Senior Security Consultant

Professional Services Consultants find solutions to ensure enterprise deployments make the deepest impact possible across an organisation.
Our consultants solve organisation's most challenging problems, including the ones they didn't know existed. They are self-motivated, have an insatiable thirst to learn new technologies and thrive in a fast-paced environment.
Successful RiverSafe security consultants feel comfortable mastering new technologies and come from a variety of business, analytic and technology backgrounds.
RiverSafe is an incredibly innovative consultancy with a range of offerings which delivers fast time to value for Security, Big Data Analytics, and Operational Intelligence use cases.


Responsibility

As a Consultant or Senior Consultant in RiverSafe, you will be working within our Cyber Defence or Big Data Analytics practice and will have exposure to a variety of security technologies delivering security implementations or remediation programmes. We don’t expect you to have formal experience of market facing business development activity but you will be expected to be able to identify opportunities where RiverSafe services will help to improve or strengthen security. Highly motivated, you will be a good communicator with the ability to contribute confidently to technical security discussions with peers and management. You will be a team player who is not only looking to enhance their own career, but recognises the value in working well with others and the value of teamwork. You will have responsibility for;

Working across a portfolio of cyber engagements with our clients, reporting to a Manager or Senior Manager, responsible for the day to day completion of security assessments or technical delivery elements of a security transformation programme.
Working with team members you will create high quality reports, ready for review by a Manager or Senior Manager.
Where possible, you will identify opportunities for RiverSafe to assist our clients further and escalate these potential areas to the engagement manager.
Establishing and building a network of contacts within our clients
Working with our Customer Success Manager you will assist with the planning and delivery phases of engagements
Contributing to the creation of proposals and marketing material
Ensuring your work is delivered on time and on budget
Contributing to the development of the existing team by sharing knowledge, leading by example and helping team members to develop.

Requirements

Experience in information and cyber security is essential for this role. A comparable consulting experience is helpful, although RiverSafe will provide ongoing training and support to develop your consulting skills. We therefore welcome applicants with industry experience and skills delivering transformation workstreams, or security remediation work. A broad background across security and experience in 1 or more of the following areas would be beneficial;
Security transformation programmes – design and management of security solution implementations and / or remediation programmes to address risks across AV, patching, secure build, vulnerability scanning & remediation, logging and monitoring, & threat management
Security around emerging technology platforms – primarily Cloud security & Big Data Analytics
Breach and incident management, design and implementation of breach and major incident management practices
Experience in working with Internet of Things solutions, in particular working with clients to implement security within these environments
Experience in working within agile development environments to embed security successfully into systems prior to product / production release
Security architecture – creating secure architecture designs for solutions, designing secure patterns for reuse and the delivery of architectural reviews
Previous experience of working with Splunk, Cisco Sourcefire or other SIEM and IPS/IDS products is a must.
Experience with both the Unix and Windows operating systems; must be very comfortable on the command line interface.
Excellent networking fundamentals.
Experience with scripting and application development (including at least one of Python, Perl, shell scripting, regular expressions, SQL and HTML/JavaScript).

Skills

Solid communication skills and expertise to translate technical jargon into business familiar language.
Able to quickly understand and interpret customer problems and navigate complex organisations
Self-motivated and self-educating, yet willing and able to work collaboratively with both customers and fellow RiverSafe consultants
Well organized with a healthy sense of urgency, able to set; communicate; and meet aggressive deadlines with competing priorities
Ability & flexibility to travel within EMEA up to 75% of time


Education
BSc (MSc preferred) in computer science, cyber-security or a related field including engineering, mathematics, and other STEM subjects
Industry security certifications are a bonus.