Cyber security Architects in London

Our mission is to improve and safeguard public-facing services. We apply digital thinking to ensure the future of our public services is centred around our citizens. Our human touch sets us apart from other consultancies, system integrators and software houses - we have a customer-centric value system whereby we focus on delivering what is right for our clients. We passionately support our clients in the success of their projects while working collaboratively to share skill sets and solve problems. Methods are experts in delivering secure, resilient cyber and information services – keeping systems and data safe.

We help reduce risk and vulnerabilities from cyber-attacks by developing a security road-map tailored to your unique needs. We help organisations improve processes such as threat management by building an identity management programme, and establishing prevention, detection and response capabilities to cyber-attacks.

The Cyber Security Consultant will have the following responsibilities:

• Effective business acumen and an understanding of the cyber security challenges faced by clients, with the ability to interact with senior stakeholders across departments.
• Experience of identifying and applying security risk and familiarity with common control frameworks.
• Managing, delivering and leading cyber security and cyber risk assignments, including producing documentation, reports, recommendations and quality assuring the work produced by team members.
• Working as a subject matter expert in your particular field to support a team and managing a larger team in delivering engagements at scale, with the appropriate reach and influence across the teams and communities.
• Maintaining awareness of key business and industry trends and understanding how they impact responses to cyber risk.
• Develop vision, principles and strategy for security architects for one project or technology.
• Providing our clients with trusted advice, rooted in a pragmatic and agnostic understanding of their business situation and objectives, to help them navigate complex, risk-driven Cyber decisions.
• Contributing to development of information security policy, standards, procedures and guidelines.

An experienced consultant with a background in Cyber Security:

• Minimum 3-5 years of experience in Information Security related positions.
• Certification in AWS or Azure for Architecture and Security or similar.
• Knowledge of secure network architecture and technical design.
• Experience in creating secure architecture in either AWS or Azure.
• Experience providing expert strategy, risk and technical advice, guidance and support on cyber security, both in business-as-usual and for live and planned projects within our clients’ business.
• Broad range of cyber and information security skills, knowledge and experience such as security threats and vulnerabilities that impact/and/or emanate from system hardware, software and other infrastructure components, and relevant strategies, controls and activities to prevent, mitigate, detect and resolve security incidents affecting system hardware, software and other infrastructure components.
• Able to gap analysis for specific domains, identify gaps in existing capabilities, service maturity. Identify missing cybersecurity and cyber-resiliency capabilities in alignment with changing business needs, threat landscape and technical requirements to increase the quality of the selected solutions.