Remote Security Consultant & Technical Cyber Specialist

Consult; Birmingham; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Reed Professional Services is recruiting a Security Consultant - Technical Cyber Specialist to support security assurance and risk management across cloud, SaaS, and integration-heavy environments. The role involves delivering risk-based security controls, documenting evidence, and engaging with architects and senior stakeholders.

Remote with ad-hoc travel to London/Birmingham; active SC clearance is mandatory.

Qualifications

• Experience supporting security assurance and risk management in live environments.
• Familiarity with cloud and SaaS platforms (AWS exposure preferred).
• Ability to work methodically with evidence, risks, and actions.

Responsibilities

• Support project-level security assurance and risk management activities.
• Gather and document control evidence and assurance artefacts.
• Maintain risk registers, actions, and remediation tracking.
• Support audits, reviews, and formal assurance processes.
• Work with delivery teams to implement agreed security controls.
• Assist with cloud and SaaS security assurance tasks.
• Ensure decisions, risks, and controls are clearly documented and traceable.
• Produce security risk assessments, risk positions, and pragmatic control recommendations across cloud, SaaS, and integration-heavy environments.
• Support remediation activity by working with delivery teams to agree actions, track progress, and evidence closure.
• Engage with architects, suppliers, programme teams, and senior stakeholders to provide effective security challenge and guidance.
• Create stakeholder-ready outputs including risk summaries, assurance updates, decision papers, and evidence packs.

Skills

Security risk mgmt

Cloud security

Stakeholder mgmt

Evidence-based

Threat modelling

Education

Relevant security qualification

Tools

ServiceNow

Salesforce

GovAssure guidance

Job description

Reed Professional Services is recruiting a Security Consultant - Technical Cyber Specialist to support security assurance and risk management across cloud, SaaS, and integration-heavy environments. The role involves delivering risk-based security controls, documenting evidence, and engaging with architects and senior stakeholders.

Remote with ad-hoc travel to London/Birmingham; active SC clearance is mandatory.