Information Security Consultant

3 weeks ago

Reading, United Kingdom Project People Full time

**Role: CERT Consultant / Information Security Consultant**

**Type: Permanent**

**Location: Reading (Hybrid)**

We have an exciting opportunity with one of our telecom clients in Reading for the CERT Consultant role.

**Role Purpose**:

- Provide oversight and governance of our Security Operations Centre (SOC) to assure operational effectiveness to identify and detect security threats, coordinating an effective rapid response and recovery.
- Responsible for Vulnerability / Threat Management and Security Critical Incident Response
- Establish, monitor, evaluate and report in a professional manner; clearly highlighting the current state of Security Operations and any associated risks
- Responsible for the tactical management of cyber security incidents; the direction of response activities (in accordance with NIST SP800 60 R2); including the supervision of Cyber Security Analysts.
- Provide support in proactive and effective oversight (and where appropriate challenge) of the technology and security risk management frameworks, methodologies, processes, assurance, remediation and reporting activities across the company.

**Responsibilities Include**:

- Effective governance of external partners and internal teams to deliver and assure Security Operations services to the business
- Effective governance of the Vulnerability Management programme
- Effective governance of Threat Management and Security Incident Response capabilities
- Lead appropriate and focussed Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI) services
- Lead and assure effective intelligence led Threat Hunting capability
- Lead and assure effective cyber threat detection capability
- Develop and contribute to documentation required by Security Operations functions and capabilities
- Support the Security Operation Lead in technical and strategical decision making

**Experience Required**:

- Must have at least 5 years’ experience working in cyber security operations.
- Must have practical experience of working in a security incident response team and leading the technical response to cyber security incidents and be able to act as the incident manager.
- Must have a have experience in Vulnerability / Threat management including threat intelligence and threat hunting.
- Must have good written and oral communication skills, including incident reporting and stakeholder management.
- Must have experience in creating and documenting processes (processes, procedures, playbooks etc).
- Must have experience working at pace within a complex operational environment / large enterprise network.
- Must have the ability to develop use cases / detections based on frameworks such as MITRE ATT&CK.
- Responsible for mentoring cyber security analysts to develop, improve skills and knowledge.
- Security related certifications are desirable, particularly blue team certs such as SANS / GIAC.
- Understanding of cyber security standards and frameworks (ISO27001, NIST, SANS, OWASP etc).
- Scripting knowledge would be an advantage including PowerShell, Python, and Bash etc.
- Up-to-date knowledge of current exploits, vulnerabilities, threats, and security analysis techniques.
- Knowledge of TCP/IP, network protocols, OSI model, routing and switching and packet analysis tools.
- Experience of conducting deep level investigation and analysis, such as malware reverse engineering, using different toolsets is desirable.
- Understanding of various operating systems, including Windows and Unix.
- Knowledge of penetration testing processes and techniques is desirable.
- Working knowledge of one or more SIEM solutions.

**Job Types**: Full-time, Permanent

Schedule:

- 8 hour shift

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