Cyber Security Specialist

Selly Park, Birmingham
Niyaa People Ltd
We are looking for a Cyber Security Specialist to join the team of a well-established organisation on a permanent basis in the heart of Birmingham. This role is offering hybrid working, career progression and a great opportunity to gain more experience in this sector.

Cyber Security Specialist
Mon- Fri
Birmingham based (hybrid working)
Permanent
63000k per annum

The key responsibilities of this Cyber Security Specialist role are:

• Set policies, standards and guidelines for how the organisation conducts security operations across the business and ensures alignment.
• Develop & establish supplier chain security agreements / contracts / questionnaires and manage completion and disengagement.
• Lead reviews of governance practices with appropriate and sufficient independence from management activity.
• Ensure architectural security principles are applied during project design to reduce risk. Drives adoption and adherence to policy, standards and guidelines.
• Design, architect and deliver security aspects within projects and provide expert assurance for secure implementation.
• Technical knowledge and broad hands-on experience of working with security technologies such as the Microsoft XDR stack (Microsoft Defender), vulnerability management tools (Nessus and Rapid 7), SIEMs (Azure Sentinel), Powershell automation etc.
• Experience of overseeing and leading remediation of security assessments, technical testing, and vulnerability analysis including Cyber Essentials, Cyber Essentials Plus, and NIST CSF.
• Experience in incident response and overseeing improvement actions such as development and tuning of security monitoring, alerting, and reporting.

The benefits of this Cyber Security Specialist role are:

• 24 days holiday plus bank holidays
• Employment discount schemes on retail brands/ gym memberships
• Cycle to work scheme
• Career progression opportunities
• Hybrid working ( 3x days onsite, 2x work from home)

We would be really interested in speaking to anyone who has been a Cyber security officer, IT Security specialist, IT security consultant.

If this Cyber Security Specialist role is of interest, please apply directly to this advert or contact (url removed)