Senior Security Consultant

ANS Group; Manchester; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

ANS Group is seeking a Senior Cyber Security Consultant to engage with customers, assess risk, and deploy improvements across people, processes and technology. The role includes delivering vCISO engagements and advising CISOs on security posture.

As a Microsoft Partner, you will leverage Microsoft Security technologies to realise value for customers and lead security initiatives across multiple industries.

Qualifications

• As a thought leader, comfortable engaging with CISOs across industries.
• Knowledge of cybersecurity frameworks (e.g., NIST, ISO 27001) for best practices and compliance.
• Familiarity with incident response, digital forensics investigations, and mitigation.
• Strong communication to convey security concepts to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Strong awareness of Governance, Risk and Compliance needs.

Responsibilities

• Support PreSales in scoping cybersecurity engagements.
• Provide thought leadership to customers on cybersecurity.
• Assess customers' security posture across People, Processes, Technologies.
• Create and support customer cybersecurity roadmaps.
• Execute on technical cybersecurity engagements.
• Form and maintain strategic cybersecurity relationships.
• Stay up to date on industry trends to advise customers.
• Speak at internal and external events.

Skills

Thought leadership

Engaging with CISOs

Cybersecurity frameworks

Incident response & forensics

Communication skills

Governance, risk & compliance

Job description

A Senior Cyber Security Consultant is crucial to engaging with our customers to improve their security posture through consultative and technical engagement. As a Senior Consultant within the team, you will be expected to work with customers and assess their Cyber Security Risk (among People, Process, Technology) and recommend and deploy key improvements in these areas. The role is a thought leader in the Cyber Security landscape and will deliver vCISO engagements for our customers.

As a Microsoft Partner you will have extensive experience with the Microsoft Security technologies and be able to work with CISOs and customer security teams to realise value in these solutions.

Key Responsibilities

• Support PreSales in the scoping of Cyber Security consultative engagements.
• Provide thought leadership to customers on Cyber Security.
• Assessing Customers Security Posture (People, Processes, Technologies).
• Creating and supporting customer Cyber Security Roadmaps.
• Executing on Technical Cyber Security engagements.
• Form and maintain strategic Cyber Security Relationships.
• Staying up to date on industry trends to enable sound advice to our customers.
• Speaking at internal and external events.

Skills And Experience Required

• You will be a thought leader, comfortable with engaging with CISOs across multiple industry verticals. A safe pair of hands to lead our customers in securing their business and a change leader within our customer engagements.
• Knowledge of cybersecurity frameworks and standards (e.g., NIST, ISO 27001) to ensure adherence to best practices and compliance with industry regulations
• Familiarity with incident response procedures, including the ability to analyse and mitigate security incidents and conduct digital forensics investigations.
• Strong communication skills to effectively convey security concepts, findings, and recommendations to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Strong awareness of Governance, Risk and Compliance Needs.

Please note that this role requires eligibility for Security Clearance (SC). Applicants should typically be able to demonstrate five years of verifiable residency history and must successfully pass the relevant government vetting checks.