Senior Security Consultant

Reed Professional Services LLP; Birmingham; Remote; GBP 70,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

Reed Professional Services LLP is seeking a Senior Security Consultant to deliver security assurance across cloud and SaaS services. The role involves providing input to AWS, SaaS, and IaaS environments, assessing API risks, and producing assurance artefacts and remediation plans.

The successful candidate will engage with senior stakeholders, drive remediation actions to closure, and support audits and formal assurance processes across multiple projects in a fast-moving, cloud-first environment.

Qualifications

• Strong experience in security assurance and risk management.
• Practical experience working with AWS and SaaS environments.
• Ability to make clear, actionable security recommendations and see them through.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Experience engaging with senior stakeholders on security risk and control decisions.

Responsibilities

• Deliver hands-on security assurance across cloud and SaaS-based services.
• Provide security input to AWS, SaaS, and IaaS environments.
• Assess and manage API and integration risks across complex estates.
• Produce and maintain assurance artefacts, risk logs, and control evidence.
• Support remediation activity and work with delivery teams to close security gaps.
• Challenge delivery teams constructively on security weaknesses and proposed designs.
• Support audits, reviews, and formal assurance processes as required.
• Operate across multiple projects simultaneously within a fast-moving environment.

Skills

Security assurance

Risk management

AWS

SaaS environments

Stakeholder management

Governance

Security recommendations

Cloud security

Tools

ServiceNow

Salesforce

Job description

Senior Security Consultant (Cloud & SaaS Assurance)

• Contract Duration: 6 Months
• Location: Remote with occasional travel to client sites in London / Birmingham

Join Reed Professional Services (RPS), a leading digital transformation consultancy, as a Senior Security Consultant. This role is pivotal in delivering security assurance, cloud security input, and technical risk management across live projects in a fast-paced, cloud-first and SaaS-led environment.

Day-to-day of the role:

• Deliver hands-on security assurance across cloud and SaaS-based services.
• Provide security input to AWS, SaaS, and IaaS environments.
• Assess and manage API and integration risks across complex estates.
• Produce and maintain assurance artefacts, risk logs, and control evidence.
• Support remediation activity and work with delivery teams to close security gaps.
• Challenge delivery teams constructively on security weaknesses and proposed designs.
• Support audits, reviews, and formal assurance processes as required.
• Operate across multiple projects simultaneously within a fast-moving environment.

Required Skills & Qualifications:

• Strong experience in security assurance and risk management.
• Practical experience working with AWS and SaaS environments.
• Ability to make clear, actionable security recommendations and see them through.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Comfortable working in live delivery settings rather than purely advisory roles.
• Ability to assess and communicate security risk positions and produce stakeholder-ready assurance outputs, including risk assessments, remediation plans, and security recommendations.
• Experience producing security assurance artefacts, risk assessments, remediation plans, and stakeholder-ready recommendations.
• Ability to engage with and challenge technical and senior business stakeholders on security risk and control decisions.
• Experience supporting remediation activities, driving actions through closure and evidencing outcomes.
• Experience working across multiple concurrent projects within a fast-paced delivery environment.
• Strong stakeholder management skills with the ability to communicate security risk clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Central government or public sector assurance experience.
• Experience with ServiceNow, Salesforce, or comparable enterprise SaaS platforms.
• Exposure to OT, IoT, or smart-building technology.
• Cloud or cyber security certifications (AWS, CISSP, CCSK, etc.).
• Experience of GovAssure or similar government assurance frameworks.
• Experience producing assurance documentation for regulated or audited environments.
• Experience supporting digital transformation programmes within Central Government.
• Understanding cloud security architecture principles within AWS environments.

Additional Information:

• BPSS and active Security Clearance required.

To apply for this Senior Security Consultant position, please submit your CV and cover letter detailing your relevant experience and why you are interested in this position.