Information Cyber Security Manager

Location: Exeter (Remote options available)
Employment Type: initial 12 month FTC
Salary: £75,000 + bonus

Are you passionate about cybersecurity and ready to take ownership of critical security initiatives? We’re looking for an experienced Information Cyber Security Manager to join our team and drive improvements across our IT security landscape.

Information Cyber Security Manager – About the Role

As an Information Cyber Security Manager, you will play a pivotal role in strengthening our cybersecurity posture. You’ll lead initiatives to harden systems against advanced threats, manage compliance processes, and innovate detection and response capabilities. This is a technical role where you’ll collaborate with internal teams and external partners to ensure robust security across cloud environments, identity management, and emerging AI technologies.

Information Cyber Security Manager – Key Responsibilities

• Implement and enhance cybersecurity controls aligned with frameworks like NIST and MITRE ATT&CK.
• Drive improvements across identity access management, device management, and cloud security (AWS, Microsoft).
• Innovate detection and response infrastructure, automate manual processes, and tune detection rules.
• Spearhead secure deployment of AI solutions and ensure data protection across diverse environments.
• Conduct risk assessments for new technologies and suppliers.
• Monitor for threats, investigate alerts, and support incident response.
• Maintain compliance with ISO27001, CIS18, and internal governance standards.
• Lead vulnerability management and penetration testing initiatives.

What We’re Looking For

• Minimum 5 years’ experience in Information Security.
• Relevant certifications (CISSP, CISM, CEH or equivalent).
• Strong technical expertise in cloud security (AWS, Azure) and cybersecurity best practices.
• Proven ability to assess risks, design mitigations, and communicate effectively with stakeholders.
• Right to work in the UK.

Personal Attributes

• Highly motivated and self-driven.
• Strong problem-solving skills and a bias for action.
• Excellent communication and relationship-building abilities.
• Innovative mindset with tolerance for ambiguity.

Why Join Us?

You’ll be part of a forward-thinking team tackling cutting-edge security challenges, including AI security and advanced threat mitigation. We offer a competitive salary, comprehensive benefits, and opportunities for professional growth.

Reasonable Adjustments:

Respect and equality are core values to us. We are proud of the diverse and inclusive community we have built, and we welcome applications from people of all backgrounds and perspectives. Our success is driven by our people, united by the spirit of partnership to deliver the best resourcing solutions for our clients.

If you need any help or adjustments during the recruitment process for any reason, please let us know when you apply or talk to the recruiters directly so we can support you.

Device Vulnerability Governance & Lead
Hybrid working – 3 days on site
£500 – £750 per day (umbrella engagement)

Our client, a market leading national business, is looking to hire a contractor to consult Device Management and Security Vulnerability.

The is based on predominantly Microsoft Windows EUC technologies to assess vulnerability risk and application dependencies.

Working in a governance role, the successful candidate will address vulnerabilities on endpoints, especially those caused by applications not owned by a specific dept, team or individual. Also, the need to engage with third parties where applications owned by external companies are a potential risk.

A understanding of the detail of vulnerability remediation is also required e.g. Patching, Intune endpoint management.

Part of the project will be to analyse vulnerability data to identify root causes and develop solutions.

Knowledge and experience of security management tools highly beneficial e.g. Qualys, Defender.

Engagement via Umbrella Company Only; all taxes & NI deducted at source.

Reasonable Adjustments:

Respect and equality are core values to us. We are proud of the diverse and inclusive community we have built, and we welcome applications from people of all backgrounds and perspectives. Our success is driven by our people, united by the spirit of partnership to deliver the best resourcing solutions for our clients.

If you need any help or adjustments during the recruitment process for any reason, please let us know when you apply or talk to the recruiters directly so we can support you.

IT Controls Analyst

An exciting opportunity for an experienced IT Controls Analyst to take ownership of monitoring, managing, and improving IT security controls across the organisation. This role is critical in ensuring compliance with internal policies, regulatory requirements, and industry standards, while supporting audits and driving continuous improvement.

Key Responsibilities:

• Review and develop IT policies, procedures, and existing controls.
• Manage scheduled controls and ensure adherence to defined standards.
• Collaborate with senior stakeholders to agree new controls and maintain alignment across offices.
• Liaise with vendors and auditors, providing accurate evidence and documentation for audits.
• Implement improvements to controls and support compliance with frameworks such as ISO27001 and FCA requirements.

What We’re Looking For:

• Experience in control environments and managing IT policies and procedures.
• Strong understanding of internal/external audits and regulatory compliance.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office tools (Project, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio).
• Ability to manage third-party suppliers and maintain documented evidence.

Desirable Skills:

• Information Security certifications (e.g., CISM).
• Familiarity with ISO27001, Cyber Essentials+, and Azure DevOps.
• Experience in regulated industries or investment management.
• Strong organisational, analytical, and communication skills with attention to detail.

Reasonable Adjustments:

Respect and equality are core values to us. We are proud of the diverse and inclusive community we have built, and we welcome applications from people of all backgrounds and perspectives. Our success is driven by our people, united by the spirit of partnership to deliver the best resourcing solutions for our clients.

If you need any help or adjustments during the recruitment process for any reason, please let us know when you apply or talk to the recruiters directly so we can support you.

Technical Security Consultant (Hands on) – Outside IR35/Remote – SC Cleared

• Must have active SC Clearance
• Rate: £600 – £750 Outside
• Location(s): Remote first with ad-hoc travel to client sites when/if required
• Lenght: Initial 4 months with likely extensions

An opportunity has emerged with a supplier into UK Defence to join an on-going complex technical project that revolves Software, Cyber Security and Hardware.

The project requires a highly technical consultant capabale of navigating technical challenges across Cyber Security with the ability to be hands on, whilst understanding the broader project architecture.

• Security Architecture Design
• Develop and maintain security architecture frameworks aligned with business and IT strategies.
• Design secure network, application, and cloud architectures.
• Ensure integration of security controls across systems and platforms.
• Collaboration & Stakeholder Engagement
• Work closely with enterprise architects, infrastructure teams, and developers.
• Translate business requirements into secure technical solutions.
• Present security strategies and roadmaps to senior leadership.
• Skills and understanding
• Deep understanding of cybersecurity principles and technologies.
• Experience with military or law enforcement operational information technologies.
• Experienced with Cross Domain Security and Zero Trust architectures and Data Centric Security approaches including Identity Federation, Attribute-based Access Control, Key management and other related security solutions.
• Experienced with secure transactional or message distribution technologies.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.

Further desireable skills include: Operational Product Experience, DevSecOps and Software Development

If you’re interested in the above, apply or reach out to [email protected]

Reasonable Adjustments:

Respect and equality are core values to us. We are proud of the diverse and inclusive community we have built, and we welcome applications from people of all backgrounds and perspectives. Our success is driven by our people, united by the spirit of partnership to deliver the best resourcing solutions for our clients.

If you need any help or adjustments during the recruitment process for any reason, please let us know when you apply or talk to the recruiters directly so we can support you.

Security (SIEM) Architect

• Location: Warwick, Hybrid
• IR Status: TBC
• Rate: £600 – £800
• Length: 6-12 months, TBC
• Clearance: Must have active SC clearance.

An exciting opportunity has emerged with an organisaiton supplying complex architectural, technical and delivery solutions across the UK Secure Government and Public Sectors.

They are looking to bring in a specialist security archietct, with demonstrable experience of having architected a SIEM capability ustiling the Elasticsearch toolset.

There has been an initial scoping, you will come in and provide a full-scale holistic solution and will have the support of the architetural team that provided the initial scope.

Architecture & Design

• Define and implement SIEM architecture using Elastic Stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana, Beats).
• Design log ingestion pipelines, data models, and correlation rules for security monitoring.
• Develop observability frameworks integrating logs, metrics, and traces.

Implementation & Engineering

• Deploy and configure ElasticSearch clusters, Kibana dashboards, and Logstash pipelines.
• Integrate SIEM with cloud-native observability tools (AWS CloudWatch, Azure Monitor, GCP Operations Suite).
• Automate log collection and enrichment using Beats, OpenTelemetry, and scripting.

Security Use Cases & Threat Detection

• Build and maintain SIEM use cases, alerts, and dashboards for threat detection.
• Map detection rules to frameworks like MITRE ATT&CK, STRIDE, and NIST CSF.
• Collaborate with SOC teams to refine incident response workflows.

Governance & Compliance

• Align SIEM architecture with Secure by Design and Zero Trust principles.
• Support compliance with ISO 27001, PCI DSS, etc
• Document architecture, SyOps, and security standards for audit readiness.

Reasonable Adjustments:

Respect and equality are core values to us. We are proud of the diverse and inclusive community we have built, and we welcome applications from people of all backgrounds and perspectives. Our success is driven by our people, united by the spirit of partnership to deliver the best resourcing solutions for our clients.

If you need any help or adjustments during the recruitment process for any reason, please let us know when you apply or talk to the recruiters directly so we can support you.

GRC Consultant – MOD DV

• Location: Farnborough or Cambridgeshire
• Type: Hybrid (3 days on-site)
• IR Status: Inside
• Rate: £500 – £600
• Lenghth: Initial 6 months, scope for extension

Must have Active MOD DV Clearance

In this role, you’ll be:

• Providing the Secure by Design risk and security assurance function within MOD as part of a managed service.
• Have an excellent understanding of risk management and assessment principles and frameworks, such as ISO27005 and the NIST Cyber Security Framework.
• Produce informative and succinct reporting that clearly articulates any identified vulnerabilities, associated risks, controls and risk treatment activity.
• Facilitate security and risk workshops with the various Authority departments, to align with wider customer transformational Security and risk management outcomes.
• Provide accurate and pragmatic remediation/risk management guidance/advice in balance with Business objectives and risk appetites.
• Have an understanding of risk assessment in an agile delivery environment.
• Exceptional team working ethic and interpersonal skills.
• Have a good understanding of modern IT technologies and services, such as Cloud Computing, AI (ISO42001), Mobile Computing, IT Security, Infrastructure technologies, Zero Trust, Data at Rest/In Transit Cryptography, Cross Domain Solutions and demonstrate an understanding of security architecture both physical and cloud (be able to read and understand HLDs/LLDs).

• Strong working knowledge of:

• Security Assurance Coordinator or Delivery Team Security Lead roles
• JSP440, JSP604/453 & JSP490
• MOD/GDS Secure by Design Principles
• Supplier Chain Assurance and Risks.
• Security related legislation (e.g. GDPR, PCI DSS, ICO requirements).
• Security Control Frameworks such as ISO 27001, NIST CSF and CIS Controls v8.
• HMG, NPSA and NCSC security policies, standards and guidance.
• Have experience building and implementing secure by design principals within the software development lifecycle (SDLC).
• Threat Modelling – Kill Chain – Attack tree analysis.

• Working understanding of:

• Cloud security including Azure, Amazon Web Service, Key Management Systems, Containerisation, Network Security Groups, Host based firewalls, Web Application Firewalls
• Physical Network Infrastructure, Anti-Patterns, Network Firewalls, IDS/IPS, DMZs
• AI use cases, secure configuration (ISO42001 knowledge preferable),
• ITHC scoping and remediation action plans.

If you’re interested in learning more – please apply or reach out to [email protected]

Reasonable Adjustments:

Respect and equality are core values to us. We are proud of the diverse and inclusive community we have built, and we welcome applications from people of all backgrounds and perspectives. Our success is driven by our people, united by the spirit of partnership to deliver the best resourcing solutions for our clients.

If you need any help or adjustments during the recruitment process for any reason, please let us know when you apply or talk to the recruiters directly so we can support you.

Purview DLP Administrator

Rate – £500 – £525 Inside IR35

Duration – 3 months initial

Location – Remote – potential on site in Bristol / Somerset

We’re seeking a Purview Configuration Engineer with hands-on experience in Microsoft Entra ID and Microsoft Purview to play a key role in delivering secure, compliant and efficient technology services. If you’re passionate about automation, innovation and continuous improvement, this is an opportunity to make a real impact within a forward-thinking technology environment.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Identifying opportunities for automation and improvement
• Delivering product vision and strategy, ensuring users maximise functionality across compliance and identity solutions
• Contribute to continuous improvement to enhance service quality
• Create and maintain detailed system documentation, including change requests, user guides, and configuration records
• Progressing project work and tracking tasks in Jira
• Troubleshooting technical failures and responding to security incidents
• Providing occasional out-of-hours support for updates and incident management
• Monitor and manage ServiceNow queues

About You

• Proven experience with Microsoft Entra ID and Microsoft Purview (especially DLP)
• Strong communication skills with a customer-first mindset
• Excellent at planning, prioritising and managing your own workload
• Adaptable and open to working with a variety of technologies
• Microsoft certifications (or equivalent) are desirable
• Knowledge of ITIL v4 processes is a plus
• SSO

Reasonable Adjustments:

Respect and equality are core values to us. We are proud of the diverse and inclusive community we have built, and we welcome applications from people of all backgrounds and perspectives. Our success is driven by our people, united by the spirit of partnership to deliver the best resourcing solutions for our clients.

If you need any help or adjustments during the recruitment process for any reason, please let us know when you apply or talk to the recruiters directly so we can support you.

Data Privacy Lead – DPIA Specialist

Rate: £550 per day (Inside IR35, Umbrella)
Location: London, Bristol, York (50% on-site)
Duration: 6 months

Our client is seeking an experienced Data Privacy Lead with strong hands-on expertise in DPIA (Data Protection Impact Assessment) design, guidance and delivery. The successful candidate will play a key role in ensuring privacy by design across Customer and Marketing initiatives advising, leading and supporting teams through DPIA processes covering customer data, marketing preferences and digital engagement (apps, emails, MarTech platforms).

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead and provide expert guidance on the DPIA process across complex, data-driven marketing and customer projects.
• Advise stakeholders on privacy best practice, ensuring compliance with UK GDPR and internal governance standards.
• Support and train project teams to undertake DPIAs effectively, ensuring consistency in approach and documentation.
• Assess and manage privacy risks related to customer data, marketing preferences and third-party data transfers.
• Collaborate closely with Legal, Data Governance and Technology teams to embed privacy by design principles.

Experience & Skills Required:

• Proven experience as a Data Privacy Lead within a large, complex organisation.
• Extensive background leading and guiding DPIAs manually (not reliant on tooling such as OneTrust).
• Strong understanding of data governance, third-party data transfers and customer data handling.
• Experience within financial services.
• Familiarity with MarTech ecosystems and customer communication channels.
• Awareness of AI and emerging privacy implications (desirable).

Reasonable Adjustments:

Respect and equality are core values to us. We are proud of the diverse and inclusive community we have built, and we welcome applications from people of all backgrounds and perspectives. Our success is driven by our people, united by the spirit of partnership to deliver the best resourcing solutions for our clients.

If you need any help or adjustments during the recruitment process for any reason, please let us know when you apply or talk to the recruiters directly so we can support you.

Security Architect – IT & OT

Rate – £600 Inside IR35 (Umbrella engagement)

Duration – 6 months initial

Location – Southwest – twice a week on site

Contract Security Architect – IT & OT – ISO27001 – Regulatory Projects

One of our clients is looking for a hands-on Security Architect to join their team and drive security design work across a portfolio of regulatory programmes.

The role will focus on the design and delivery of security processes, procedures and governance frameworks, helping to manage the security backlog and embed robust controls into projects.

Responsibilities:

• Design and implement security processes and procedures across IT and OT environments
• Support regulatory compliance through strong governance and data protection practices
• Review and design authentication and access integration models
• Enhance business system security and mobile device protection
• Develop policies, standards and lifecycle assessment frameworks
• Work closely with delivery teams to support and guide secure solutions

Requirements:

• Proven experience as a Security Architect with a hands-on delivery focused approach
• Strong background in both IT and OT security
• Deep knowledge of ISO 27001 and broader regulatory compliance frameworks
• Recognised security or architecture qualifications (e.g., SABSA, TOGAF Security or equivalent)
• Excellent stakeholder engagement and the ability to drive design work across multiple projects

Reasonable Adjustments:

Respect and equality are core values to us. We are proud of the diverse and inclusive community we have built, and we welcome applications from people of all backgrounds and perspectives. Our success is driven by our people, united by the spirit of partnership to deliver the best resourcing solutions for our clients.

If you need any help or adjustments during the recruitment process for any reason, please let us know when you apply or talk to the recruiters directly so we can support you.

Job Title: Cyber Security Lead
Location: Remote / London office (occasional travel)
Salary: £50,000
Type: Full-time, Permanent

Overview:
We are seeking a hands-on Cyber Security Lead to drive cybersecurity across a family of independent specialist schools. You will take ownership of protecting staff, students, and data, coordinating with multiple MSPs, managing cyber risk, monitoring threats, and embedding robust security practices across the organisation.

Key Responsibilities:

• Act as the central point for all cybersecurity matters and incident response.

• Maintain the cybersecurity risk register and lead Cyber Essentials certification.

• Oversee Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace security, including vulnerability management, patching, MFA, and email security.

• Coordinate security audits, penetration tests, and third-party application reviews.

• Manage and monitor MSP performance, ensuring consistent security standards.

• Promote cybersecurity awareness, provide guidance, and support staff training.

• Report on cyber incidents, risks, and improvements to senior leadership.

Requirements:

• 4-6 years’ experience in IT or cybersecurity roles.

• Strong understanding of Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace security controls.

• Experience managing or working with MSPs.

• Familiarity with Cyber Essentials, NCSC guidance, or ISO 27001 principles.

• Relevant certifications such as CompTIA Security+, CISMP, or equivalent experience.

• Excellent communication skills, able to explain complex concepts to non-technical audiences.

• Self-motivated, organised, and able to manage multiple priorities remotely.

• Commitment to safeguarding and the welfare of children.

Desirable:

• Experience supporting multi-site organisations.

• Strong understanding of GDPR principles.

Benefits:

• Competitive salary with pension, life assurance, sick pay, and enhanced family benefits

• Support for professional development

• 25 days annual leave (increasing with promotion) plus Christmas gifted days

• Flexible / hybrid working arrangements

Reasonable Adjustments:

Respect and equality are core values to us. We are proud of the diverse and inclusive community we have built, and we welcome applications from people of all backgrounds and perspectives. Our success is driven by our people, united by the spirit of partnership to deliver the best resourcing solutions for our clients.

If you need any help or adjustments during the recruitment process for any reason, please let us know when you apply or talk to the recruiters directly so we can support you.