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Cyber Security Consultant (Contract)
Location: Edinburgh, Scotland Country: UK Rate: £450 per day
Venesky-Brown's client, a public sector organisation in Edinburgh, is currently looking to recruit a Cyber Security Consultant for an initial 12 month contract with option to extend on a rate circa £450/day (Outside of IR35). This role will be based onsite however home working will be considered subject to attendance where needed.
Responsibilities:
- Be aware of the current cyber threat landscape and industry best practices and standards.
- Support initial scoping and risk assessment of a change project.
- Interpret security best practice and accreditation requirements to determine security requirements.
- Adapt existing cyber security standards and controls to fit specific change projects.
- Carry out threat modelling and risk assessments.
- Review high and low-level designs drafted by solution architects.
- Maintain a security design assessment for new services.
- Carry out basic hands-on security assessments.
- Plan and co-ordinate independent pen testing.
- Provide recommendations for stage gating and go live decisions.
- Own completion and accuracy of all security related product delivery evidence.
- Provide recommendations for SecOps processes and automation for new systems.
Essential Skills:
- Security and Risk assessment.
- In depth understanding of and experience with enterprise scale digital service provision.
- Demonstrable recent record making security contribution during the development of a new digital service.
- Ability to work well in an agile project team with internal colleagues and suppliers.
- Ability to self-start, accept ownership and see through security aspects of project start to finish.
- Ability to share knowledge and experience with colleagues and effectively hand over to SecOps.
Desirable Skills:
- Experience with SDLC (in particular .net), AI form recogniser and Azure.
- Experience managing independent testing (scope, pre-test config, triage findings).
- Experience in business change environments.
- ITIL certification.
If you would like to hear more about these opportunities please get in touch.
Posted Date: 02 May 2024 Reference: JSV-53139-2 Employment Business: Venesky-Brown Contact: Kenny McCulloch