Junior Information Security Consultant - Canary Wharf/London - Hybrid

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Global client has a fantastic opportunity for a Junior Information Security Consultant to work with their existing team to manage the portfolio of security controls, including level 1 triage of alerts and daily checks across multiple security systems, maintain technical controls to meet security requirements, and implement approved configuration changes.

Responsibilities include:

• Work with information security leadership to deploy agreed changes to security requirements and address identified security risks.
• Raise information security awareness and support training activities.
• Coordinate and complete information security operations documentation.
• Collaborate on IT projects to ensure security issues are addressed throughout the project life cycle.
• Advise security administrators on normal and exception-based processing of security authorization requests.
• Research and evaluate new threats and advise on necessary communications or extra controls to counter them.
• Manage ServiceNow tickets assigned to security team members and escalate when deadlines are likely to be missed.
• Incident Detection and Response: provide 1st and 2nd line support and analysis during and after a security incident while ensuring guidelines for recording security incidents are followed.

As a Junior Information Security Consultant, you will demonstrate knowledge and appreciation of current IT threats and security measures, combining business awareness with technical IT knowledge or experience. Ideally you will have 2+ years of relevant work experience, with some knowledge of IT security demonstrated through work experience or qualifications. You should possess knowledge and understanding of information risk concepts and principles, relate business needs to security controls, and have technical knowledge of mainstream operating systems (mainly Microsoft Windows) and security technologies (network security appliances, identity and access management systems, anti-malware solutions, desktop security tools). A basic understanding of network infrastructure and risk assessment methods and technologies is also required.

This is a superb career opportunity with a salary up to £35,000 plus a bonus up to 10%, salary review to 10%, hybrid working, and a benefits package that includes: pension (employer contributes up to 7% of salary, up to a max of 10% based on employee contributions), healthcare, employee assistance programme, interest-free travel season ticket loan (upon completion of probation), gym membership, medical cover, Health Cash Plan, etc.

This role is commutable from London, Home counties, London, Kent, Hertfordshire, Essex, Cambridgeshire, Berkshire, Sussex, Hampshire, Oxfordshire.

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