Cyber Solutions Consultant

Direct Line Group Careers; Bristol; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A major insurance provider is seeking a Cyber Security Solutions Consultant to join their Security Design team. The role, available in a hybrid setup in London/Bristol, involves providing security consultancy and ensuring solutions are secure and resilient. Candidates should have a strong background in cyber security and the ability to influence various stakeholders. The position includes excellent benefits like a 9% pension contribution and generous holiday allowances.

Benefits

9% employer contributed pension

Annual company bonus up to 10%

Generous holiday allowance

50% off insurance products

Health and dental insurance options

EV car leasing scheme

Employee discounts and cashback

Qualifications

• Experience in cyber security privacy and resilience controls, threat modelling, risk management, and data protection.
• Ability to influence stakeholders at various levels.
• Keen technology and resilience focus with passion for new work trends.
• Self-starter who can prioritize work across multiple workstreams.
• Experience of security controls frameworks like ISO 27001, NIST CSF.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain relationships with product areas and customer partners.
• Remain aware of the security landscape and incidents in aligned business units.
• Understand risk responsibilities and advise accordingly.
• Embed security into aligned business units.
• Advise on efficient change delivery whilst ensuring security.

Skills

Experience in cyber security privacy and resilience controls

Ability to build and maintain relationships

Technology, regulatory and resilience focus

Self-starter able to manage multiple workstreams

Experience with security controls frameworks like ISO 27001

Job description

Title – Cyber Security Solutions Consultant

Location – London/Bristol hybrid (2 days a week in the office)
Time Type- Fixed Term contract for 18 months

DLG is evolving. Across every facet of our business, our teams are embracing new opportunities and putting customers at the heart of everything they do. By joining them, you’ll have the opportunity to not just be recognised for your skills but encouraged to build upon them and empowered to do your absolute best.

The Cyber Security Solutions Consultant role sits in our Security Design, Innovation & Enablement team, purpose of role is to enable our business in their change and run initiatives whilst remaining secure and resilient.You will be working closely with our product areas (e.g. Solutions Architects, Engineering Leads, Product Owners, Project Managers etc) and be security architecture SME to provide security consultancy, design and architect input to ensure secure and resilient solutions, whilst promoting an environment and culture of continuous improvement, experimentation and innovation.

Our hybrid model offers a 'best of both worlds' approach. When you'll be in the office depends on your role and team, but colleagues spend at least 2 days a week in the office.

What you'll be doing:

• Developing and maintaining relationships with, and an in-depth understanding of, aligned product areas, customer partners, third parties, processes, technologies, data, and the direction of travel for your aligned business units.

• Remaining aware of security and resilience landscape of your aligned business unit(s) including all incidents, change programmes and CISO resource requirements.

• Understanding aligned business units’ risk responsibilities and advising accordingly

• Embedding security and resilience into your aligned business units.

• Advising your product areas on the most efficient way to deliver change whilst remaining secure and resilient and when to use Enterprise standards, guardrails and patterns.

• Ensuring all security and resilience queries and questions within your aligned business units are addressed.

What you'll need:

• Experience in of cyber security privacy and resilience controls, threat modelling, risk management, and data protection

• Ability to build and maintain relationships and influence stakeholders at various levels

• Has a keen technology, regulatory and resilience focus: you are passionate about major trends in the new way of working, including Lean IT, continuous delivery, cloud processes, etc.

• A self-starter who can proactively manage and prioritise work across multiple workstreams

• Experience of one or more security controls frameworks including ISO 27001, NIST CSF, Cyber Essentials Plus

Benefits
We recognise we wouldn't be where we are today without our colleagues, that's why we offer excellent benefits designed to suit your lifestyle:

• 9% employer contributed pension
• Annual company bonus of up to 10%
• Generous holiday allowance (plus the option to buy or sell up to 5 days each year)
• 50% off home, motor and pet insurance, plus Green Flag breakdown cover
• Additional optional Health and Dental insurance
• EV car scheme allows all colleagues to lease a brand new electric or plug-in hybrid car in a tax efficient way
• Buy as you earn share scheme
• Employee discounts and cashback
• Plus, many more

We want everyone to get the most out of their time at DLG. Which is why we’ve looked beyond the financial rewards and created an offer that takes your whole life into account. Supporting our people to work at their best – whatever that looks like – and offering real choice, flexibility, and a greater work-life balance that means our people have time to focus on the things that matter most to them. Our benefits are about more than just the money you earn. They’re about recognising who you are and the life you live.

Be yourself
Direct Line Group is an equal opportunity employer, and we think diversity of background and thinking is a big strength in our people. We're delighted to feature as one of the UK's Top 50 Inclusive Employers and are committed to making our business an inclusive place to work, where everyone can be themselves and succeed in their careers.

We know you're more than a CV, and the things that make you, you, are what bring potential to our business. We recognise and embrace people that work in different ways so if you need any adjustments to our recruitment process, please speak to the recruitment team who will be happy to support you.

Hours: 35 hours Monday to Friday
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