Senior Consultant - Cyber Security

Senior Cyber Security Consultant NOT A SOC ROLE - it sits in our consulting team, not our SOC. Important: you must be UK based - we are unable to provide visa sponsorship, and you must meet all 4 minimum requirements below.

Overview

• Salary: starts at £52,000 depending on experience.
• Holiday: 24 days paid holiday (pro rata) + your birthday off + bank holidays + one extra holiday day for every 12 months you stay with us.
• Working Together: We spend three days per week together in our lovely London office (39 floors up in Canary Wharf). The rest of the time, you can choose to work from wherever you are most productive and happy.
• Working Hours: 8hrs per day Mon-Fri, 40hrs per week.
• Training: individual training plan and budget for one certification/course per year.
• Socials: We meet regularly to have a drink, throw some axes.
• Start Date: October 2026.

Minimum Requirements

You must meet all 4 of these minimum requirements, please do not apply if you do not - your application will be rejected.

• Education: a graduate from a UK University with a technical academic background in computer science, software engineering, information security, or a related field.
• IT literacy: confident using Microsoft Office applications, especially Word, Excel, Outlook and PowerPoint.
• Fluent in English: as this role has some client facing and business development elements, you must be highly proficient with business level English.
• Location: must be within 90 mins commute of Canary Wharf, London.

About CyPro

We are an innovative cyber security start-up united in a shared mission: to redefine cyber security for small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs).

Client Side Delivery

At least 3 - 4 years working within cyber security, ideally with experience in a consulting capacity, at an MSSP or in-house within industry. Proven ability to deliver high quality security projects, and coordinate with stakeholders, including client senior management and technical teams. Deliver very high quality work, acting as a team expert in the Microsoft suite (Excel, PowerPoint, etc.). This delivery will include but not limited to:

• Preparing and delivering monthly executive and operational governance meetings.
• Identifying and recording cyber risks, defining appropriate remedial actions.
• Leading operational delivery for client certification audits, e.g. ISO 27001, CE+ and SOC2.
• Supporting our Security Operations Centre during incident response, ensuring effective threat mitigation.
• Raising cyber security awareness through our entertaining bulletin, blogs, phishing simulations and tabletop exercises.
• Co-ordinating penetration tests to improve client security.
• Leading the response to third-party due diligence questionnaires and assessing new vendors.
• Ensuring you continue to make yourself marketable and credible to clients and prospects by maintaining professional accreditations. A Senior Consultant would be expected to have at least 2 professional accreditations such as CompTIA+, ISO27001 Lead Auditor or CC (Certified in Cyber Security) or CISSP or CISM.

Practice Development

Regularly support the improvement of our internal operations under direction from a Manager or above. Start to drive forward activities (not just in a supporting role) that improve the operation of the company such as:

• Designing and implementing new business processes.
• Successfully implementing automation and AI to speed up client delivery (securely and controlled).
• Maintaining a bank of client deliverable templates and assets.

People Management

Whilst no formal line management responsibilities as yet, a Senior Consultant will be able to demonstrate periodic examples of managing individual Consultants and Analysts. Starting to act as a role model of professionalism for junior members of the team. For example, you:

• Have mandatory training completed on time – no chasing required.
• Task management in Teamwork is always up-to-date and organised.
• Timesheets are never missing or late.
• Helping graduates (and other team members where appropriate) onboard and embed within the team.

Business Development

Support the winning of new work for the company by:

• Responsible for drafting of proposals and bids to a high standard.
• Contributing to discovery call minutes and proposals.
• Enabling/running outreach and business development processes.
• Contribute to our thought leadership by regularly writing engaging cyber security blogs.
• Start contributing to the external CyPro brand, such as writing cyber security service pages for the CyPro website.

Soft Skills

There are a handful of ‘soft skills’ which are of critical importance when fulfilling a Consultant role. For example:

• Effective – a Consultant is able to “make sh*t happen”. They are not someone who finds reasons why something didn’t happen. They constantly find ways round obstacles, gain traction and get things done.
• Accountable.