Principal Security Consultant

5 days ago

Pietermaritzburg, South Africa Pronel Personnel Full time

**Responsibilities**:

- Deliver cyber security consulting services to clients including vCISO, technical audits, and strategy creation/delivery.
- Assist with cyber security related pre-sales work, including input into proposals and RFCs, attend client meetings and advise on solutions.
- Plan and oversee the cyber strategy.
- Oversee internal security monitoring, vulnerability posture and information protection.
- Work with the Information Security consulting team to provide guidance and input on cyber security elements.
- Meet revenue targets.
- Champion Cyber Security and promote a security service offered to clients, and the SOC operation, advising on and implementing improvements.
- Report on cyber security posture and ongoing improvements to the Group CEO and Leadership Team.
- Participate in regular client meetings as required to advise clients, support BizDev and TAMs, and sell cyber security services.
- Maintain and grow a broad network of contacts, including hosting events to increase the security exposure.

**Qualifications**

**Technical Skills**
- ISACA CISM or ISC2 CISSP
- EC Council Certified Ethical Hacker
- CompTIA Security+
- Networking Security certifications
- Microsoft certifications, preferably security focussed
- Other technical security certification (SIEM, EDR etc)

**Soft Skills**
- Exceptional interpersonal communication, ability to communicate at a business strategy level with C-Suite executives and at a technical level with engineers
- Well presented for client-facing engagements, possessing gravitas and confidence when engaging with clients.
- Experience delivering client facing presales and consulting engagements
- Excellent written communication skills, able to write documentation for all levels of business, from executive summaries to forensic incident investigation reports
- Possessing an understanding of business strategy
- Understanding of global Security trends and developments, and the implications of international cyber security developments
- Demonstrable history of good job performance

**Professional membership of at least 1 international security related body.**

**Desirable Experience**

Exposure to and understanding of business strategy is vital to delivering holistic security strategies to clients, along with a strong foundation in technical support and security consulting.
- At least 10 years in an information security role: o At least 5 years in technical roles
- At least 5 years in a cyber security role
- Previous Team Leadership experience
- Experience delivering consulting work to multiple clients simultaneously
- Knowledge of cyber security frameworks (NIST, Cyber Essentials, etc)
- Experience overseeing SOC teams
- Experience designing and delivering cyber security strategies to clients and internally
- Experience with security incident investigation and response
- Experience designing and implementing security programmes

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