We are looking for Technical Security Consultants to work as part of our Security Consultancy team to support the delivery of business change as we move capabilities to the cloud in a scaled agile environment with a strong and evolving DevSecOps approach. Work to support fast paced change in an exciting and growing business as Admiral continues to develop its offerings placing the customer at the centre of everything we do.
As a Technical Security Consultant your main duties will be to:
- Understand the Strategic Business Objectives, actively contribute to achieving them.
- Provide technical security consultancy to the change delivery functions – agile & waterfall.
- Assess security posture in CI/CD pipelines and support improvement.
- Support the Security Champions Programme and DevSecOps.
- Understand and deliver security assessments, threat modelling and security consultancy for Generative AI and Machine Learning.
- Liaise and collaborate with technical stakeholders within Agile Tribes, Projects, and Programmes.
- Assess changes for technical vulnerabilities, threat models, assess security risk exposure, and identify appropriate controls to bring the risk within tolerance.
- Engage effectively with specialists in Security Architecture, Security Operations, Security Culture, Security Delivery, and Security Risk and Governance teams to ensure completeness and consistency of the advice provided to delivery functions.
- Perform design reviews to ensure security principles and controls are included from design phase.
- Ensure advice provided is of a high standard and based on best practice, supported by Security Leadership and withing the cost and risk tolerance of the organisation.
- Work closely with specialists in Security Operations to develop operational use cases for detect and respond capabilities by ensuring Logging and Monitoring, Incident Response, and Threat Intelligence are all considered and included in security requirements, are implemented, tested, and validated by the business change delivery owner.
- Collaborate with all areas of Infosec to provide continuous improvement of the advice provided from knowledge gained from analysing and resolving information security incidents that can be used to reduce the likelihood and/or impact of future incidents.
- Apply the information security risk assessment process to identify risks within the scope of the information security management system and identify the risk owners.
- Act as a champion for information security initiatives and maintain high standards of integrity and professionalism.
- Delivering risk assessment reports, threat modelling, and risk treatment recommendations for all technology and business solutions in a timely and repeatable manner.
- Contribute to, and maintain, an effective risk management mechanism to ensure that system owners have accurate and current a view of information risk exposure.
- Meeting the InfoSec strategic objectives.
- Continuously develop technical security skills and capabilities in line with the organisation’s strategic objectives.
- Development of security playbooks and component specifications.
Experience and Qualifications required
Essential skills
- Technical background, with knowledge of one or more of the following, Development, IT support, Data Science, networking or system administration.
- Experience of conducting risk assessments, threat models or security consulting for Generative AI systems.
- Deep knowledge and understanding of Cloud migration and Application Security development lifecycle and DevSecOps principles, automation, and familiarity with security architecture modelling.
- Knowledge and experience of securing Azure and/or Google Cloud Platforms.
- Knowledge and experience of using at least one risk methodology.
- Security Software as a Service implementations.
- Strong stakeholder management and communication skills and a proven track record of working with businesses to meet strategic objectives.
- Ability to discuss highly complex and technical problems and solutions in business language.
- Experienced in cyber security frameworks such as NIST, CIS20, MITRE Attack and STRIDE.
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