Information Security Specialist

Salary/ Benefits
In order to attract the very best talent on the market a generous remuneration package is on offer £60,000 - £70,000 based on experience plus bonus and a range of benefits including:

The Client
VANRATH are pleased to be working with an industry leading technical services firm who are recruiting for a high calibre candidate to fill the position of Information Security Specialist.

The Ideal Person

• Experience in Information Security / Cyber Security (ideally to the ISO27001 / Cyber Essentials frameworks).
• Educated to degree level (or equivalent).
• Ideally hold at least one of the following qualifications: CISM, CISSP, CISA, CRISC or CEH.
• Excellent interpersonal skills, the ability to build and maintain relationships and work cross functionally and interact confidently.
• Proficient in the use of MS packages including Word, Excel and Outlook

The Role

• Ensuring that the Information Security Management System (ISMS) conforms to the requirements of ISO27001, Cyber Essentials, DSP Toolkit and all other required standards.
• Liaising with relevant stakeholders to ensure that policies and processes needed within the ISMS are established, implemented, maintained, communicated and understood by the business.
• Reporting to the CTO, CCO and InfoSec Management Review Forum on performance of the ISMS (including its objectives) and any need for improvement.
• Conducting risk assessment activities, including identification of assets, business impact assessment, threat and vulnerability assessment, compliance assessment, and proposing risk treatment, on a day-to-day basis.
• Maintaining our risk treatment plan, allocating responsibilities, actions and target dates and updating actions.
• Managing and implementing regular personnel Information Security awareness and training programs.
• Managing, investigating and escalating information security incidents.
• Reviewing information security content within supplier and customer contracts.
• Managing and implementing ISMS audit schedules and audits (internal, external and customer).
• Managing and maintaining records of corrective actions arising from audits.
• Providing assistance and advice on Information Security matters to the rest of the company.
• Maintaining our Statement of Applicability.
• Managing and monitoring corrective, preventive and improvement actions through the continual improvement programme.
• Collecting and reviewing measurement and performance metrics and monitoring the effectiveness of the ISMS and associated controls and policies.
• Providing assistance and guidance on policy implementation for Telefónica Tech employees.
• Ensuring the integrity of the ISMS is maintained when changes to them are planned and implemented.
• Ensuring that our processes are delivering their intended outputs

For further information on this vacancy, or any other Cyber Security, Networks or IT Sales roles in Belfast or wider Northern Ireland, please apply via the link below or contact Jordan Madden on 07871030483 in the strictest confidence.