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Security Consultant - Disaster Recovery

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Location(s): UK, Europe & Africa : UK : London 

 

BAE Systems Digital Intelligence is home to 4,500 digital, cyber and intelligence experts. We work collaboratively across 10 countries to collect, connect and understand complex data, so that governments, nation states, armed forces and commercial businesses can unlock digital advantage in the most demanding environments.
 

Job Title: Security Consultant - Disaster Recovery

Location: London - We offer a range of hybrid and flexible working arrangements - please speak to your recruiter about the options for this particular role.

Grade: GG09-GG10

Referral Bonus: £5000

 

What You’ll Be Doing

 

Working on client sites you will support and lead engagements that deliver cyber risk assessments, improve security control maturity, define secure solutions and ensure compliance.

 

  • Delivery of small to medium cyber security work-streams or engagements
  • Understanding business and information risk context of our customers and judging risk at a technical and business process level
  • Reviewing effectiveness of security controls and proposing proportionate security improvements and mitigations.
  • Analysing and researching security technologies to support the development of innovative solutions
  • Working and collaborating with account teams to identify new opportunities for work and support the production of quality proposals

 

Skills & Experience

 

  • Disaster Recovery knowledge/experience
  • Ability to articulate and pitch security advice, often at a technical level, directly to key customer stakeholders
  • Excellent interpersonal skills as well as both written and verbal communication and presentation skills.
  • Can evaluate cyber security risk at the technical, system process and/or organisational level measuring the associated business impact using a structured approach
  • Can document and articulate to customer stakeholders how to manage cyber security risk utilising a structured approach based on industry framework.

 

The Team

 

We work hard and often go the extra mile, but we recognise people’s efforts and that everyone has a life outside of work. We encourage people to speak up if they want to rotate to a new project.

 

Benefits

 

As well as a competitive pension scheme, BAE Systems also offer employee share plan, an extensive range of flexible discounted health, wellbeing and lifestyle benefits including a green care scheme, private health plans and shopping discounts – you may also be eligible for an annual incentive.

 

Why BAE Systems?

 

This is a place where you’ll be able to make a real difference. You’ll be part of an inclusive culture that values diversity of thought, rewards integrity, and merit, and where you’ll be empowered to fulfil your potential. We welcome people from all backgrounds and want to make sure that our recruitment processes are as inclusive as possible. If you have a disability or health condition (for example dyslexia, autism, an anxiety disorder etc.) that may affect your performance in certain assessment types, please speak to your recruiter about potential reasonable adjustments.

 

Please be aware that many roles at BAE Systems are subject to both security and export control restrictions. These restrictions mean that factors such as your nationality, any nationalities you may have previously held, and your place of birth can restrict the roles you are eligible to perform within the organisation. All applicants must as a minimum achieve Baseline Personnel Security Standard. Many roles also require higher levels of National Security Vetting where applicants must typically have 5 to 10 years of continuous residency in the UK depending on the vetting level required for the role, to allow for meaningful security vetting checks.

 

Life at BAE Systems Digital Intelligence 

We are embracing Hybrid Working. This means you and your colleagues may be working in different locations, such as from home, another BAE Systems office or client site, some or all of the time, and work might be going on at different times of the day.

By embracing technology, we can interact, collaborate and create together, even when we’re working remotely from one another. Hybrid Working allows for increased flexibility in when and where we work, helping us to balance our work and personal life more effectively, and enhance well-being.

Diversity and inclusion are integral to the success of BAE Systems Digital Intelligence. We are proud to have an organisational culture where employees with varying perspectives, skills, life experiences and backgrounds – the best and brightest minds – can work together to achieve excellence and realise individual and organisational potential.

Division overview: Government

At BAE Systems Digital Intelligence, we pride ourselves in being a leader in the cyber defence industry, and Government contracts are an area we have many decades of experience in. Government and key infrastructure networks are critical targets to defend as the effects of these networks being breached can be devastating.

As a member of the Government business unit, you will defend the connected world and ensure the protection of nations. We all have a role to play in defending our clients, and this is yours.

 

 

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