Manager - Information Security - Consulting Firm

As a senior IT professional the successful candidate must be able to keep pace with a fast-moving IT landscape and possess a range of superior IT skills.

You must be able to communicate effective strategies with a range of stakeholders. As a consultant, you will be expected to identify gaps in current IT practices and recommend best practice solutions to reduce risk and maximize business opportunities.

- Regular risk auditing and monitoring of systems.

- Compliance implementation, testing and reporting.

- Designing and testing of new IT solutions.

- Provision of business support at a high level and to a range of key stakeholders in relation to ongoing security improvements.

- Crisis management where required.

- Project management and project architecture.

- Review and analysis of delivered projects.

Key responsibilities :

- Identify weaknesses and potential threats to existing information security tool sets.

- Perform continual testing on current systems to determine potential problems or security threats.

- Prepare reports for internal and external clients detailing the security issues, making recommendations and identifying solutions.

- Ability to work as part of a team but also independently and on own initiative.

- Flexible approach to tasks that may change daily.

- Solid communication skills and expertise to translate technical jargon into business familiar language.

- Proven ability to audit an IT environment and provide security and process recommendations.

Qualifications :

- A bachelor's degree in computer science, cyber-security or a related field including Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) accreditation is desirable.