Cyber Security Consultant

Cyber Security Consultant

Rate: £500 – £550 Outside IR35
Duration: 6 months initial
Commitment: 2 days per week
Location: Fully remote

The role:

We’re looking for a hands-on Cyber Security Consultant to support a major cloud migration programme, moving an on-premise VMware estate into Microsoft Azure, including Azure VMware Solution (AVS).

This is an advisory and technical review role. You’ll work alongside the cyber, architecture, engineering and project teams and a cloud delivery partner. You’ll review what’s being proposed, identify security risks and recommend what needs to change before anything is implemented.

Responsibilities

• Review technical designs before implementation
• Carry out upfront security risk assessments
• Challenge whether solutions are designed securely, explaining the risk and recommending specific changes
• Review the security of Azure and Azure VMware Solution
• Review networking and firewall changes, including segmentation and connectivity between systems
• Ensure access and permissions are appropriate
• Review how legacy applications are migrated
• Consider vulnerability management, monitoring, backup and disaster recovery
• Coordinate security and penetration testing
• Ensure security issues identified during the project are fixed
• Work with project teams throughout delivery

Essential experience

• Security architecture and reviewing technical solutions from a security perspective
• Microsoft Azure
• Networking, including segmentation and connectivity
• Firewalls and network security, including reviewing rules and access
• Security risk assessments of solutions before implementation
• Identity and access management, including privileged access
• Vulnerability management
• Security and penetration testing: scoping it and understanding findings
• Delivery within projects or programmes

Highly desirable

• Azure VMware Solution (AVS) / VMware
• Supporting cloud, data-centre or major infrastructure migrations

You’ll need enough technical depth to hold credible conversations with architects, infrastructure engineers, cloud teams and project managers.

Reasonable Adjustments:

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