Cyber Security Assurance Consultant - DV Cleared
Posted 5 days ago by CBSbutler Holdings Limited trading as CBSbutler
£400 Per day
Inside
Hybrid
Basingstoke, Hampshire
Summary: The Cyber Security Assurance Consultant role involves providing risk management and assurance for program artifacts within a Security Assurance Team. The consultant will support secure releases and features, create security assurance cases, and liaise with various stakeholders to ensure timely delivery. The position requires DV clearance and is based in Basingstoke with a hybrid working arrangement. The role is classified as inside IR35 and offers a daily rate of £400.
Key Responsibilities:
- Support delivery of secure Releases and Features aligned with relevant assurance processes.
- Create security assurance case for releases, including risk assessments and mitigations.
- Liaise with Testers, Security Architects, and Engineers for smooth assurance processes.
- Define Penetration Test and IT Health Check (ITHC) scope.
- Liaise with Joint Design Team on assurance case submissions.
- Keep Security Lead informed of team progress and potential conflicts.
- Provide security approval for service support activities.
- Conduct daily checks on nominated systems.
- Support incident investigation and security training.
- Develop relevant security documentation.
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 in Secure environments (Highly desirable)
- Experience in Safe Agile methods (Desirable)
Salary (Rate): £400/day
City: Basingstoke
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: hybrid
IR35 Status: inside IR35
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: IT
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)