Security Consultant

Company Description

Version 1 has celebrated 30 years in business and continues to be trusted by global brands to deliver technology and transformation solutions that drive customer success. Our deep expertise enables our customers to navigate the rapidly evolving technology landscape. We foster strong partnerships with global technology leaders including Microsoft, AWS, Oracle, Red Hat, Out Systems, Snowflake, ensuring that our customers are provided with the highest quality solutions and services.

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We are seeking a hands-on Security Consultant who can combine deep technical delivery capability with strong client-facing consulting skills. The ideal candidate will be comfortable assessing, designing, improving and governing security controls across cloud environments, applications, APIs, infrastructure and enterprise security domains. This role requires someone who can challenge customer security assumptions, influence stakeholders, and lead difficult but constructive conversations to drive secure outcomes.

• Assess current-state security maturity, identify control gaps, and define pragmatic remediation roadmaps aligned to business priorities.
• Lead and support security architecture reviews across cloud, applications, infrastructure, IAM, data protection and detection/response domains.
• Provide expert consulting to customers on security strategy, risk reduction, control design, and security operating model improvements.
• Challenge weak security assumptions with confidence, using evidence-based recommendations and clear communication with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Design and review secure cloud landing zones, network segmentation, identity models, logging/monitoring patterns, and guardrails.
• Partner with engineering, platform, Dev Ops and operations teams to embed security into delivery pipelines and infrastructure as code practices.
• Support threat detection, incident response readiness, use-case tuning, and post-incident improvement activities.
• Contribute to security standards, policies, patterns, reusable accelerators, and client-facing deliverables including assessments, risk registers and executive summaries.

• Cloud Security (preferably AWS)
• Hands-on experience securing cloud environments, preferably AWS, including core services, networking, identity, logging, encryption and security monitoring.
• Experience reviewing or implementing secure cloud architectures, landing zones, account/project structures, and preventative/detective controls.
• Knowledge of cloud-native security services and best practices for workload, storage, network and platform protection.
• Application / API Security
• Experience identifying and mitigating application and API security risks across the software delivery lifecycle.
• Understanding of secure design principles, common web/API vulnerabilities, authentication/authorization models, secrets management and secure SDLC practices.
• Ability to work with development teams to improve application security posture and shift security left.
• SIEM Experience
• Hands-on experience with SIEM platforms for log onboarding, correlation rule creation, alert triage, dashboarding and use-case tuning.
• Ability to improve visibility, reduce noise, and align SIEM content to relevant threats and business risks.
• Organisation / General Security
• Broad understanding of enterprise security domains including policy, governance, risk, compliance, awareness, third-party risk and operational security.
• Experience translating business and regulatory requirements into practical security controls and improvement plans.
• Identity & Access Management (IAM)
• Hands-on experience with identity and access management…