Cyber Security Assurance Specialist

3 weeks ago


West Midlands, United Kingdom Hays Full time

Role Title:
Cyber Security Assurance Specialist

Key Role Responsibilities

* Review new business proposals and provide specialist advice on security issues and implications.
* 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.
* Develop policies, standards, processes, guidelines for ensuring appropriate security standards are in place and are adhered to.
* 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.
* Lead and support product security activities, including technical reviews and assessments of product security architectures and designs across a diverse range of complex infrastructure, data and application systems.
* Ensure timely and robust incident management resolution, including major incident response coordination and management.
* Deputise for the Senior IT Security Manager as and when required.

Education, Qualifications & Training
* Achieved one or more relevant qualification / certification (i.e. CISSP, CISA, CISM

Knowledge & Experience
* Expert knowledge of security data tools, information security controls, security best practice and management strategies.
* Experience of designing control maturity tests and conducting control maturity assessments.
* 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.
* Technical knowledge and broad hands-on experience of working with security technologies such as the Microsoft XDR stack, vulnerability management tools (Nessus and Rapid 7), EDR platforms, SIEMs (Splunk / Azure Sentinel), Powershell automation etc.
* Previous exposure to enterprise networking and infrastructure technologies

Role Specific Skills & Behaviours
* Ability to work supportively and collaboratively with colleagues across Technology & transformation as well as the wider business.
* Ability to effectively coordinate and manage major incident responses.
* Ability to work under pressure and maintain customer service ethic.
* Ability to be creative.
* Ability to present complex security solutions and situations to those without technical knowledge.
* Ability to formulate effective and appropriate recommendations based on sound technical knowledge.
* Ability to confidently challenge deadlines, priorities and suggest alternative ways of achieving targets.
* Meticulous documentation skills used for service descriptions and in service/asset management tooling and knowledge bases.
* Excellent written and oral communication skills.
* Customer focused - always assessing the impact and urgency for customers as the priority.
* Able to develop the skills and competencies of others.

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