Cyber Security Assurance Consultant - DV Cleared

Summary: The Cyber Security Assurance Consultant role involves providing risk management and assurance for program artifacts as part of the Security Assurance Team. The position requires DV Clearance and focuses on delivering secure releases and features while collaborating with various stakeholders. The consultant will also be responsible for creating security assurance cases and conducting daily checks on nominated systems. This is a hybrid role based in Basingstoke with an initial duration of six months.

Key Responsibilities:

• 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).

Key Skills:

• 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)

Salary (Rate): £400 daily

City: Basingstoke

Country: United Kingdom

Working Arrangements: hybrid

IR35 Status: inside IR35

Seniority Level: undetermined

Industry: IT