Security Assurance Specialist - Manchester

We are looking for an Security Assurance Specialist for a client of ours who are a major player behind the smart meter rollout in the UK, building secure infrastructure to support the mass rollout of smart meters across the country. The role is responsible for working with project teams, including architects, analysts, technical designers and business users to ensure that projects are delivered securely, protecting customer, company and employee data and ensuring compliance with the Information Security policies and standards.

Responsibilities:

• Provide end to end engagement on a wide range of business projects, ensuring security is built in and customer, company, and employee data is protected.
• Liaise with the Security Architects and wider team to provide technical requirements to ensure projects deliver secure solutions
• Work with the Security Business Partners to scope, arrange and support penetration testing and vulnerability testing and track remediation to a close
• Articulate risk in technical and non-technical terminology so that it can be interpreted by Information Technology and business individuals

Skills:

• Recognised qualifications include CISSP, CISM, CISA or equivalent
• ISO 27001 Lead Auditor / Lead Implementor or similar qualification
• Familiarity with the NIST Cybersecurity Framework is beneficial.
• Formal qualification in Information Security domain or equivalent experience desirable
• Cloud Security Controls

Location Manchester or London (hybrid)
Start Date: ASAP
Rate: £700 - £750pd (Inside IR35)

As a Security Assurance Specialist, you ll join a business with a genuinely strong reputation both externally in the market and as an employee proposition.

Security Assurance Specialist