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.

Security Lead

Oxfordshire / Hybrid / Permanent / up to £65,000

About the Role

We’re seeking a Security Lead to take ownership of both client-facing and internal security strategy within our Managed Services environment. This is a strategic and hands-on leadership position – you’ll oversee security governance, ensure compliance with leading frameworks (Cyber Essentials, ISO27001, NIST), and maintain a strong internal security posture across our systems and services.

You’ll lead Quarterly Security Reviews (QSRs), manage client risk registers, and act as a trusted advisor translating complex risks into clear business outcomes. Internally, you’ll own our security frameworks, guide improvement across tools and teams, and ensure compliance through measurable posture metrics and ongoing development.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead client Quarterly Security Reviews (QSRs) covering vulnerabilities, incidents, compliance, and risk registers.

• Translate technical risks into meaningful business impacts and recommendations.

• Manage internal and client risk registers and exception processes.

• Oversee security compliance across frameworks such as Cyber Essentials+, ISO27001, and NIST.

• Ensure secure deployment and monitoring of core MSP systems (RMM, XDR, PSA, backup, etc.).

• Collaborate with service and project teams to embed security into delivery and change control.

• Mentor and develop Security Analysts, maintaining up-to-date certifications and knowledge sharing.

• Drive continuous improvement through automation, posture metrics, and emerging threat awareness.

About You

You’ll bring a strong balance of strategic thinking, governance, and technical depth, with experience embedding security frameworks in managed environments. You’re confident presenting to senior stakeholders and enjoy leading teams and shaping best practice.

Essential Skills & Experience

• 5+ years in IT security or MSP environments.

• Strong understanding of Cyber Essentials, ISO27001, or NIST frameworks.

• Experience managing patching, vulnerability, and risk governance.

• Skilled communicator with the ability to explain risks to non-technical audiences.

• Proven experience leading client-facing security reviews.

Desirable

• CISSP, CISM, or equivalent certifications.

• Experience auditing or delivering compliance frameworks.

• Familiarity with RMM/XDR/EDR, SIEM, and vulnerability scanning platforms.

• Background in mentoring or managing small teams.

• Exposure to incident response and tabletop exercises.

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.

CDS Platform Engineer – SC Cleared (Dynatrace)

• Telford
• 2 days on-site / 3 days at home
• Length: 6 months
• Rate: £500 – £550 (Inside)

As a BOMS Monitoring Engineer, you will work within the Business Outcomes & Monitoring Solutions (BOMS) team-a multi-client centre of excellence delivering operational monitoring capabilities and tooling solutions that drive business intelligence and service assurance. You will be responsible for designing, implementing, and supporting monitoring solutions across a range of technologies and platforms, ensuring service stability, performance insight, and proactive incident management.

Key Responsibilities

• Translate high-level monitoring non-functional requirements (NFRs) into actionable configurations across tools such as Splunk, Dynatrace, and AppDynamics.
• Deliver full-stack observability solutions, including application-aware network performance monitoring (NPM), synthetics, log analytics, and infrastructure metrics.
• Provide live support for monitoring technologies and assist with live service support, including key business events and incident response (some KBE’s may be out of hours).
• Collaborate with architects and project teams to integrate monitoring into solution designs and test strategies.
• Maintain and enhance dashboards, alerts, and visualisations to support proactive service management.
• Participate in continuous improvement initiatives and tooling exploitation to enhance operational efficiency efficiency within immature teams

Required Skills and Experience

• Strong understanding and expereince in SRE principals and methodologies
• Strong understanding of Observability within a complex tech stack
• Hands-on experience with monitoring tools such as Splunk, Splunk ITSI, Dynatrace, AppDynamics, and synthetic monitoring platforms.
• Strong understanding and experience with implementing and using APM tooling
• Ability to analyse and resolve complex technical problems and document solutions effectively.
• Able to work closely with technical and non-technical stakeholders, to bring them along on a journey of change
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with a proactive and detail-oriented mindset.

Desireable Certifications

• Splunk Core Certified User / ITSI Certified Administrator
• Dynatrace Associate Certification
• Cisco AppDynamics Associate Performance Analyst
• Understanding of log and synthetic monitoring principles
• Able to work closely with technical and non-technical stakeholders, to bring them along on a journey of change

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 Risk Assurance Consultant (Security Cleared)

UK Wide – Hybrid (offices across the UK)

£50,000 – £75,000 + Benefits

Are you an experienced security risk professional with a passion for driving strategic assurance activities in a complex organisation?

We are looking for a number of Security Risk Assurance Consultant to lead a high-performing team in delivering risk-based assurance across people, processes, and technology.

In this role, you will:

• Drive alignment between assurance activities and strategic risks
• Build collaborative relationships with senior stakeholders
• Shape and manage the annual assurance plan
• Present key findings and insights at governance forums
• Influence decision-making through robust, evidence-based reporting
• Act as a key interface across the organisation and with external partners

You’ll bring strong, proactive mindset, and the ability to interpret and communicate complex security risks to both technical and non-technical audiences.

The following qualifications are desirable: CISM, CRISC, CISSP, CISA, CGEIT, ISO27001 Lead Auditor. 

Office locations include London / Birmingham / Manchester / Newcastle / Sheffield / Blackpool / Leeds with travel required 3 times per week.

We are looking for Security Risk Consultants that currently hold an active SC Clearance.

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.

Splunk Engineer – Active SC or DV – Permanent

• Location: Cheltenham
• Type: 5 days a week on-site
• Salary: £50,000 – £75,000 – based on skillset/experience
• Clearance: Minimum SC, must be able to attain DV, Sole British

A new role has emerged with an exciting SME technical consultancy that are delivering varied technical solutions into the UK Government and Public Sectors.

Their technical solutions span software development, DevOps, Cyber Security and automation, with scope to gain experience across these.

This is an opportunity for a Splunk Engineer to join an existing technical programme, with scope to be involved in the future architecture and design of new programmes.

Skills

As mentioned, this organisation works on a variety of technical offerings, broad experience is really valuable alongside the Splunk skills and several technical backgrounds can be considered!

• Splunk – Essential
• Linux Administration
• Apache Ni-Fi
• Python
• Broad Software Development

If you’re interested in learning more, 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.

AWS Security Analyst

Rate: £400 Inside IR35

Duration: 6 months

Location: Hybrid – Bristol limited travel per month

A client of ours is seeking an AWS Security Analyst with proven expertise in securing and managing AWS environments at scale. The ideal candidate will have hands-on experience designing, implementing and maintaining robust AWS security solutions, ensuring compliance, resilience and operational excellence.

Key Responsibilities

• Act as the AWS security subject matter expert, providing guidance and implementing best practices across cloud environments

• Deliver Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) solutions to optimise efficiency, security and scalability

• Provide AWS infrastructure support within a large-scale, complex environment

• Design and enhance CI/CD pipelines to support secure, automated deployments

• Develop and maintain orchestration strategies for seamless, repeatable and compliant deployments

• Conduct proactive security assessments, incident response and remediation activities

• Collaborate with DevOps, Architecture and Compliance teams to ensure continuous security alignment

Essential Experience

• Demonstrable expertise in AWS security services (e.g. IAM, KMS, CloudTrail, Config, GuardDuty, Security Hub, WAF)

• Strong experience delivering and maintaining IaC using tools such as Terraform or AWS CloudFormation

• Understanding of DevSecOps principles and secure CI/CD pipeline implementation

• Proven track record supporting and securing large-scale AWS infrastructures

• Familiarity with automation and orchestration tools (e.g., Ansible, Jenkins or AWS CodePipeline)

Desirable

• AWS Security Specialty or Solutions Architect certification

• Experience working within regulated industries (e.g., finance, insurance or public sector)

• Knowledge of compliance frameworks such as ISO 27001, NIST or CIS Benchmarks

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.

Sanderson Government and Defence are supporting a significant commercial partner of the UK government in their search for Network Engineers to join their Tewkesbury based team supporting a central government organisation.

We require individuals to be eligible for DV clearance for this role, however we can typically have people starting at a lower level of clearance, so there should be no additional delay in starting because of this.

Some of the technical requirements responsibilities include:

• Provide first and second level technical support on incidents and problems
• Monitor overall system performance and ensure smooth system functionality
• Experience in Cisco
• Knowledge of F5 software
• Knowledge in VMware

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.

Ping ID Specialist / IAM Consultant – SC Clearance

• Location: Cheltenham Road, Bishops Cleeve
• Work Type: 70% Remote, 30% Office
• Length: Initial Short Term Contract, c.2 months with scope for extensions
• Rate: £450 – £500 (Inside)
• Clearance: Must have active SC Clearance

Role Description:

• IAMSME with experience of Web SSO / MFA and Application integration, based upon Ping Directory, Ping Federate and PingOne MFA. Ping Federate with Radius.
• Upgrade experience on Linux. Also experience of working in a Secure Client environment.
• Demonstratable experience in Ping Directory, Ping Federate, PingOne MFA, Ping Fed Radius, configuration, migration and Application onboarding using SAML and OIDC authentications. – Ideally certified in Ping Identity products.
• Experience in applying consultancy approaches and techniques as part of migration project.
• Experience of working in a classified environment. Aviation Services
• Proficient in reviewing, validating and implementing Ping Identity policies.
• LDAP directory knowledge and experience in LDAP structure and Synchronisation
• Radius knowledge and experience to setup Ping Federate Radius service, policies and connection testing
• Proficient in reviewing & inputting into Architecture artifacts.
• Working with Applications teams to manage re-configuration of SSO and MFA for existing applications.
• Working with client project manager and support planning work breakdown steps
• Proficient in stakeholder management.
• Knowledge of government security standards and processes such as ISO27001 standards, NNPPI, NIST & Cyber Essentials Plus & GDPR.

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.