Senior Security Consultant

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

Job summary

ANS Group is seeking a Senior Cyber Security Consultant to engage with customers and raise their security posture through consultative and technical work, including vCISO engagements.

You will lead with Microsoft Security technologies, work with CISOs, assess risk across People, Process, Technology, and deploy improvements while delivering security roadmaps.

The role requires SC clearance eligibility and residency checks.

Qualifications

• Leadership in engaging with CISOs across multiple industries.
• Knowledge of cybersecurity frameworks and standards (NIST, ISO 27001).
• Familiarity with incident response and digital forensics.
• Strong communication to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Governance, risk and compliance awareness.

Responsibilities

• Support PreSales in scoping cyber security consultative engagements.
• Provide thought leadership to customers on cyber security.
• Assessing customers security posture (People, Processes, Technologies).
• Create and support 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

Thought leadership

Stakeholder engagement

Incident response

Digital forensics

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.