Technical Cyber Specialist

Join Reed Professional Services (RPS), a leading digital transformation consultancy, as a Security Consultant. This role is pivotal in supporting a fast-paced digital portfolio that includes cloud-hosted platforms, enterprise SaaS solutions, and integration-heavy services. Ideal for a strong mid-level consultant, this position offers the opportunity to work within delivery teams and support senior consultants in ensuring robust cyber security across our projects.

Day-to-day of the role:

• Support project-level security assurance and risk management activities.
• Gather and document control evidence and assurance artefacts.
• Maintain risk registers, actions, and remediation tracking.
• Support audits, reviews, and formal assurance processes.
• Work with delivery teams to implement agreed security controls.
• Assist with cloud and SaaS security assurance tasks.
• Ensure decisions, risks, and controls are clearly documented and traceable.
• Produce security risk assessments, risk positions, and pragmatic control recommendations across cloud, SaaS, and integration-heavy environments.
• Support remediation activity by working with delivery teams to agree actions, track progress, and evidence closure.
• Engage with architects, suppliers, programme teams, and senior stakeholders to provide effective security challenge and guidance.
• Create stakeholder-ready outputs including risk summaries, assurance updates, decision papers, and evidence packs.

• Experience supporting security assurance and risk management in live environments.
• Familiarity with cloud and SaaS platforms (AWS exposure preferred).
• Ability to work methodically with evidence, risks, and actions.
• Comfortable working across multiple workstreams.
• Practical, delivery-focused approach.
• Experience assessing security risks across API-driven and integration-heavy environments.
• Strong stakeholder management skills with the ability to challenge delivery teams constructively.
• Ability to develop risk positions, remediation plans, and actionable security recommendations.
• Excellent written communication skills, producing concise assurance documentation for technical and non-technical audiences.
• Experience engaging with stakeholders ranging from engineers and architects to senior security leadership.

Desirable Skills:

• Exposure to public sector or regulated environments.
• Experience with ServiceNow, Salesforce, or similar SaaS platforms.
• Interest or exposure to OT / IoT / PropTech security.
• Exposure to GovAssure or government assurance frameworks.
• Experience working within central government environments.
• Knowledge of cloud security architecture principles within AWS environments.

Soft Skills:

• Strong stakeholder engagement and relationship-building skills.
• Able to act as a constructive “critical friend” when identifying security risks and weaknesses.
• Comfortable operating in fast-paced environments with multiple competing priorities.
• Pragmatic approach, balancing security requirements with delivery objectives.