Cyber Security Consultant
Posted 1 day ago by AGIT Consultancy
£55 Per hour
Outside
Undetermined
London Area, United Kingdom
Summary: The Cyber Security Consultant role involves working within a cross-functional security engineering team to design, build, and enhance security controls for critical digital services. The position requires hands-on engineering skills to address emerging threats and support incident response efforts while driving automation and infrastructure-as-code practices. The consultant will also influence architectural decisions and ensure risks are effectively managed. This role is focused on cloud platforms including Azure and GCP, emphasizing a proactive approach to cyber defense.
Key Responsibilities:
- Conduct threat modelling exercises to identify risks and vulnerabilities.
- Assess architectural designs, balancing risk, business value, and technical feasibility.
- Define and document security controls aligned to enterprise security standards.
- Provide governance, assurance, and security direction across multiple initiatives.
- Translate complex security concepts clearly for both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Support agile delivery teams across concurrent product initiatives.
- Define security testing requirements and assess remediation of findings.
- Contribute to the design and implementation of secure cloud and digital solutions.
- Help embed automation and Infrastructure as Code into security controls.
- Contribute to DDoS protection, bot mitigation, DNS security, vulnerability management, and threat intelligence.
- Support layer 6 & 7 defensive capabilities to stay ahead of evolving threats.
- Participate in incident analysis to strengthen long-term defensive posture.
- Work across public and private cloud platforms to deliver secure configurations and cloud-native protection.
Key Skills:
- A solid background in cyber security with a genuine interest in staying ahead of emerging threats.
- Strong understanding of DDoS, bot mitigation, and DNS protection technologies.
- Good knowledge of networking fundamentals and how security controls operate across layers.
- Experience working collaboratively with internal teams and stakeholders.
- Proven experience in cyber security within enterprise environments.
- Broad understanding of security domains including network security, endpoint security, IAM, and cloud security.
- Experience with modern architectures such as RESTful APIs and containerised microservices.
- Ability to analyse risk, challenge designs constructively, and influence secure outcomes.
- Strong stakeholder engagement and communication skills.
- Familiarity with security frameworks and standards.
- Security certifications (CISSP, CISM, CCSP, CEH, OSCP or equivalent).
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code, particularly Terraform.
- Automation and scripting skills (e.g., Python).
Salary (Rate): £55.00/hr
City: London Area
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: undetermined
IR35 Status: outside IR35
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: IT
Job Ref :- 842 | Cyber Security Consultant ( On Prem | Azure | GCP Hybrid | Outside IR35) Apply via LinkedIn or Email CV mentioning Job Ref in Subject :- HR@AGITCONSULTANCY.CO.UK
About the Role
We’re looking out for Cyber security consultant , where you’ll be part of a cross-functional security engineering team working alongside cyber specialists and platform engineers across the organization. This is a hands-on engineering role where you’ll contribute to designing, building, and improving security controls that protect critical digital services. You’ll help ensure our layer 6 and 7 defenses stay ahead of emerging threats, while also supporting incident response efforts to strengthen our future resilience. Influencing architectural decisions, and ensuring risks are understood, managed, and reduced. A key part of the role will involve driving automation and infrastructure-as-code practices (including Terraform) to modernize how we deploy and manage security solutions across cloud platforms such as Akamai, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure.
Key Responsibilities
- Security Architecture & Advisory
- Conduct threat modelling exercises (e.g., STRIDE, MITRE ATT&CK) to identify risks and vulnerabilities.
- Assess architectural designs, balancing risk, business value, and technical feasibility.
- Define and document security controls aligned to enterprise security standards.
- Provide governance, assurance, and security direction across multiple initiatives.
- Translate complex security concepts clearly for both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Engineering & Delivery
- Support agile delivery teams across concurrent product initiatives.
- Define security testing requirements and assess remediation of findings.
- Contribute to the design and implementation of secure cloud and digital solutions.
- Help embed automation and Infrastructure as Code (including Terraform) into security controls.
- Digital Edge & Cyber Defence
- Contribute to DDoS protection, bot mitigation, DNS security, vulnerability management, and threat intelligence.
- Support layer 6 & 7 defensive capabilities to stay ahead of evolving threats.
- Participate in incident analysis to strengthen long-term defensive posture.
- Work across public and private cloud platforms (e.g., Azure, GCP) to deliver secure configurations and cloud-native protection.
What We’re Looking For
We value diverse thinking and practical problem-solvers who are passionate about cyber defence. To be considered, you should demonstrate:
- A solid background in cyber security with a genuine interest in staying ahead of emerging threats
- Strong understanding of DDoS, bot mitigation, and DNS protection technologies
- Good knowledge of networking fundamentals (routing, switching, IP, network protocols, firewalls, WAF) and how security controls operate across layers
- Experience working collaboratively with internal teams and stakeholders
- Confidence in taking ownership and resolving technical challenges
- Proven experience in cyber security within enterprise environments.
- Broad understanding of security domains including:
- Network security (routing, switching, IP protocols, firewalls, WAF)
- Endpoint security
- Identity & Access Management (IAM)
- Cryptography
- Cloud security
- Experience with modern architectures such as RESTful APIs and containerised microservices.
- Strong understanding of DDoS, bot, and DNS protection mechanisms.
- Ability to analyse risk, challenge designs constructively, and influence secure outcomes.
- Comfortable working under pressure and managing competing priorities.
- Strong stakeholder engagement and communication skills.
Nice to Have
- Familiarity with security frameworks and standards such as ISO 27001, NIST, OWASP, PCI DSS, or COBIT.
- Security certifications (CISSP, CISM, CCSP, CEH, OSCP or equivalent).
- Experience with cloud security across Azure, GCP, or hybrid environments.
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code, particularly Terraform
- Automation and scripting skills (e.g., Python).
- Exposure to CDN/WAF platforms and cloud-native security tooling.
- Automation and scripting experience (Python or similar)
- Understanding of encryption, virtualisation, and containerisation technologies