Manager - Cyber Security Specialist

ABOUT SQUARCLE / THE TEAM

Squarcle is a growing strategy, operations and digital consultancy dedicated to driving the performance of our clients. We are people-orientated and pride ourselves on our people-first culture. Unlike many consultancies, Squarcle is as equally dedicated to delivery as it is to design.

Squarcle is committed to equality and diversity, and our aim is to build a diverse, dedicated, and high-performing team of subject matter experts to help our clients achieve resilient supply chain, asset management, and operational excellence.

As our business grows, we need to inject the right balance of a) established industry expertise, b) energetic new perspectives and c) people with experience delivering consulting projects at the pace, scale and quality our clients expect. We are looking for a handful of seasoned technology specialists to join our team. You will have experience in management consultancy with a minimum of five years track record in the delivery of cyber security services.

You will sit in the Squarcle Digital capabilities team. As a Manager at Squarcle you will benefit from:

• Working in the fastest growing management consultancy in the UK.
• Leading opportunity life cycles in a business willing to invest in market entry.
• Ownership of high impact delivery teams in a range of public and private sector organisations.

Squarcle is highly committed to equality and diversity in our recruitment and talent management processes.

The Cyber Security Specialist is responsible for supporting Squarcle clients in the protection of their digital assets, systems, and data by designing, implementing, and maintaining effective security controls. The role supports secure delivery of technology solutions across a range of Squarcle clients, ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements and alignment with best practice security standards.

This role works closely with solution architecture, software and data engineering, and supply chain design to embed security throughout the full lifecycle of systems and services provide by Squarcle.

Primary duties of the Cyber Security Specialist are:

• Define and implement security architectures for applications, infrastructure, and cloud environments.
• Conduct security design reviews and provide assurance across projects and programmes.
• Ensure alignment with standards such as ISO 27001, NIST, NCSC and Cyber Essentials Plus.

• Identify, assess, and manage cyber security risks across systems and suppliers.
• Support risk assessments, threat modelling, and vulnerability management.
• Ensure compliance with UK GDPR, data protection regulations, and organisational policies.

• Hands-on Azure cloud security experience, including implementation and operation of Microsoft Defender security tools (e.g., Defender for Cloud, Defender for Endpoint, Defender for Identity, Defender for Office 365) and security monitoring.
• Implement identity and access management (IAM), Privileged Identity Management (PIM) encryption, and network security controls.
• Design and run SIEM/SOAR use-cases in Microsoft Sentinel (data connectors, analytics rules, workbooks, automation playbooks) to support SOC operations, threat detection, and incident response.
• Support Dev Sec Ops  practices and secure software development.

• Develop and maintain security policies, standards, and procedures.
• Provide guidance and training to project teams and stakeholders.
• Promote a strong security culture across Squarcle.

• Support the internal staffing processes including performance management of assigned individuals.
• Encourage effective working in diverse teams within an inclusive team culture.
• Conduct performance reviews and annual appraisals for performance appraise es.
• Lead, coach and mentor team members.
• Monitor compliance of Squarcle policies and processes, ensuring engagements are delivered in accordance with the four phases of an engagement lifecycle;
  Sales, Mobilisation, Execution and Closure practice as stipulated within the Engagement Governance Process.

• Build and maintain strong relationships with…