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Cyber Security Assurance Specialist

  • Location: Renfrewshire
  • Salary: Up to £83.20 per hour per hour
  • Job Type:Permanent

Posted 4 days ago

  • Sector: Defence & Aerospace, Engineering, IT
  • Contact: Lauren Morley
  • Contact Email: l.morley@jamrecruitment.co.uk
  • Duration: 6 Months
  • Start Date: ASAP
  • Client: BAE Systems
  • Expiry Date: 28 January 2025
  • Job Ref: BBBH83705_1734442216

Cyber Security Assurance Specialist

Scotstoun Based

£83.20 an hour Umbrella OR £73.31 PAYE Inside IR35

6 Month Contract initially.

This role can be based out of Scotstoun, Govan or New Malden with 1-2 days per week on site.


A brief summary of the role:-
- Cyber Security gap analysis
- Cyber assessment / auditing
- Working with system owners, business owners and being able to articulate cyber security requirements
- orking on a volume of different systems â€" 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

Knowledge:
- 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

Skills:
- 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

Qualifications:
- 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.