R900 000 – R1 200 000
Remote: Durban, Johannesburg and Cape TownÂ
Top IT Services company in the UK is looking for a Senior Security Consultant to join their team and work remotely on International projects. This role will initially start off as a Services Delivery Manager role but eventually transition back into a Consulting role.
Responsibilities:
- Deliver security consulting services offered by the business to clients. These services may be delivered in the form of a secondment to a role, vCISO, vISO etc.
- Assist with security related pre-sales work, including input into proposals and RFCs, attend client meetings and advise on solutions
- Review and advise on the security services offered to clients
- Work with the Information Security consulting team to provide guidance and input on security elements
- Meet revenue targets
- Champion Security and promote a security-conscious culture
- Maintain oversight of the security services offered to clients, and the SOC operation, advising on and implementing improvements
- Participate in regular client meetings as required to advise clients, support BizDev and TAMs, and sell security services
- Management of IT Security Suppliers
Technical Skills:
- University degree in Information Technology, Electrical Engineering or equivalent
- Professional designation relating to Information Security (e.g., CISSP, CISM, CISA)
- Microsoft certifications, preferably security focussed
- Other technical security certification (SIEM, EDR etc)
Soft Skills:
- Exceptional interpersonal communication, ability to communicate at a business strategy level with C-Suite executives and at a technical level with engineers
- Well presented for client-facing engagements, possessing gravitas and confidence when engaging with clients.
- Experience delivering client facing presales and consulting engagements
- Excellent written communication skills, able to write documentation for all levels of business, from executive summaries to forensic incident investigation reports
- Possessing an understanding of business management and strategy, as well as financial, marketing and sales ability
- Understanding of global Security trends and developments, and the implications of international security developments
- Demonstrable history of good job performance
Desirable Experience:
- Exposure to and understanding of business strategy is vital to delivering holistic security strategies to clients, along with a strong foundation in technical support and security consulting.
- At least 10 years in technical roles
- At least 5 years in a security role
- Previous experience with IT Security Operations
- Experience delivering consulting work to multiple clients simultaneously
- Knowledge of security frameworks (NIST, Cyber Essentials, ISO27001 etc)
- Experience overseeing SOC teams
- Experience managing third party security suppliers
- Experience liaising with senior management and at executive levels
- Experience designing and delivering security services to clients, including commercial ownership of services
- Experience with security incident investigation and response
- Experience designing and implementing security programmes
- Experience and knowledge of Security Architecture and technical implementation of tooling
- Proven commercial awareness with a track record of managing and leading engagements with vendors/partners to deliver business value
- Project Management capabilities with ability to plan, initiate, monitor, and implement projects within a team
- Experience managing IT Audit activities
REF. KJ0655
