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Form of workAs a Lead Cyber Security Consultant at Actica, you will have the opportunity to lead multiple, small Actica teams in their support to a wide range of high-profile UK public sector and defence organisations. Your help enables our customers to protect their ICT investments, and in doing so you will play a key role in nationally critical projects which make a real difference to people’s everyday lives.
You will be joining an established business practice with multiple in-flight projects and a continued demand for our services. This role will be responsible for the outputs of several small Actica teams, engaging senior customer stakeholders, supporting Actica personnel in the execution of their roles, supporting the mentoring and development of staff as well as growing the business through engaging with our established customer base and seeking new opportunities.
Our projects require the skills and experience to: provide advice and guidance on Information Assurance topics; develop IA strategies, policies, guidance and awareness; plan and manage the delivery of a security work programme; define security requirements; design and implement security architectures; and overseeing the secure development and accreditation of information systems.
Our position as both client-side advisor and at times working with industry delivery teams means that your role will involve significant stakeholder engagement, dealing directly with the client, including in resolving day-day issues involved in assignment delivery and developing follow-on opportunities, so excellent interpersonal and influencing skills are essential.
Key Responsibilities
Leading one or more Actica teams, you will undertake a number of varying consultancy assignments. Due to the potential variety in assignments your responsibilities will range from developing security architectures, to providing guidance on GRC activities. Other responsibilities will include:
• Providing security expertise for major system procurements and Agile programmes to ensure secure delivery;
• Identifying, analysing and evaluating information risks across a range of programmes, projects and systems;
• Explaining to risk owners the causes, likelihood and potential business impacts of information risks;
• Identifying and presenting options for treating or transferring information risks;
• Authoring and/or supporting the development of security assurance documentation;
• Developing or reviewing new security architectures;
• Scoping security testing activities, and explaining the results and required remediation.
As part of the management team for the security practice your responsibilities will also include:
As part of the management team for the security practice your responsibilities will also include:
• Managing the delivery of security services by Actica teams across several live projects;
• Working with our client-side customers to manage contract delivery;
• Working with our industry-side customers to develop compelling, winning proposals and ultimately deliver projects into UK Defence or Public Sector;
• Coach, mentor and help develop junior Actica staff.
Skills, Knowledge and Expertise
The following attributes and areas of experience will make you particularly suited to this role with Actica:
• Experience of complex ICT systems security in a technical delivery or consulting capacity in the UK Defence sector or Public Sector;
• The ability to present and justify conclusions to project teams and business stakeholders;
• Proven abilities in delivering to client expectations and requirements; and
• Strong verbal and written communications skills.
Knowledge of the following is highly desirable for the role:
• Structured security frameworks, such as HMG SPF and ISO27001;
• Security, technical and enterprise architecture methods such as TOGAF and SABSA;
• Technical risk assessments;
• Software development methods and techniques e.g. Agile methods such as SCRUM;
• Enterprise security packages, security enforcing software and devices, such as identity management and federation, cryptography, public key infrastructure, firewalls, SIEM, vulnerability scanning, etc.
Candidates must be eligible and willing to gain UK Security Clearance to apply for this position.
The nature of Actica’s business means that a wide and varied background is preferable and the capability to adapt quickly to change is always required.
Benefits
25 days of paid leave per annum plus 8 UK bank holidays
Participation in a discretionary bonus scheme
Participation in our stakeholder pension scheme
Participation in cycle to work scheme
Employee Assistance Programme
Electric Car leasing Scheme
Participation in the Cycle to Work scheme
Participation in a discretionary bonus scheme
Participation in our stakeholder pension scheme
Participation in cycle to work scheme
Employee Assistance Programme
Electric Car leasing Scheme
Participation in the Cycle to Work scheme
About Actica
Actica Consulting is a growing Technology Consultancy that works on some of the most nationally critical technology projects. We specialise in delivering complex projects to limited timescales. Our customers include a wide range of public sector organisations; such as, the Home Office, the Ministry of Defence, HM Treasury, the Ministry of Justice, Police Forces, Fire Services and the NHS; as well as a range of national and international companies across the private sector.
We are recruiting in order to facilitate continued growth of the business and as a result multiple positions are available across Consultant, Senior Consultant, and Principal Consultant grades. The advertised role is for employment on a permanent basis; however, we are happy to discuss Associate (contract) opportunities if that is your preference.
Actica Consulting is a growing Technology Consultancy that works on some of the most nationally critical technology projects. We specialise in delivering complex projects to limited timescales. Our customers include a wide range of public sector organisations; such as, the Home Office, the Ministry of Defence, HM Treasury, the Ministry of Justice, Police Forces, Fire Services and the NHS; as well as a range of national and international companies across the private sector.
We are recruiting in order to facilitate continued growth of the business and as a result multiple positions are available across Consultant, Senior Consultant, and Principal Consultant grades. The advertised role is for employment on a permanent basis; however, we are happy to discuss Associate (contract) opportunities if that is your preference.
- Collaborate with application teams to assess existing on-premises or legacy applications and plan their migration to the cloud.
- Have a high-level knowledge of security and compliance requirements throughout the design process. Then implement appropriate security controls, such as identity and access management, encryption, and network security, to protect data and resources.
- Optimize existing cloud-based systems for performance and scalability, understanding bottlenecks and then implement solutions such as caching mechanisms, load balancing, and auto-scaling capabilities efficiently.
- Collaboration with cross-functional teams, including developers, operations personnel, department stakeholders.
Candidates must be eligible and willing to gain high level UK Security Clearance to apply for this position.
About Actica Consulting
Actica Consulting is a technical and management consultancy dedicated to ensuring that its customers make best use of emerging Information and Communications technologies in achieving their business objectives.
We combine our strong technical expertise with an excellent understanding of process transformation to focus on harnessing technology to create solutions that deliver substantial business benefits to our clients.
We combine our strong technical expertise with an excellent understanding of process transformation to focus on harnessing technology to create solutions that deliver substantial business benefits to our clients.
Actica's approach is founded on six guiding principles:
» Market focus: We specialise in supporting the acquisition of ICT solutions in the public sector and have wide experience in defence, police, central and local government.
» Independence: We maintain our independence from software, hardware and outsourcing providers to ensure we can always give impartial advice.
» Excellence: We commit to exceeding our customers' expectations for quality, responsiveness and professional excellence while delivering within the agreed price and schedule.
» Creativity: We employ high calibre people of exceptional creativity, expertise and determination who work closely with one another and with our clients to achieve high quality solutions to our clients' problems.
» Value: We pride ourselves on providing the highest quality of service that delivers added value to each of our clients.
» Flexibility: We work flexibly with our clients to solve their problems and arrive at solutions that can work within their organisation, recognising that skills transfer is an integral part of our mission.
» Market focus: We specialise in supporting the acquisition of ICT solutions in the public sector and have wide experience in defence, police, central and local government.
» Independence: We maintain our independence from software, hardware and outsourcing providers to ensure we can always give impartial advice.
» Excellence: We commit to exceeding our customers' expectations for quality, responsiveness and professional excellence while delivering within the agreed price and schedule.
» Creativity: We employ high calibre people of exceptional creativity, expertise and determination who work closely with one another and with our clients to achieve high quality solutions to our clients' problems.
» Value: We pride ourselves on providing the highest quality of service that delivers added value to each of our clients.
» Flexibility: We work flexibly with our clients to solve their problems and arrive at solutions that can work within their organisation, recognising that skills transfer is an integral part of our mission.
