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Cyber Security Assurance Specialist

  • Location: New Malden
  • Salary: Up to £83.20 per hour per hour
  • Job Type:Contract

Posted 20 days ago

  • Sector: Defence & Aerospace, Engineering
  • Contact: Lauren Morley
  • Contact Email: l.morley@jamrecruitment.co.uk
  • Duration: 6 Months
  • Start Date: asap
  • Client: BAE Systems
  • Expiry Date: 07 November 2024
  • Job Ref: BBBH83344_1727358411

Cyber Security Assurance Specialist

Scotstoun, New Malden or Portsmouth based (Hybrid)

£83.20 an hour Umbrella OR £73.31 PAYE Inside IR35

6 Month Contract initially.



This is a great opportunity to work within one of the UK's leading Defence organisations based In either Scotstoun, New Malden or Portsmouth. 1-2 days per week on site but may be required more project and work dependant.

Core duties:-

  • Cyber Security gap analysis
  • Cyber assessment / auditing
  • Working with system owners, business owners and being able to articulate cyber security requirements
  • Working on a volume of different systems - understanding different IT and OT technologies to be able to effectively audit different components
  • Experience with defence, government, MOD or somewhere highly regulated like finance, medical etc.
  • Experience with standards such as NIST, ISO27001, Cyber Essentials
  • Deliver cyber assurance services for the Naval Ships business, covering Enterprise Applications and Operational Technologies
  • Risk Assessment of gaps
  • Deliver documentation to demonstrate compliance to internal and external stakeholders
  • Assessment and provision of control effectiveness in managing Cyber security risk
  • Work with security architecture / technical input into the development of secure solutions
  • Support development of strategy and continual service improvement for the Cyber Assurance function
  • Act as a subject matter expert regarding Cyber Assurance activities for the wider organisation
  • Interviews will be WebEx

Knowledge, Skills and Qualifications:-

  • Industry knowledge of industry cyber security standards and/or knowledge of government cyber security standards
  • Cyber Assurance / Assessment / Auditing experience of IT Systems
  • Knowledge of IT application, infrastructure and security technologies
  • Proactively engage with System owners to assess their systems
  • Ability to interpret system compliance with IT Security Standard
  • Risk management experience
  • Ability to work autonomously and manage workload and priorities based on demand from multiple projects
  • CISSP/CISM/CRISC
  • ISO27001 Lead Auditor
  • Cyber Essentials scheme (Ideally would be looking for a lead assessor)
  • Any other equivalent

For more information please contact Lauren Morley at JAM Recruitment or click apply.