Cyber Security Consultant

Job Description:

• Role: Cyber Security Consultant
• Rate: Inside IR35
• Location: 2 days on site (Preston, London or Birmingham)
• Contract: 3 month with possibility of extension
• Clearance: SC Clearance must be active

We are seeking an experienced Cyber Security Consultant to play a pivotal role within our Operational Integrator (OI) function, supporting a major transition to a multi-supplier (SIAM) model for our Central Government Client.

You will be responsible for understanding, aligning, and governing existing high-severity security incident management and vulnerability management processes across suppliers.

Key Responsibilities:

• Governance & Process Alignment: Lead the review, standardisation, and governance of multi-supplier processes for high-severity incidents (S3/S4) and vulnerabilities. Establish severity thresholds, exception workflows, and prioritisation frameworks (e.g., CVSS, KEV, EPSS).
• Supplier Coordination (SIAM): Act as the core integration point across multiple suppliers, resolving process maturity gaps and driving consistent outputs without redesigning underlying operational models.
• Incident Management Governance: Oversee the end-to-end lifecycle of S3/S4 incidents, ensuring suppliers meet escalation, communication, and reporting expectations while defining the required visibility over SOC outputs.
• Vulnerability Lifecycle Governance: Track vulnerabilities from identification through to remediation or formal risk acceptance. Monitor SLA adherence, asset coverage gaps, and non-patchable legacy systems.
• Evidence & Audit Assurance: Define and align audit-ready evidence requirements across both domains, ensuring all outputs are traceable to risks and controls in line with ISMS standards.
• Transition Support & Reporting: Deliver clear, evidence based reporting to governance forums and establish a solid baseline for a seamless handover to BAU.

Essential Skills & Experience:

• SC Clearance must be active
• Proven background in security incident management, vulnerability management, or cyber governance roles.
• Deep understanding of the complete incident management lifecycle (detect, respond, recover) and vulnerability lifecycle (identify, prioritise, remediate, validate).
• Demonstrable experience operating effectively within multi-supplier or SIAM environments.
• Ability to interpret and govern outputs from SOC and vulnerability tooling without needing direct hands-on platform access.
• Strong stakeholder management capabilities, with desirable experience in Defence, highly regulated sectors, or frameworks such as NIST CSF, NCSC, ITIL, and ISMS audit processes

£600.00 / day

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