About the Role
Moore Kingston Smith is seeking an experienced Cyber Security Consultant to join their Risk Advisory team. This role involves helping clients strengthen cyber resilience and manage evolving security risks within an NCSC-recognised cyber security practice. It is a hands-on consulting position working with diverse organizations to provide tailored advice for operational resilience and regulatory compliance.
Responsibilities
- Lead and support the delivery of cyber and information security assessments, audits, and control reviews.
- Identify and assess security control weaknesses, articulate risks, and provide recommendations.
- Produce high-quality documentation including audit reports, risk assessments, and advisory outputs.
- Collaborate with stakeholders to design or enhance security control environments aligned to frameworks such as ISO 27001, NIST CSF, CIS Controls, and Cyber Essentials.
- Maintain up-to-date knowledge of cyber threats, mitigation strategies, regulatory requirements, and industry best practices.
- Contribute to the continuous improvement of internal methodologies and security services.
- Build and maintain strong client relationships with a service-focused mindset.
- Identify client challenges and future needs for service expansion.
- Contribute to business development by supporting proposal creation, project scoping, thought leadership, and collaborating on presentations, tenders, and workshops.
Requirements
- Experience within cyber security consulting, security auditing, or risk advisory roles.
- Experience in delivering client-facing cyber risk advisory services.
- Experience delivering assessments aligned with industry standards such as ISO 27001, NIST, CIS, NCSC 10 Steps, and GDPR.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, able to articulate technical jargon to non-technical audiences.
- Experience planning and delivering engagements independently and as part of a team within tight timescales, to budget, and to a high level of quality.
- Competent in working with a range of clients, from SMEs to large enterprise environments.
- Experience preparing, supporting, or auditing certification audits (e.g., ISO 27001, SOC 2, Cyber Essentials).
Skills
- ISO 27001
- NIST CSF
- CIS Controls
- Cyber Essentials
- ISO 27001 Lead Auditor/Implementer
- CISSP
- CISA
- CISM
- Penetration testing
- Vulnerability assessment
- AWS
- Azure
- GCP
- MS365
- Cloud security principles
- Operational Technology (OT)
- SANS standards
- SIEM
- Security automation
- Implementing technical controls
- Hardening systems
- Securing networks
- Secure architecture design
Location
- City, London
Work Type
- Permanent
- Full Time
Experience Level
- Experienced
Salary/Compensations
- £42,000 - £50,000 / year
About the Company
- Moore Kingston Smith is a firm with a growing demand for cyber and information security services.
- They operate an NCSC-recognised cyber security practice within a wider business, technology and compliance risk advisory team.
