CNI Cyber Security Consultant

NCC Group

Job Location:

Cheltenham - UK

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: 9 days ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Managing Consultant Critical National Infrastructure
Location: Hybrid with regular travel to client and operational sites across the UK sometimes at short notice.

Role Purpose

Operators of essential services face a rapidly evolving threat landscape especially as IT and OT environments continue to converge and regulatory expectations rise. NCC Groups Consulting & Implementation practice helps organisations strengthen cyber resilience by assessing risk improving controls implementing secure architectures and preparing for regulatory oversight. Our OT capability covers ICS SCADA and industrial networks with services including threat modelling attacksurface mapping embedded and firmware review and security architecture design.

Key Responsibilities

As a CNI Managing Consultant you will help organisations navigate frameworks such as the Cyber Assessment Framework (CAF) NIS and NIS2 translating them into proportionate actionable improvement plans. Your work directly strengthens the resilience of the UKs critical sectors which continue to face enduring and significant threat activity.

You will lead client engagements across the full consulting lifecycle from discovery and assessment through roadmap and implementation. The role includes shaping and delivering work in OT and CNI environments preparing clients for regulator inspections and providing clear recommendations that support safety availability and operational uptime.

Over the next 1224 months you will deliver measurable improvements in client resilience maturity and regulatory readiness. You may also integrate NCC Groups wider capabilities such as our Microsoftverified MXDR service for continuous monitoring and response.

Skills Knowledge and Expertise

You will succeed in this role if you:

Apply structured evidenceled assessment methods to identify risks and provide proportionate achievable improvements
Communicate clearly with engineering operations IT and leadership stakeholders ensuring complex issues are presented in a way that informs decisions
Lead delivery teams ensure highquality outputs and maintain strong relationships built on trust and clarity
Navigate OT environments confidently bringing practical understanding of ICS SCADA industrial networks and the operational realities around safety and uptime
Work effectively with regulatory frameworks such as NIS NIS2 and the NCSC CAF.
Understand how to prepare organisations for regulatory oversight including evidencepacks and roadmap development
Draw on wider capability where useful including incident readiness and IT/OT convergence retainers delivered jointly with Dragos
Hold SC clearance (or above).

When it comes to qualifications and certifications these are helpful but not mandatory: GICSP ISA/IEC 62443 certificates CISSP CISM CSSA.

Benefits

What do we offer in return

We have a high-performance culture which is balanced evenly with world-class well-being initiatives and benefits:

Flexible Working: Balance your work and personal life with our flexible working options.
Enhanced Holiday Allowance: Enjoy 25 days of holiday plus bank holidays with the option to buy up to 5 additional days of annual leave.
Medicash & Critical Illness Scheme
Financial & Investment Benefits: Enjoy peace of mind with our Pension Life Assurance and Share Save Scheme.
Community & Volunteering Programmes: Make a difference in your community with our volunteering opportunities.
Green Car Scheme: Drive green and save money with our eco-friendly car scheme.
Cycle Scheme: Stay fit and healthy with our cycle-to-work scheme.
Special Time Off: Take time off for those big moments in life like getting married/entering into a civil partnership becoming a grandparent and welcoming home a new pet.
Family Planning: Benefit from our generous maternity and paternity leave as well as time off and support for those undergoing fertility treatments.

Required Experience:

Contract

Managing Consultant Critical National Infrastructure Location: Hybrid with regular travel to client and operational sites across the UK sometimes at short notice.Role PurposeOperators of essential services face a rapidly evolving threat landscape especially as IT and OT environments continue to conv...