Cyber Security Consultant Apprentice, Bristol

We support helping you settle in to your new location ensuring you are familiar with the team and have a warm welcome from day 1. There is a member of our Apprentice team at each site, helping you progress, ensuring your study time is protected, enabling access to digital learning as well as opportunities to get involved with the local community and STEM projects, enhancing many aspects of each programme.

We are currently expanding our Bristol based Cyber Security Consulting Team practice and are looking to recruit a number of Cyber Security Consultant Apprentices. You must be a team player who has the drive, a keen passion for all things IT, and the enthusiasm to play a crucial role in supporting the delivery of cyber security across our external customers and in-house product delivery teams. This role will provide you with a unique opportunity to work on some of the UK’s leading edge cyber security projects, that will have a direct impact on protecting the UK now and in the future.

Reporting to a Senior Cyber Security Consultant, with tasking guided by our Head of Consulting, you will have the opportunity to develop your skills and knowledge helping to provide comprehensive and effective cyber security and resilience support to a number of customer delivery scenarios as well as your own assigned cyber security development project.

As a Cyber Security Consultant Apprentice, you will work alongside experienced IT professionals to identify and mitigate potential security risks, analyse security threats, and develop solutions to protect our customers' systems and data. Within this time, you will undertake a Level 4 apprenticeship scheme that offers the opportunity to work across the different functions within the Division for three years, gaining a Level 4 Cyber Security Technologist qualification.

• A passion for cyber security and a keen interest in IT
• Awareness of the different types of cyber threats
• Excellent IT skills, including knowledge or awareness of computer networks, operating systems, software, hardware, and security, as well as an awareness of the cyber security risks associated with various technologies and ways to manage them
• Great team working skills for collaborating with team members and users
• Ability to self-manage own time with good organisational skills to manage a variety of tasks and meet deadlines
• Must have the ability to multitask and prioritise your workload

• The primary role of a Cyber Security Apprentice is to apply an understanding of cyber threats, hazards, risks, controls, measures, and mitigation to protect organisations and people.
• Those focused on the technical side will work on areas such as security design and architecture, security testing, investigations & response.
• Those focused on the risk analysis side will work on areas such as operations, risk, governance, and compliance.
• Whether focused on the technical or risk analysis side, all people in this occupation work to achieve required security outcomes in a legal and regulatory context.
• You will develop and apply practical knowledge in information security to deliver solutions that fulfil the organisation's requirements.
• Gain invaluable experience by learning challenging theory and applying this on-the-job.
• Develop the knowledge and skills required, such as how to defend against attack techniques and sources of threat, risk management, and building a security case, to equip you to be a future Cyber Security Consultant.

• Excellent organisation and planning skills
• Excellent listening and observation skills
• Excellent levels of IT competency (Microsoft Office software including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook)
• Ability to communicate in a clear and constructive way
• Act with honesty and respect for others
• Demonstrate a positive flexible attitude
• Take responsibility for our actions
• Be committed to one team

Your base location will be from our offices in Bristol. We have a hybrid workstyle with flexible working which provides the opportunity to work from home when required.

• Pension: Award-winning pension scheme (up to 10% employer contribution)
• Holidays: 25 days plus bank holidays, option to buy/sell leave and to accrue up to 12 additional flexi leave days per year
• Wellbeing: Employee Assistance Programme, access to Mental Health support, Financial wellbeing support, network groups (Enable, Pride, Equalise, Reservists, Carers)
• Lifestyle: Discounted Gym membership, Cycle to work scheme
• Company funded flexible benefits: Access to private healthcare, dental schemes, Workplace ISA, Go Green Car Scheme, technology and lifestyle options (£500 annual allowance)
• Training: Free access to more than 4000 online courses via Coursera
• Referral Incentive: You can earn a reward for successfully referring a friend or family member
• Bonus: Scheme in place for all employees at management level and below