Cyber Security Assurance Specialist

Position : Cyber Security Assurance Specialist

Role : Permanent

Location : Birmingham (Hybrid)

Act as Cyber Security Assurance support for the Team, providing management of risk in a pragmatic and cost-effective manner to ensure stakeholder confidence.

Requirements:

• Expert knowledge of security data tools, information security controls, security best practice and management strategies.

• Experience of designing control maturity tests and conducting control maturity assessments.

• Experience of overseeing and leading remediation of security assessments, technical testing, and vulnerability analysis including Cyber Essentials, Cyber Essentials Plus, and NIST CSF.

• Experience in incident response and overseeing improvement actions such as development and tuning of security monitoring, alerting, and reporting.

• Technical knowledge and broad hands-on experience of working with security technologies such as the Microsoft XDR stack, vulnerability management tools (Nessus and Rapid 7), EDR platforms, SIEMs (Splunk / Azure Sentinel), Powershell automation etc.

• Previous exposure to enterprise networking and infrastructure technologies.