Summary: The Cybersecurity Specialist role in Sheffield focuses on building strong relationships and aligning stakeholders to achieve shared outcomes in cybersecurity. The position requires a strong technical background in application security and DevSecOps, along with knowledge of AI and associated cyber risks. The candidate should have experience in enabling technologists and managing third-party training vendors. A design thinking capability to create measurable solutions that reduce risk is also essential.
Key Responsibilities:
- Build strong relationships and persuade stakeholders to deliver shared outcomes.
- Utilize a strong technical background in application security and DevSecOps.
- Demonstrate knowledge of AI and associated cyber risks.
- Deliver transformational enablement programs and training.
- Engage in culture and behavior change initiatives.
- Create needs-based solutions that measurably reduce risk.
- Enable technologists at scale with demonstrable results.
- Manage or integrate third-party training enablement vendors and platforms.
- Understand security concepts, principles, and programming language flaws.
- Stay informed about emerging technologies and corresponding security threats.
Key Skills:
- AI/Generative AI knowledge.
- Application Security expertise (frameworks, threat modeling, Secure SDLC, DevSecOps).
- Stakeholder Management skills.
- Strong relationship building and persuasion skills.
- Experience in transformational enablement programs.
- Design thinking capability.
- Understanding of security concepts and principles.
- Knowledge of security flaws across programming languages.
- Understanding of emerging technologies and security threats.
Salary (Rate): undetermined
City: Sheffield
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: undetermined
IR35 Status: inside IR35
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: IT
Role: Cybersecurity Specialist
Location: Sheffield
Inside Ir35
Job Description
Strong relationship building and persuasion skills proven ability to align multiple stakeholders to deliver a shared outcome.
Strong technical background in application security DevSecOps and/or other cyber controls plus credible working knowledge of AI /GenAI engineering usage and associated cyber risks.
Engineer at heart mindset with demonstrated experience stepping out of practitioner work to deliver transformational enablement programmes training change engagement culture behavior change.
Design thinking capability creates needs based solutions that are measurable and materially reduce risk.
Experience enabling technologists at scale with demonstrable results.
Ideally experience managing or integrating third party training enablement vendors and platforms.
Excellent understanding of security concepts and principles good understanding of security flaws across programming languages.
Understanding of emerging technologies and corresponding security threats explicitly relevant here given AI tool deployment.
Mandatory Skills: AI/Generative AI, Application Security (application security framework/ threat modelling/ Secure SDLC/ DevSecOps/Application Security Architecture Review), Stakeholder Management.