Cyber Security Specialist
Summary: The Cybersecurity Specialist role requires an experienced professional with a strong technical background in Application Security, DevSecOps, and AI security. The candidate will focus on delivering security transformation initiatives and managing stakeholder relationships within large technology teams. The position emphasizes the importance of training, change management, and fostering a security culture. Strong technical expertise and relationship-building skills are essential for success in this role.
Key Responsibilities:
- Build strong relationships and manage stakeholders to align multiple parties toward shared outcomes.
- Demonstrate technical expertise in Application Security, Secure SDLC, DevSecOps, and threat modelling.
- Understand AI and Generative AI engineering usage, including cybersecurity risks and emerging threats.
- Design and deliver transformational security enablement programmes, including training and change engagement.
- Create needs-based, measurable solutions to reduce cybersecurity risks.
- Enable and influence technologists at scale with demonstrable results.
- Manage or integrate third-party training and enablement vendors and platforms.
- Maintain an excellent understanding of cybersecurity concepts and principles.
- Identify security vulnerabilities and flaws across different programming languages.
- Stay informed about emerging technologies and associated cybersecurity threats, particularly related to AI tool deployment.
Key Skills:
- Strong relationship-building and stakeholder management skills.
- Technical expertise in Application Security, Secure SDLC, and DevSecOps.
- Knowledge of AI and Generative AI cybersecurity risks.
- Experience in designing and delivering security enablement programmes.
- Strong design-thinking capability for creating measurable solutions.
- Proven ability to influence technologists at scale.
- Experience with third-party training and enablement vendors.
- Excellent understanding of cybersecurity concepts and principles.
- Understanding of security vulnerabilities across programming languages.
- Knowledge of emerging technologies and cybersecurity threats.
Salary (Rate): undetermined
City: Sheffield
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: undetermined
IR35 Status: undetermined
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: IT
We are looking for an experienced Cybersecurity Specialist with a strong technical background in Application Security, DevSecOps, AI/Generative AI security, and stakeholder management. The ideal candidate will have an engineering-focused mindset with experience delivering security transformation, enablement programmes, training, change management, and security culture initiatives across large technology teams.
Key Responsibilities & Requirements
- Strong relationship-building, stakeholder management, and persuasion skills, with proven experience aligning multiple stakeholders toward shared outcomes.
- Strong technical expertise in Application Security, Secure SDLC, DevSecOps, threat modelling, and cybersecurity controls.
- Good working knowledge of AI and Generative AI engineering usage, including associated cybersecurity risks and emerging threats.
- Experience designing and delivering transformational security enablement programmes, including training, change engagement, security culture, and behavioural change initiatives.
- Strong design-thinking capability with experience creating needs-based, measurable solutions that materially reduce cybersecurity risks.
- Proven experience enabling and influencing technologists at scale, with demonstrable results.
- Experience managing or integrating third-party training and enablement vendors and platforms is desirable.
- Excellent understanding of cybersecurity concepts and principles.
- Strong understanding of security vulnerabilities and flaws across different programming languages.
- Good understanding of emerging technologies and associated cybersecurity threats, particularly those related to AI tool deployment.
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