Cyber Security Consultant (SC Cleared)
📍 Location: Bath / Bristol (BMT Group offices) - Hybrid (approx. 2 days onsite per week)
🚀 Start Date: ASAP
📅 Contract Duration: 6 months (with potential extension)
💰 Rate: Up to £650/day - Inside IR35
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🔐 Clearance Required: SC Cleared (Active, not lapsed)📌 Overview
We are seeking an experienced Cyber Security Consultant to support a UK defence programme involving IT, OT, and combat systems technologies.
⚠️ This is a highly niche requirement requiring a rare combination of defence, OT, and cyber security expertise.
🛠️ Key Responsibilities
- 🔍 Conduct cyber security risk assessments (threats, vulnerabilities, controls)
- 🧠 Analyse and assess complex IT & OT systems and network architectures
- 📄 Develop and review RMADS documentation, including:
- Treatment Plans
- Implementation Plans
- Assurance Plans
- Gap Analysis
- 🛡️ Apply security controls and mitigation strategies
- ✅ Support security accreditation of systems
- 🧪 Define security testing requirements and protocols
- 🏭 Participate in FAT & SAT testing
- 💻 Perform/support penetration testing
- 📢 Provide technical cyber security advice
- ✍️ Produce high-quality technical documentation
- 🤝 Communicate complex technical concepts to stakeholders
🎯 Required Skills & Experience
✅ Essential
- 🔐 Proven experience in cyber risk assessment & mitigation
- 🧩 Ability to analyse complex IT & OT systems
- 🌐 Experience with network architectures (IT & OT)
- ⚙️ Knowledge of Operational Technology (OT) or similar systems (e.g. aircraft, ships, combat systems, UAVs)
- 🧪 Experience scoping security testing requirements
- ✍️ Excellent technical writing & communication skills
➕ Desirable
- 🏗️ Experience delivering security accredited systems
- 📑 Experience with RMADS documentation
- 🖥️ Exposure to:
- SIEM, IDS, Firewalls
- 🔑 Encryption technologies
- 🔌 Industrial protocols (MODbus, Profinet, CANbus, TCP/IP)
- ⚡ PLC systems (e.g. Siemens S7)
🎓 Qualifications (Desirable)
- 🥇 CISSP
- 🧾 CompTIA Network+
- 🛡️ CompTIA CySA+
- 🎓 SANS / GIAC
🔒 Security & Compliance
- 🔐 Active SC Clearance required
- 🪪 Must be eligible for BPSS clearance
Randstad Technologies is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.