Cyber Solutions Consultant

Direct Line Insurance Group; City of Westminster; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading insurance firm is looking for a Cyber Security Solutions Consultant in Westminster, UK. You will work closely with product teams to provide security consultancy and input for resilient solutions, while nurturing a culture of continuous improvement. The ideal candidate has experience in cyber security and security control frameworks and will be instrumental in ensuring security is embedded in business processes. This role offers a hybrid working model with competitive benefits.

Benefits

9% employer contributed pension

Annual bonus up to 10%

Generous holiday allowance

50% off insurance

Optional health and dental insurance

EV car scheme

Employee discounts and cashback

Qualifications

• Experience in cyber security privacy and resilience controls.
• Knowledge of security controls frameworks, such as ISO 27001.
• Ability to advise on security architecture and design.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain relationships with aligned product areas.
• Advise product areas on managing security risks.
• Embed security into business units to ensure resilience.

Skills

Cyber security privacy and resilience controls

Threat modelling

Risk management

Data protection

Security architecture

Security and resilience best practices advisory

Job description

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.

Responsibilities

• 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.
• 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.

Qualifications

• Experience in cyber security privacy and resilience controls, threat modelling, risk management, and data protection.
• Experience of one or more security controls frameworks including ISO 27001, NIST CSF, Cyber Essentials Plus.
• Experience of security architecture and design.
• Ability to advise product and business areas on security and resilience best practices.

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 us, 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.

Benefits

• 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

Equal Opportunity Employment

Direct Line Group is an equal opportunity employer. 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.