Cyber Security Assurance Consultant - DV Cleared

Rate: £400 a day (Inside IR35)

Location: Basingstoke (Hybrid)

Duration: Initially 6 months

Clearance: DV Clearance required

The company:

Global IT Consultancy delivering digital transformation to Defence and National Security end clients.

Overview:

As Security Assurance Consultant is part of the Security Assurance Team (SAT), providing risk management and assurance of programme artefacts.

Responsibilities and Tasks

• Support delivery of secure Releases and Features aligned with the relevant legacy or NIST assurance processes through Security Assurance stories agreed with nominated team Scrum Master
• Create security assurance case for releases, including risk assessments and mitigations for identified defects and vulnerabilities
• Liaise with Testers, Security Architects and Engineers to ensure smooth assurance process and timely delivery of contribution to assurance cases.
• Define Penetration Test and IT Health Check (ITHC) scope for relevant team
• Liaise with Joint Design Team on scope and submission of assurance case
• Keep Security Lead informed of progress within team and of any potential conflicts where Security Assurance issues may impede delivery
• Provide security approval for service support activities, including IMPEX to various systems
• Conduct daily checks (as part of rota) as required on nominated systems
• Support incident investigation and security training and briefings
• Support development of relevant security documentation; including RMADS, CoCo, RAR, SSP, POAM, OSMP (including SyOps).

Knowledge, Experience and Capabilities

• Cyber Security Assurance
• ISO27001
• NIST 800-53 series
• MOD Secure by Design
• Information assurance
• Risk management
• High quality of written and verbal communication skills
• Experience of working in Secure environments (Highly desirable)
• Experience in Safe Agile methods (Desirable)