Senior Consultant - Risk and Governance

Leonardo; Newcastle upon Tyne; Hybrid; GBP 44,000 - 63,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Time to Recharge

Pension scheme

Mental health support

Bonus scheme

Free courses

Referral programme

Flexible benefits up to £500

Flexible working

Job summary

Leonardo UK is seeking a Senior Cyber Consultant to join the Cyber & Security Solutions Division. The role focuses on helping a customer identify, assess, treat and monitor their security risks in line with their security objectives, with potential to define and implement a security strategy or programme of work, as well as producing security policies, processes and management plans.

This is a blended hybrid role with collaboration across consultants, engineers and product domain specialists to

Qualifications

• At least 1 recognised professional certification in Cyber Security (Sec+, CISMP, CCNA Security).
• Experience managing multiple stakeholders with empathy and delivering with quality.
• Knowledge of risk management standards (NIST SP800-37, SP800-30, ISO-31000, 27005).
• Strong grasp of TCP/IP networking concepts and OSI model.

Responsibilities

• Relate - actively listen and empathise with customers to build intimacy.
• Understand – define potential solutions from limited information using experience and technical knowledge.
• Assess – frame threats and security concepts through the language of risk to align with objectives.
• Treat – define proportionate security solutions across people, process and technology.
• Assure – help define and perform assessments to give customers confidence in security.
• Develop – support in building offerings and contributing to product development for customer use.

Skills

Core consulting skills

Client relations

Adaptability

Reliability

Flexibility

Team player

Cyber security certifications

Job description

Job Description

Salary Range: £44,171 - £63,000

Leonardo UK operates a grade-based salary framework with broad bands. The salary range shown reflects the approved grade band for this role, or a narrower hiring range published within that band, and is benchmarked against the external market. Exceptions above the standard range are managed through governance controls to protect internal equity.

Your impact

Your work at Leonardo UK will see you support in solving customer problems in an agile, innovative and team-centric manner. The role may involve a blended hybrid working model, with a mixture of working from home and working on site at one of our Leonardo offices to ensure close collaboration with the wider team and with our customers.

Leonardo UK is seeking a Senior Cyber Consultant to join the Cyber & Security Solutions Division team.

This role is focused on helping a customer to identify, assess, treat and monitor their security risks in line with their security objectives. This could extend further and include defining and implementing a security strategy or programme of work, as well as producing security policies, processes and management plans.

What You Will Do As a Senior Consultant

• Relate - Our customers and their problem are at the heart of what we do. As a Consultant you will help to actively listen and empathise with our customers to build intimacy.
• Understand – We add value by solving problems. As a Consultant you will help define potential solutions to these problems with only limited information based on your experience and technical knowledge.
• Assess – At Leonardo we adopt a risk-based approach to any security problem. As a Consultant you will need to understand and frame threats and other security concepts through the language of risk to help customers to make the link back to their objectives.
• Treat – Managing risk is the technical core of our offering. As a Consultant you will assist in defining appropriate and proportionate security solutions across people, process and technology, showing how those solutions enable customers to achieve their objectives.
• Assure – Giving our customers confidence that security is where it needs to be is a key requirement across heavily regulated industries. As a Consultant you will assist in defining, implementing and performing assessments of our customer’s environment against a given set of criteria spanning people, process and technology.
• Develop – All our offerings are based on a core set of products. As a consultant you will assist in building a viable offering as part of the Leonardo business winning process for a customer as well as help in the technical development of our products to be used across our customer sectors.

What You’ll Bring

This is an exciting opportunity to be part of significant programmes, during which you will ensure that products meet the highest standards, in accordance with customer’s requirements and risk appetite. You will be supported in this role as part of a larger team of consultants, engineers and product domain specialists.

In addition to a passion for cyber and information security, you really must have:

• Skills
• Core consulting skills – building client relations; adaptability to changing schedules; reliability and quality of task delivery; flexibility in working hours and locations; team player.
• Qualifications
• At least 1 recognised professional certification in in Cyber Security such as Sec+, CISMP, and CCNA Security.
• Knowledge and Demonstrable Experience
• Experience of indirectly managing project delivery and associated metrics such as time, cost and quality.
• Experience of and ability to manage multiple stakeholders and their needs with empathy, finding an appropriate balance of listening and speaking.
• An ambitious and creative drive to help safeguard UK national infrastructure and become a recognised cyber expert.
• Varied experience in the development and mentoring of junior team members.
• Confident understanding of risk management and general best practice with knowledge of best practice standards such as NIST SP800-37, 30 and ISO-31000, 27005.
• Varied Experience of assessing risk and building or evolving risk management framework components such as measurement criteria.
• Good ability to articulate abstract risk-based concepts and approaches and its relationship to threat and vulnerability.
• Varied experience of assessing, defining and implementing security governance frameworks.
• A confident understanding of TCP/IP based networking concepts across the OSI model layer as well as the common protocols and their risks.

This is not an exhaustive list, and we are keen to hear from you even if you might not have experience in all the above. The most important skill is a good attitude and willingness to learn.

Security Clearance

This role is subject to pre-employment screening in line with the UK Government’s Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS). An additional range of Personnel Security Controls referred to as National Security Vetting (NSV) may apply, this could include meeting the eligibility requirements for The Security Check (SC) or Developed Vetting (DV). For more information and guidance please visit: https://careers.uk.leonardo.com/gb/en/security-and-vetting

Why join us

At Leonardo, our people are at the heart of everything we do. We offer a comprehensive, company-funded benefits package that supports your wellbeing, career development, and work–life balance. Whether you're looking to grow professionally, care for your health, or plan for the future, we’re here to help you thrive.

• Time to Recharge: Enjoy generous leave with the opportunity to accrue up to 12 additional flexi-days each year.
• Secure your Future: Benefit from our award-winning pension scheme with up to 15% employer contribution.
• Your Wellbeing Matters: Free access to mental health support, financial advice, and employee-led networks championing inclusion and diversity (Enable, Pride, Equalise, Armed Forces, Carers, Wellbeing and Ethnicity).
• Rewarding Performance: All employees at management level and below are eligible for our bonus scheme.
• Never Stop Learning: Free access to 4,000+ online courses via Coursera and LinkedIn Learning.
• Refer a friend: Receive a financial reward through our referral programme.
• Tailored Perks: Spend up to £500 annually on flexible benefits including private healthcare, dental, family cover, tech & lifestyle discounts, gym memberships and more.
• Flexible working: Flexible hours with hybrid working options. For part time opportunities, please talk to us about what might be possible for this role.

For a full list of our company benefits please visit our website.

Leonardo is a global leader in Aerospace, Defence, and Security. Headquartered in Italy, we employ over 53,000 people worldwide including 8,500 across 9 sites in the UK. Our employees are not just part of a team—they are key contributors to shaping innovation, advancing technology, and enhancing global safety.

At Leonardo we are committed to building an inclusive, accessible, and welcoming workplace. We believe that a diverse workforce sparks creativity, drives innovation, and leads to better outcomes for our people and our customers. If you have any accessibility requirements to support you during the recruitment process, just let us know.

Primary Location:

GB - Bristol - Coldharbour Lane

Additional Locations:

GB - Edinburgh, GB - Lincoln, GB - Luton - Cap. Green 300, GB - Newcastle, GB - Southampton

Contract Type

Permanent

Hybrid Working

Hybrid