IT Information Security Consultant

Leeds, Yorkshire
Reed

Job Title: Information Security Consultant

Job Description:

My client is looking to hire an Information Security Consultant to join their existing Information Security team. The successful candidate will work with the Information Security team to provide advice and guidance on IT security and further develop IT policies and processes across a multi-region infrastructure consisting of 8300+ staff and 100+ sites. As a member of the IT Security team, you will review all aspects of the IT environment and its components.

This role shall be responsible for supporting and maintaining enterprise-wide solutions. The successful candidate will be required to proactively improve and provide advice and guidance on information security matters. SOX control responsibilities may be part of this role, which are to be adhered to where applicable.

Key Duties and Responsibilities:

• Assist with security incident management and response activities.
• Provide general day-to-day support on managing and responding to security alerts from systems and end users.
• Perform daily, weekly, and monthly security checks, reconciliation and compliance checks and investigate exceptions.
• Complete client security requirement questionnaires and support the bidding process.
• Identify and raise awareness of security risks.
• Develop and enhance security policies, processes, procedures, and technical controls to strengthen the company’s security capabilities and resilience to cyber threats.
• Take a proactive role in identifying security risks, mitigations, and opportunities to strengthen the company’s resilience to cyber-attacks and security incidents.
• Participate in the design and implementation of systems and applications.
• Develop user and technical training guides.
• Maintain and manage the IT Risk register.
• Test DR plans and capabilities to ensure they work as designed, identifying gaps and lessons learnt and work with the business to drive continual development and enhancement.

Technical Requirements:

• Two years of hands-on experience in security and/or infrastructure within an enterprise environment.
• Exposure to enterprise information security standards including Cyber Essentials, ISO 27001, 27002, etc., Data Protection Act, and the General Data Protection Regulation.
• Microsoft O365 Security solutions; Networking; Security operations; Vulnerability Management; Security Auditing.
• Good understanding of security testing principles, including experience of vulnerability scanning, identifying, resolving, and reporting risks.
• Experience of formal document creation, such as the creation of reports or procedures.

Detailed knowledge of:

• Microsoft O365 environment.
• Threat Intelligence analysis and best practice.
• Security Incident Response processes, procedures, and best practices.
• Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity principles.
• Event and log analysis.

Core Behavioural Skills:

• Confident individual with good interpersonal skills, able to deal with people at all levels and communicate to users in a clear, non-technical language.
• Team-player.
• Analytically minded, able to break down and understand information.
• Must be comfortable with working in a fast-moving, dynamic environment.
• Strongly customer-focused, used to providing support to demanding users.
• Good organizational skills, used to managing and prioritizing own workload.
• Ability to report on progress, timescales, outstanding and completed activities.