing, defining and implementing security governance frameworks.
  • A confident understanding of TCP/IP based networking concepts across the OSI model layer as well as the common protocols and their risks.

Security Clearance

Pre-employment screening in line with UK Government’s Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS). Additional checks (National Security Vetting (NSV)) may apply, including SC or DV.

Benefits

  • Time to Recharge – Enjoy generous leave with up to 12 additional flexi-days each year.
  • Secure your Future – Benefit from our award-winning pension scheme with up to 15% employer contribution.
  • Your Wellbeing Matters – Free access to mental health support, financial advice, and employee-led networks championing inclusion and diversity.
  • Rewarding Performance – Eligible for bonus scheme at management level and below.
  • Never Stop Learning – Free access to 4,000+ online courses via Coursera and LinkedIn Learning.
  • Refer a friend – Receive a financial reward through our referral programme.
  • Tailored Perks – Spend up to £500 annually on flexible benefits including private healthcare, dental, family cover, tech & lifestyle discounts, gym memberships and more.
  • Flexible working – Flexible hours with hybrid working options.

Inclusive Workplace

Leonardo is committed to building an inclusive, accessible, and welcoming workplace. We believe that a diverse workforce sparks creativity, drives innovation, and leads to better outcomes for our people and our customers. If you have accessibility requirements to support you during the recruitment process, just let us know.

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Posted: June 14th, 2026