Cyber Security Consultant

Salary: £? - ? per year

Requirements:

• Active SC clearance
• Sole UK National
• Experience in Cyber Security Governance, GRC, or Security Assurance
• Strong experience within SIAM / multi-supplier environments
• Good understanding of security and service management processes
• Experience with supplier onboarding, transition, or transformation programmes
• Strong stakeholder management and documentation skills
• Experience supporting compliance, audit, and assurance activities
• Knowledge of NIST CSF, Secure by Design, and NCSC guidance would be advantageous
• Defence or wider Government/high-security experience is highly desirable

Responsibilities:

• Develop supplier onboarding packs covering security processes, policies, governance, and reporting
• Align incoming suppliers with established Incident Management, Vulnerability Management, and Security Assurance processes
• Define supplier roles, responsibilities, and interaction models across the SIAM/OI environment
• Identify and manage gaps between supplier capabilities and existing security requirements
• Support Security Management Plans, compliance reporting, audit, and assurance activities
• Support Operational Readiness Reviews (ORR) and Service Commencement activities
• Produce clear, reusable security and service management documentation
• Coordinate with incoming and incumbent suppliers, transition teams, and client stakeholders
• Support operational readiness across incident management, vulnerability management, monitoring, backup/recovery, access control, and service reporting

Technologies:

• Incident Management
• Support
• Security

More:

We are recruiting an experienced Cyber Security Consultant to join a major Defence programme, supporting the onboarding of new service providers into a complex SIAM / multi-supplier environment. This is a security governance, supplier integration, and operational readiness role rather than a hands-on technical security position. The role is hybrid, based in Preston, London, or Birmingham, with 2 days per week onsite. The day rate is £570 inside IR35.

last updated 37 week of 2026