Technical Cyber Specialist

Security Consultant - Technical Cyber Specialist

Contract Duration: 6 Months

Location: Remote with ad-hoc travel (London / Birmingham)

Mandatory: Active SC Clearence

Join Reed Professional Services (RPS), a leading digital transformation consultancy, as a Security Consultant. This role is pivotal in supporting a fast-paced digital portfolio that includes cloud-hosted platforms, enterprise SaaS solutions, and integration-heavy services. Ideal for a strong mid-level consultant, this position offers the opportunity to work within delivery teams and support senior consultants in ensuring robust cyber security across our projects.

Day-to-day of the role:

• Support project-level security assurance and risk management activities.
• Gather and document control evidence and assurance artefacts.
• Maintain risk registers, actions, and remediation tracking.
• Support audits, reviews, and formal assurance processes.
• Work with delivery teams to implement agreed security controls.
• Assist with cloud and SaaS security assurance tasks.
• Ensure decisions, risks, and controls are clearly documented and traceable.
• Produce security risk assessments, risk positions, and pragmatic control recommendations across cloud, SaaS, and integration-heavy environments.
• Support remediation activity by working with delivery teams to agree actions, track progress, and evidence closure.
• Engage with architects, suppliers, programme teams, and senior stakeholders to provide effective security challenge and guidance.
• Create stakeholder-ready outputs including risk summaries, assurance updates, decision papers, and evidence packs.

Required Skills & Qualifications:

• Experience supporting security assurance and risk management in live environments.
• Familiarity with cloud and SaaS platforms (AWS exposure preferred).
• Ability to work methodically with evidence, risks, and actions.
• Comfortable working across multiple workstreams.
• Practical, delivery-focused approach.
• Experience assessing security risks across API-driven and integration-heavy environments.
• Strong stakeholder management skills with the ability to challenge delivery teams constructively.
• Ability to develop risk positions, remediation plans, and actionable security recommendations.
• Excellent written communication skills, producing concise assurance documentation for technical and non-technical audiences.
• Experience engaging with stakeholders ranging from engineers and architects to senior security leadership.

Desirable Skills:

• Exposure to public sector or regulated environments.
• Experience with ServiceNow, Salesforce, or similar SaaS platforms.
• Interest or exposure to OT / IoT / PropTech security.
• Exposure to GovAssure or government assurance frameworks.
• Experience working within central government environments.
• Knowledge of cloud security architecture principles within AWS environments.

Soft Skills:

• Strong stakeholder engagement and relationship-building skills.
• Able to act as a constructive "critical friend" when identifying security risks and weaknesses.
• Comfortable operating in fast-paced environments with multiple competing priorities.
• Pragmatic approach, balancing security requirements with delivery objectives.

Additional Information:

• BPSS and active Security Clearance required.

To apply for this Security Consultant position, please submit your CV and cover letter detailing your relevant experience and why you are interested in this position