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Cyber Security Principal Consultant

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Broster Buchanan

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United Kingdom , London or Birmingham

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Salary:

55000.00 - 65000.00 GBP / Year

Job Description:

Our client is recruiting for a Cyber Security Principal Consultant to join their consulting team, specialising in Cyber Security within Technology Risk Assurance, where you will be responsible for assisting in managing, delivering and leading cyber engagements across a diverse portfolio of clients across the breadth of the mid-market, ensuring both excellent client service and identification of further work opportunities. The role will involve managing the delivery of agreed work activities with a primary focus on technical security including offensive security services (OSCP, CompTIA PenTest+).

Job Responsibility:

  • Contributing towards the development of exciting new market facing cyber security products and services and internal knowledge sharing hubs
  • Delivering cyber security engagements, from scoping through to delivery, debriefs and report writing
  • Supporting the development of other members of the team
  • Representing the client in external meetings, including attendance at client workshops, audit committees, and regional networking events
  • Building trusted relationships with senior client stakeholders and identifying client and service opportunities
  • Assisting in managing, delivering and leading cyber engagements across a diverse portfolio of clients across the breadth of the mid-market, ensuring both excellent client service and identification of further work opportunities
  • Managing the delivery of agreed work activities with a primary focus on technical security including offensive security services (OSCP, CompTIA PenTest+)

Requirements:

  • Experience of working in professional services firms
  • Demonstrable experience of delivering and leading cyber security advisory and offensive security testing engagements
  • Demonstrable experience of delivering advisory engagements relevant to security operations and defensive controls
  • Understand technology trends, cyber threats, and industry issues
  • Proficient in report writing
  • Experience with security testing techniques such as threat modelling, reconnaissance, social engineering, enumeration, attack path mapping, exploitation, and clean up from a variety of adversarial perspectives (white/grey/black box testing)
  • Proficient in infrastructure and web application testing
  • Proficient in using common commercial and open-source penetration testing tool sets including Kali Linux, Metasploit, Nmap, BurpSuite, Nessus and other industry standard tools
  • Hold an industry recognised certification (this can be at any level from Offensive Security Certified Professional (OSCP)
  • CompTIA PenTest+
  • CHECK, CREST)
  • Motivated to lead with purpose, innovate, and make a genuine lasting impact
  • Takes responsibility for work tasks and quality, managing own workload and deadlines under supervision

Nice to have:

Experience in API testing desirable

Additional Information:

Job Posted:
March 19, 2026

Employment Type:
Fulltime
Work Type:
Hybrid work
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