Cyber Exercising Consultant

We believe in the power of ingenuity to build a positive human future. We challenge where it matters and own the outcome. We combine strategic thinking, customer-centric service design, and agile engineering practices to accelerate innovation in a tech-driven world.

Join our Digital & Data team working alongside product, design and a wide range of other experts and cross-disciplinary teams to bring ideas to life through innovative software solutions. Grow a flexible and unique career within a trust-based, inclusive environment that values excellence, innovation, and curiosity. You have the option to progress with us on a technical career track. No need to go onto the Partner career track if this doesn’t align with what you want to do.

Hybrid working - our approach is to be in the office or on client site a minimum of 2 days per week. Work on a broad variety of projects and tech stacks for clients across seven sectors - no project is ever the same. Join other experts within our supportive and collaborative tech community through knowledge-sharing and peer-level support, coaching and mentoring. Deepen your expertise through our culture of learning and growth – you’ll have budget to take courses (technical and non-technical training), plus gain certifications.

Our capability and tools:

• Our team deliver dozens of cyber and resilience exercises each year.
• You can expect to work with a range of approaches, tools, and disciplines to deliver high-quality resilience and exercising outcomes, including:
• Our exercising methodologies to create engaging tabletop and live cyber incident exercises.
• Incident response, crisis management and post-incident review structures.

What you can expect:

• Work with clients to design, develop, and deliver scenario exercises, including operational resilience severe-but-plausible scenarios and cyber-attack simulations (ransomware, data breach, DDoS, insider threat etc.)
• Use your technical and analytical skills to help clients problem-solve, assess maturity, and strengthen cyber security and resilience capabilities, as well as contributing to internal propositions and innovation.
• Take ownership for delivering high quality impactful exercises to test responses to operational disruptions.
• Hybrid working with the team or on client site for a minimum of two days per week. Time spent on site may vary by assignment.

Even if you don’t meet every requirement below, feel free to still apply as we are often hiring for similar roles which your background might be better suited to.

Significant hands-on experience designing, developing, and delivering exercises and scenario tests, such as:

• Operational resilience severe-but-plausible scenario testing
• Cyber-attack simulations (e.g. ransomware, data breach, DDoS)
• Incident and crisis management exercises
• Cross-functional or cross-business exercises involving multiple senior stakeholders

Deep understanding of operational resilience or cyber security frameworks, such as dependency mapping, impact tolerances, scenario testing, important business services, threat modelling, or incident response.

Track record of confidentially facilitating exercises at operational and management levels. Ability to translate complex resilience or cyber threats into clear exercise objectives, injects, and evaluation criteria. Strong experience facilitating exercises with senior leadership teams, including running structured debriefs and producing high-quality reports.

You thrive in problem-solving and analytical thinking, with the ability to draw out insights and actionable recommendations. You enjoy collaborating with multiple stakeholders in a fast-paced environment, working confidently with technical and non-technical teams.

Please be aware that some of our UK roles at PA Consulting require a UK security clearance. All PA people are required to undergo background checks and to achieve the Baseline Personnel Security Standard however, some UK roles also require higher levels of National Security Vetting, where applicants must have at least 5 years of continuous residency in the UK. We therefore ask that you only apply if you meet the residency requirements (i.e. you are a British citizen or have been resident in the UK for the past 5 years), as this is the prerequisite for a security clearance. If you’re unsure about your eligibility, we encourage you to review the UK Government’s guidance on security vetting before applying.

Additional Information: Please note that the interview stages may be subject to change based on the specific requirements of the role.

• Quick call with one of our Tech Recruiters – to discuss your application, the role and PA
• Round 1: Either a competency or technical interview (60 mins)
• Round 2: Either a competency or technical interview, whichever you didn’t do at first round (60 mins)
• Final round: Meeting with a PA leader - a mini case study and discussion around your client-centricity (60 mins)

Life At PA encompasses our peoples' experience at PA. It’s about how we enrich peoples’ working lives by giving them access to unique people and growth opportunities and purpose led meaningful work. Our purpose guides how we work with our clients and our teams, and support our communities, to deliver insight and impact, solving the world’s most complex challenges.

We’re focused on building a workplace that values human difference and diverse mindsets, and a culture of inclusion and equality that unlocks the potential in our people so everyone can be their best self. We are dedicated to supporting the physical, emotional, social and financial well-being of our people.

Check out some of our extensive benefits:

• Health and lifestyle perks accompanying private healthcare for you and your family
• 25 days annual leave (plus a bonus half day on Christmas Eve) with the opportunity to buy 5 additional days
• Generous company pension scheme
• Opportunity to get involved with community and charity-based initiatives
• Annual performance-based bonus
• PA share ownership
• Tax efficient benefits (cycle to work, give as you earn)

We’re committed to advancing equality. We recruit, retain, reward and develop our people based solely on their abilities and contributions and without reference to their age, background, disability, genetic information, parental or family status, religion or belief, race, ethnicity, nationality, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity (or expression), political belief, veteran status, any other range of human difference brought about by identity and experience. We welcome applications from underrepresented groups.

Adjustments or accommodations - Should you need any adjustments or accommodations to the recruitment process, at either application or interview, please contact us on recruitmentenquiries@paconsulting.com