Senior Cyber Security Consultant

Join Reed Professional Services (RPS), a leading digital transformation consultancy, as a Senior Security Consultant. This role is pivotal in delivering security assurance, cloud security input, and technical risk management across live projects in a fast-paced, cloud-first and SaaS-led environment.

Day-to-day of the role:

• Deliver hands-on security assurance across cloud and SaaS-based services.
• Provide security input to AWS, SaaS, and IaaS environments.
• Assess and manage API and integration risks across complex estates.
• Produce and maintain assurance artefacts, risk logs, and control evidence.
• Support remediation activity and work with delivery teams to close security gaps.
• Challenge delivery teams constructively on security weaknesses and proposed designs.
• Support audits, reviews, and formal assurance processes as required.
• Operate across multiple projects simultaneously within a fast-moving environment.

• Strong experience in security assurance and risk management.
• Practical experience working with AWS and SaaS environments.
• Experience supporting integration-heavy landscapes.
• Ability to make clear, actionable security recommendations and see them through.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Comfortable working in live delivery settings rather than purely advisory roles.
• Ability to assess and communicate security risk positions and produce stakeholder-ready assurance outputs, including risk assessments, remediation plans, and security recommendations.
• Experience producing security assurance artefacts, risk assessments, remediation plans, and stakeholder-ready recommendations.
• Ability to engage with and challenge technical and senior business stakeholders on security risk and control decisions.
• Experience supporting remediation activities, driving actions through closure and evidencing outcomes.
• Experience working across multiple concurrent projects within a fast-paced delivery environment.
• Strong stakeholder management skills with the ability to communicate security risk clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences.

Desirable:

• Central government or public sector assurance experience.
• Experience with ServiceNow, Salesforce, or comparable enterprise SaaS platforms.
• Exposure to OT, IoT, or smart-building technology.
• Cloud or cyber security certifications (AWS, CISSP, CCSK, etc.).
• Experience of GovAssure or similar government assurance frameworks.
• Experience producing assurance documentation for regulated or audited environments.
• Experience supporting digital transformation programmes within Central Government.
• Understanding cloud security architecture principles within AWS environments.