It Security Consultant

Vantage Point is a leading consultancy working with top Financial and Banking organisations in the field of IT and cybersecurity. Our mission is to help our clients protect their critical assets and information from emerging cyber threats. We provide expert guidance and innovative solutions to address the complex challenges faced by businesses today.

We are seeking 2 IT Security Consultants to join our client's Cyber Security Engineering team. As an IT Security Consultant, you will work closely with clients to assess their current security posture, identify vulnerabilities and risks, and develop tailored strategies and solutions to enhance their security defences.

Key Responsibilities:

• Communicate to application owners to onboard users and application accounts into PAM solution
• Track onboarding responses and progress
• Record onboarding issues, work with engineering team to find a solution and communicate to application team
• Schedule demo sessions between Engineering & Application teams to show how the PAM solution works to support education and awareness sessions
• Produce weekly and monthly progress reports on onboarding progress and issue status
• Write and update existing documentation to improve the onboarding process, awareness material and usage guides
• Automate and improve onboarding processes where possible
• Review configuration settings and 'clean–up' un–used or redundant configuration
• Escalate issues or onboarding challenges
• Actively monitoring an Inbox via ServiceNow and responding to queries
• Escalation of major issues via a pre–defined process

You will gain:

o An understanding of Privileged Access Management

o An understanding of the Trading FX platform and front office trading

o An understanding of Information Security

o Acquire a general understanding of Cyber Engineering

o Exposure to application developers, project management, IT and change teams

We are looking for a highly motivated and skilled professional with a strong background in IT security and a passion for protecting critical information assets. The successful candidate will have a deep understanding of cybersecurity risks and mitigation strategies, and the ability to effectively communicate complex technical concepts to non–technical stakeholders.

Requirements

We require people who will be able to work across different application teams and have a technical understanding of PAM. Examples of the technologies/skills we use are:

• Ideally previous use and experience of PAM tool, Delinea would be preferred but not essential
• Understanding of Identity technologies such as Active Directory, Azure Active Directory, and Microsoft Entra and Okta
• Ability to script and knowledge of APIs and automation techniques would be beneficial
• Troubleshooting skills are essential along with attention to detail
• Ability to project manage and track onboarding progress
• Good communication and problem–solving skills
• Ability to work in a fast–paced environment
• Experience in working with clients and providing security consulting services is a plus

Benefits

– Salary between GBP30–40K depending on experience

• Life Assurance
• Hybrid working
• Training & Development
• Health Cash Plan
• Ongoing informal and formal support training as you develop within your role