Senior Cyber Security Consultant 188993

**Come and join the Littlefish team**
**Work location: Remote**
Here at Littlefish, we look for people who can make a real difference and become a giant slayer. As the world around us continues to change, we look for people who grab that change with optimism and excitement. These are the passionate and high performing people who enjoy and thrive on thinking outside the box.
Our current employees are the giant slayers who have made Littlefish who we are today, and you will be the future employees who continue to add the drive, passion, and add to our skills and experience as we see Littlefish grow.
So, if this is ticking your boxes and you are excited at the thought of working with creative, passionate, energetic, friendly people
- we would love to hear from you.

**The role**:
Littlefish are looking for an experienced Senior Cyber Security Consultant who will be responsible for delivering security strategy and services to a variety of clients. Working as vCISO within clients, and engaging with senior stakeholders, the role involves scoping, defining, and delivering a range of security assessments, analyses, strategies, and policies. The overall aim is to help clients on a journey to security maturity across services, governance, risk, and compliance.

**What you’ll be getting up to on a day-to-day basis**:

- Provide strategic and operational consultancy to customers as a virtual CISO.
- Undertake risk assessments, reviews, and gap analyses against industry security standards (Cyber Essentials, ISO27001, NIST, CIS 18controls) and provide practical risk remediation recommendations.
- Support customers in achieving their strategic security objectives.
- Ensure the appropriate delivery of cyber services to customers and that appropriate methodologies are followed within agreed time frames.
- Chair Information Security Forums and Working Groups.
- Contribute to the definition of new cyber security services including service schedules and commercials to ensure that they reflect current industry best practice, needs and trends and remain aligned to customer requirements and expectations.
- Identify additional business opportunities within the current client base.
- Attend client meetings and input to bids, proposals and presentations to existing and potential clients when required.
- Production of documentation as required and provide peer reviews of HLD, LLD and another project documentation.
- Work with internal and external stakeholders to understand business requirements and provide input to the design of secure technical solutions.
- Provide advice and guidance on major cyber incident response and readiness,
- Collaborate with service delivery managers, operational teams and senior stakeholders.
- Work with sales, solutions and operational functional heads to define and build out new capabilities.
- Mentoring and coaching of colleagues within and outside of the security team
- Assist customers with audit remediation activities and continuous service improvement in relation to security.
- Provide and support end user education and awareness programmes in cyber security. Stay appraised of industry best practice and where applicable introduce as part of continuous improvement.

**What will ensure your CV stands out from the crowd?**
- Strong consulting background in taking customers through a cyber-security maturity journey.
- Ability to build relationships with senior stakeholders at C-Level gaining trust and confidence from customers.
- Provide input to and/or craft specialist points of view for the market and at industry events.
- A holistic view of cyber security whilst able to drill down into specific domains.
- A broad understanding of information security methodologies, best practice, and industry standards such as ISO27001, Cyber Essentials, PCI-DSS, COBIT, GDPR, and ITIL.
- Can demonstrate IT related problem-solving skills.
- Prioritises tasks to achieve SLA’s, KPIs and contractual commitments, navigates the organisation as needed to ensure targets are achieved to the best of their ability.
- Ability to clearly articulate cyber security against business outcomes.
- Client facing experience, excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Manages customer’s expectations effectively and can explain highly complex technical issues in everyday terms.
- Flexible and adaptable to changing environments.
- A collaborative working style and evidence of being a team player.
- Demonstrates mutual respect for own and other team members.
- Willingness to undertake:

- Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS) pre-employment checks
- Security Clearance (SC)

**What can we offer you?**
- Competitive salary
- 25 days holiday plus public & bank holidays
- Company pension scheme
- Through our one-of-a-kind training programme, the Littlefish Academy, you can increase your earnings by £4,500. The Littlefish Academy is a structured learning and development program that gives you the opportunity to improve yo