Information Security Consultant

Company Description

Turner & Townsend is a global professional services company with over 22,000 people in more than 60 countries.
Working with our clients across real estate, infrastructure, energy and natural resources, we transform together delivering outcomes that improve people’s lives. Working in partnership makes it possible to deliver the world’s most impactful projects and programmes as we turn challenge into opportunity and complexity into success.
Our capabilities include programme, project, cost, asset and commercial management, controls and performance, procurement and supply chain, net zero and digital solutions.
We are majority-owned by CBRE Group, Inc., the world’s largest commercial real estate services and investment firm, with our partners holding a significant minority interest. Turner & Townsend and CBRE work together to provide clients with the premier programme, project and cost management offering in markets around the world.
Please visit our website: www.turnerandtownsend.com

Job Description

As a member of the IT Security team, you will review all aspects of the IT environment and its components. This role shall be responsible for supporting and maintaining enterprise-wide solutions. The successful candidate will be required to proactively improve and provide advice and guidance on information security matters. We believe this is an excellent opportunity for candidates who have a strong understanding of IT infrastructure and/or information security within a fast-paced environment.

SOX control responsibilities may be part of this role, which are to be adhered to where applicable.

• Assist with security incident management and response activities.
• General day-to-day support on managing and responding to security alerts from systems and end users.
• Perform daily, weekly, and monthly security checks, reconciliation and compliance checks and investigate exceptions.
• Completing client security requirement questionnaires and support the bidding process.
• Identify and raise awareness of security risks.
• Develop and enhance security policies, processes, procedures, and technical controls to strengthen Turner & Townsend’s security capabilities and resilience to cyber threats.
• Take a proactive role in identifying security risks, mitigations, and opportunities to strengthen Turner & Townsend’s resilience to cyber-attacks and security incidents.
• Participate in the design and implementation of systems and applications.
• Develop user and technical training guides.
• Maintain and manage the IT Risk register.
• Test DR plans and capabilities to ensure they work as designed, identifying gaps and lessons learnt and work with the business to drive continual development and enhancement

Qualifications

Technical Requirements:

• Two years hands-on experience of security and/or infrastructure within an enterprise environment.
• Exposure to enterprise information security standards including Cyber Essentials, ISO 27001, 27002 etc. Data Protection Act and the General Data Protection Regulation.
• Microsoft O365 Security solutions; Networking; Security operations; Vulnerability Management; Security Auditing.
• Good understanding of security testing principles, including experience of vulnerability scanning, identifying, resolving, and reporting risks.
• Experience of formal document creation, such as the creation of reports or procedures.

Detailed knowledge of:

• Microsoft O365 environment.
• Threat Intelligence analysis and best practice.
• Security Incident Response processes, procedures, and best practices ▪ Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity principles.
• Event and log analysis.

Core Behavioural Skills:

• Confident individual with the good interpersonal skills, able to deal with people at all levels and communicate to users in a clear, non-technical language.
• Team-player
• Analytically minded, able to break down and understand information
• Must be comfortable with working in a fast-moving, dynamic environment
• Strongly customer-focused, used to providing support to demanding users
• Good organisational skills, used to managing and prioritising own workload
• Ability to report on progress, timescales, outstanding and completed activities

Additional Information

Our inspired people share our vision and mission. We provide a great place to work, where each person has the opportunity and voice to affect change.

We want our people to succeed both in work and life. To support this we promote a healthy, productive and flexible working environment that respects work-life balance. 

Turner & Townsend is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees and actively encourage applications from all sectors of the community.

Please find out more about us at www.turnerandtownsend.com/

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