Job Description:

Security Information Assurance Consultant

5 Days Onsite Central London

At DXC Technology, delivering excellence for our customers and colleagues is more than just a motto, it’s something we strive towards constantly through our work. Every day we deliver mission critical services in a secure environment whilst promoting our people first agenda, a real sense of community and a healthy work-life balance. Our consistently positive customer feedback and continuous growth helps us cement our place as one of the world’s leading IT solutions enterprises, helping us deliver services and solutions in both challenging and exciting situations.

 We believe that hiring a diverse team is crucial to our success and our recruiting decisions are based on your skills and experience as an individual. We actively encourage consistent growth on our journey towards a culture of inclusion and recognise that the people we employ are vital to providing a great customer experience. As such, we have a variety of training, support, and tools available to aid in your continual personal and professional development. Our ongoing goal is to drive innovation and modernise operations across the board, which includes furthering the skills of our colleagues. At DXC, building a better you, builds a better us.

 At DXC, one of our platinum accounts has an opening for a Senior Information Assurance Consultant.  The successful candidate will work within multiple teams and will be innovative and analytical with a good eye for detail. Your role will include implementing standards, policies, and procedures for continual service improvement.

We are looking for an experienced Security Consultant who has all round skills in information security risk management.

Role responsibilitiesq :

• Working closely with Security Architects and the design teams, provide a bridge between the technical teams and the security risk owner from the business, helping translate technical security risks into a form understandable to non-technical business people. Advise risk owners as to the severity of the risks they are being presented with and potential mitigation strategies (and their impacts) to enable them to make informed risk management decisions
• Monitor implementation and ongoing maintenance of agreed risk management actions
• Create, maintain, and utilise risk assessment and related artefacts such as the risk register and security-specific documentation such as Security Operating Procedures
• Assist the Account Security Lead with creating and maintaining security-related processes, policies and guidance
• Proactively identifying areas for improvement in security across the account, both to improve security, and make good security easier

What you will bring to the team:

• Experience in a similar or related role with desirable additional qualifications to include CISM or CISSP / IISP or other professional body membership
• Experience of working to HMG (e.g. NCSC guidance, DSIT Secure by Design, GovS 007) best practices
• Desire to improve processes, looking for the root cause of a problem
• Willingness to both share your knowledge and learn from others
• A proactive approach towards looking for risks and problems
• A strong team working ethic, with a “customer first” focus and a thirst for knowledge

Desirable Skills and Technologies:

• Deep knowledge and understanding of information and cyber security risk management
• Experience in threat modelling utilising STRIDE or Attack Trees, NIST Cyber Security Framework
• Experience or knowledge of various technology stacks including Cloud (AWS, MS Azure), M365, VMWare, Redhat Openshift or other container orchestration platforms, Windows and Linux operating systems
• Knowledge of industry security guidance provided by the likes of OWASP and CIS
• Awareness of security champions programmes

What we will do for you:

• Competitive compensation
• Pension scheme
• DXC Select – Our comprehensive benefits package (includes private health/medical insurance, childcare vouchers, gym membership and more)
• Perks at Work (discounts on technology, groceries, travel and more)
• DXC incentives (recognition tools, employee lunches, regular social events etc)

At DXC Technology, we believe strong connections and community are key to our success. Our work model prioritizes in-person collaboration while offering flexibility to support wellbeing, productivity, individual work styles, and life circumstances. We’re committed to fostering an inclusive environment where everyone can thrive.

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