Junior Cyber Security Consultant

**With our continued success, combined with ambitious growth plans, this is a very exciting time for a dedicated Junior Cyber Security Consultant to join our expanding team.**:
**About the Role**:
As a Junior Cyber Security Consultant at Akita, you will:

- Work within the security team to provide cyber security advice and guidance, heavily focused on Microsoft 365 Cloud security solutions.
- Assist in conducting cyber security & compliance assessments against recognised best practice and industry standards, as appropriate to the organisation.
- Support the team in carrying out gap analysis on client systems, to identify current security posture verses current security best practices.
- Act as the first point of escalation for security related incidents within the helpdesk.
- Respond, report and escalate on security related alerts generated from various monitoring solutions.
- Support in the delivery of “hands-on” cyber security solutions within the business.
- Work collaboratively with the Technical and Project teams to monitor and respond to client cyber security incidents, and assist with resolution.
- Fulfil any other such reasonable duties as required in line with business needs.

**Core Skills**:

- Knowledge of managing MS365 Cloud security solutions (Endpoint, Azure, defender).
- A solid understanding of information risk, compliance, and governance.
- Knowledge in IAM, MFA, MDM and DLP technologies.

**Desirable Skills & Experience**:

- Knowledge of security standards and frameworks. Cyber Essentials, GDPR, ISO27001/9001, NIST, CIS.
- Security/Cyber Related Degree.
- Experience working at an MSP in a technical capacity.

**Person Specification**:

- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- High standards of customer service
- A keen level of attention to detail
- Strong analytics skills.

**Salary**:
Highly competitive, dependent on qualifications and skills

**Start date**:
ASAP

**Contract type**:
Permanent

**Hours**:
42.5 per week

**Shift times**:
08:45 - 17:15 hours

**Holiday entitlement**:
**Sick pay**:
Commencing after 6 months continuous employment (terms apply)