Senior Technical Advisor

Robert Walters

Hi All, I’m currently recruiting a Senior Technical Advisor based in the City of London. We’re looking for someone who is an expert in the Telecommunications and can apply their skills of Architecture, Business Continuity or Threat Intelligence to the industry and who is eligible for security clearance.

Please click on the job title below to view the Job Description and apply to it if you have Telecommunications experience!

Key Experience needed for the Senior Technical Advisor:

• Radio Access Network skills in particularly those with 5G and OpenRAN
• Business Continuity, someone with compliance skills so acts and works with the business to ensure that all elements of a CP has understood the criticality of their systems and has plans in place to respond and recover to any outage in line with their criticality.
• Monitoring and Analysis, someone who has worked in a monitoring analyst role but not 1st line, more involved with 3rd line and threat hunting and thus likely have a good understanding of the CPs networks and systems

Key Responsibilities for the Senior Technical Advisor:

• The experienced Senior Technical Advisor must have an understanding of conducting security assurance assessments and audits and managing remediation plans, within a Telecommunications Provider(mobile, fixed, internet).
• Understanding of the types of threat actors that would target the regulated sector and the cyber security threats they present.
• Experience with evaluating technical vulnerabilities and identifying reasonable and appropriate control measures Knowledge of vendor risk assessment and evaluation.
• Experience in fixed and mobile signalling (GSM through to 5G) and virtualisation from a telecoms perspective.
• Experience across all cyber security risk management domains (strategy; governance and risk management; protection, detection, response, recovery and resumption of services; situational awareness; testing).
• Understanding of fixed and mobile architectures, standards and GSMA deployment guidance.
• Experience in practical application of best practice as it pertains to the technology under review.
• Maintaining an ongoing awareness and understanding of current and emerging telecoms technologies, including via: ongoing training, industry liaison and identifying, commissioning and managing specific external technical research projects
• Knowledge and understanding of human and physical security aspects of telecoms security, particularly where they form part of the threat, or mitigation.

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