Expression of Interest: Cyber Security Consultant & Project Managers
Contract Type: 12 month fixed-term contracts, with an opportunity to extend by an additional 12 months. Inzpire will always consider permanent contracts for the right candidate.
Practice Areas: All cyber security specialities and experience considered.
Salary: Highly competitive based on experience and skills.
Location: Predominately working from home. There is also a requirement to travel to our Lincoln HQ, MoD Corsham and wider UK Defence establishments.
THE ROLE
As an expanding and successful company, our ever-growing team is now accepting expressions of interest for a number of roles to operate within a Cyber Governance and Risk Environment. These roles will support a well-established and multi-faceted team, supporting our UK Defence and security partners in generating governance, policy, process and enhancing their ethos and culture across the assurance of through life cyber security risk management.
Working as part of a supportive team will ensure that those less experienced in cyber security roles, who want to learn or develop these skills, will be mentored throughout; facilitating personal and professional development, whilst enabling them to interact and share their skills across the team and wider company. The right individuals will be involved in all aspects of through life risk management support, focussing on providing revised governance, policy and sharing your knowledge within an ever-changing cyber security risk landscape.
THE PERSON
We are looking for proactive individuals with a ‘can do attitude,’ who are able to work within small teams, whilst being capable of working independently with minimal supervision. You will not be afraid to contribute, both to the task in hand and with suggestions and ideas for continual business improvement for Inzpire and our customers.
Whether engaging stakeholders during customer site visits, providing cyber risk and resilience guidance, or supporting the programmes delivery team in their through life cyber risk management, you will have the confidence in your abilities, knowledge and analysis, and the ability to express this to your team and our clients. You will have a comprehensive understanding of MS Office 365 applications, excellent written and oral communication skills, remain agile and adaptable and be able to travel independently to our Lincoln office and client UK Sites (all travel cost are reimbursed).
You should be highly motivated with a genuine passion for delivering excellence within an ever-changing cyber risk landscape.
Duties and responsibilities:
As a valued member of our team, your duties and responsibilities will include but are not limited to:
- Support identification and assessment and tracking of cyber vulnerabilities within a socio technical cyber landscape
- Support identification of appropriate security controls and recommend management strategies
- Provide advice and guidance on NIST cyber security and risk management frameworks
- Conduct cyber security maturity assessments of organisations
- Build and expand stakeholder relationships
- Drive forward continual improvement, identifying and championing better practice
- Horizon scanning to remain abreast of the latest cyber threats, vulnerabilities and tactics
- Brief organisation and client senior leadership teams;
- Support Inzpire’s social value activities.
The following attributes are highly desirable, not essential:
- Previous experience across cyber security or information assurance delivery
- Working Kknowledge of agile processes and principles
- Experience of agile project management;
- Working knowledge of NIST cyber security and risk management frameworks
- Awareness of human factors within cyber security;
- Qualifications in cyber or IT related subject;
- Experience in delivering within cyber risk and resilience projects;
- Experience of working with the UK military;
- Experience of working within large transitional programmes;
- Experience in identifying and auditing products; tailored to meet the customers’ needs;
- Outstanding communication, presentation, and leadership skills;
- Current UK security clearance.
Personal and professional development:
Inzpire Ltd and the Cyber Division actively generate and offer opportunities for our valued team members to develop both personally and professionally. We will support your personnel development by:
- Allocating time to allow you to achieve your development goals
- Providing an annual training budget for each member of the team
- Aligning our development pathways to industry standard development frameworks
- Enabling your progression within the Cyber Division and other internal positions within Inzpire
Inzpire also provides numerous schemes to support your mental and physical wellbeing alongside social value projects for the wider community. The Cyber Division is currently investing in the next generation of cyber professionals, with our team actively supporting projects such as CyberFirst, which encourages more children from under-represented areas to get involved in cyber at school.
PRACTICE AREAS
All cyber security specialities and levels of experience will be considered. We are particularly interested in hearing from the following groups:
Junior Cyber Security Consultants SFIA 2-3
Cyber Security Consultants SFIA 4
Accreditation and Assurance specialists SFIA 4-5
Project Management (Agile) SFIA 3-4
We are interested in people with experience and interest in: NIST CSF (V2), cyber risk and resilience, information assurance, project management and agile PM. We recognise the value and skills that a workforce with diverse experiences can bring and encourage candidates from all backgrounds to apply including those re-entering the workforce, changing careers or coming from non-traditional pathways.
LOCATION & HOURS OF WORK
This role will involve predominantly working from home. There is a requirement to travel to our Lincoln HQ, MoD Corsham and wider UK Defence establishments when required. All care will be taken to manage personal availability against the customer requirement. All travel to customer sites will be paid for from your home location. There may be opportunities for overseas travel by mutual agreement.
Due to the nature of elements of the role, the successful applicant must be a UK national and may be required to successfully complete national security vetting which may require criminal record, security service and credit reference checks; qualification will also normally require a minimum UK residency of at least 5 years.
BENEFITS
Our comprehensive benefits package includes:
- 30 days paid holiday plus 8 days bank holidays per year
- Uncapped leave scheme (upon successful completion of probation period)
- Company provided private medical and dental insurance
- Company share incentive scheme
- Enhanced maternity and paternity pay
- Annual profit and performance related pay scheme
- Generous death in service (£100k)
- Company contributions into a group personal pension scheme
- Business travel insurance
- Funded role specific training and financial assistance with professional development
- Tax efficient cycle to work and charitable giving schemes
- Tax efficient electric vehicle company car scheme
THE COMPANY
We are a highly innovative and rapidly growing defence and technology company that design, develop, and deliver some of the world’s most advanced defence related training, products, and services.
We were recently crowned Employer of the Year at the British Ex-Forces in Business Awards 2023. We have been listed as one of the ‘100 Best Large Companies to Work For’ in the UK and Midlands by Best Companies several times as well as achieving ‘Best Companies 3 Star Accreditation’ and a rating of ‘world-class’ for our employee engagement on a number of occasions. We are also proud to have been honoured with two Queen’s Awards for Enterprise in Innovation, for our next-generation GECO military mission planning system.
As part of a unique and specialist defence company, our friendly team consists of experienced and highly capable individuals, working together with a mature ‘can do’ work ethic. Our central business functions are located in an easily accessible, bright and modern head office to the west of Lincoln, alongside our mission systems team, while the majority of our operational specialists are embedded alongside our defence customers.
EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES
Inzpire are committed to creating an inclusive and respectful environment for current and prospective employees. We recognise that a diverse, talented and highly motivated workforce is pivotal to our continuing success, therefore our selection decisions are based on the merit of the individual, irrespective of their race, colour, religion, gender, age, sexual orientation, marital status, disability or any other characteristic.
We genuinely recognise the benefits of a diverse and inclusive working environment. We are proud to be a disability confident committed employer, a supportive signatory of the Armed Forces Covenant and a gold award winner within the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme. We are therefore delighted to offer a guaranteed interview scheme to service leavers, reservists and military spouses or partners (including those of service leavers) who meet all our advertised requirements.
APPLICATIONS
You will receive an acknowledgement email upon submission of your application (please make sure to check your spam/junk folder if you don't receive one!). Please be assured that your CV will be reviewed and that we will be in contact to update you on the status of your application; this may take up to 3-6 weeks.
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