Information Security Consultant

2 months ago


Leeds, United Kingdom Headway Recruitment Full time

Our client based in North West Leeds is a global organisation specialising in Consultancy services. They are looking to hire an Information Security Consultant to join their existing Information Security team based in Leeds.

Key Duties and Responsibilities:

- Assist with security incident management and response activities
- 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
- Completing 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 company security capabilities and resilience to cyber threats
- Take a proactive role in identifying security risks, mitigations, and opportunities to strengthen company resilience to cyber-attacks and security incidents
- 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:

- At least two years hands-on experience of 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 M365 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

It is essential that you have detailed knowledge of:

- Microsoft O365 environment, Microsoft Azure
- 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 the 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 organisational skills, used to managing and prioritising own workload
- Ability to report on progress, timescales, outstanding and completed activities

We are looking for experienced information security professionals with exposure, knowledge and experience of security solutions contained within Microsoft M365.

This is a full time, office based role.

Salary c50K - 65K DOE

Headway Recruitment is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy. Headway Recruitment are an equal opportunities employer and we are committed to a policy of diversity, equality and inclusion.



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