Salary: £50,000 - 75,000 per year
Requirements
- Passion for improving the UK public sector security posture
- Strong understanding of cybersecurity principles and risk management
- Experience applying security technologies to architectures and solution designs, such as Privilege Access Management, SSO, IDAM, network security, and encryption
- Understanding of IT infrastructure, technical concepts, and design methodologies
- Understanding of threat modelling and development of reference architecture
- Ability to learn and adapt quickly
- Preferred hands-on experience in network and/or cloud security
- Ideally hold SABSA, CISSP, or a similar certification
- Preferred current Government Security Clearance (SC, DV, etc.) or ability to gain clearance
Responsibilities
- Design security architectures for a range of IT solutions, including large digital transformation programmes
- Provide advisory support to wider complex transformation programmes that shape the future of the UK
- Advise clients on regulatory compliance, including ISO 27001, NIST, GDPR, and PCI-DSS
- Communicate secure design solutions and IT risk mitigation strategies to a wide range of stakeholders
- Solve challenging security problems through research and innovation
- Identify security vulnerabilities in system architectures and articulate them using risk terminology
Technologies
- AI
- Cloud
- Support
- Network
- Security
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We are a leading global professional services company helping the worlds leading businesses, governments, and other organizations build their digital core, optimize operations, accelerate revenue growth, and enhance citizen services. We work across more than 120 countries with approximately 791,000 people, combining strength in technology, cloud, data, AI, industry expertise, and global delivery capability. This role is based in Newcastle with a hybrid working setup, and we offer a competitive salary and package, 25 to 30 days of vacation per year, private medical insurance, and 3 extra days of leave for charitable work of your choice. Flexibility and mobility are required, as there may be a need to spend time onsite with clients and partners.
last updated 36 week of 2026
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Security Consultant in Holywood employer: Accenture
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