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Cyber Security Lead
Location: Knowsley, Liverpool – (Hybrid, with occasional client visits
Salary: £40k – £50k + Performance Bonus up to 50% of salary+ Bupa Medical
Employment Type: Full-time, Permanent
About Curveball Solutions
At Curveball Solutions, we’re proud to be more than an IT provider we strive to become an extension of your business: a trusted partner. From our early days in 1998 as a mobile services start-up, we’ve grown into a full-service MSP offering cloud, communications, cybersecurity, and IT support always with a tailored approach, unwavering reliability, and exceptional customer service at our core.
Our values centre on customer-centricity, innovation, transparency, and trust. We actively prevent security risks and deliver solutions designed for each client’s unique challenges never “one size fits all”.
We’re seeking a passionate Cyber Security Lead to shape, elevate, and deliver Curveball’s cybersecurity offering.
You’ll be the cornerstone of our proactive protection and compliance framework driving strategy, policy, and client-focused solutions.
Your Mission in a Nutshell: Build security strategy, negotiate with clients, drive policy and compliance, manage M365 security, run workshops, produce tender responses.
Elevate our cyber posture across all MSP services and build strong relationships with our marketing, customer experience and service partners to enhance our proposition.
In addition to this, as our Cyber Security Lead you will be responsible for:
* Serving as a trusted advisor to clients, running workshops and guiding warm-lead negotiations toward tailored security solutions.
* Developing and executing IT security strategies that align with evolving business objectives.
* Drafting, maintaining and implementing information security policies and Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs).
* Configuring and overseeing mobile security—MDM (MAM/BYOD)—to protect business continuity.
* Leading vulnerability assessments, penetration tests, firewall policy enforcement, and remediation efforts.
* Authoring compelling tender responses, clearly demonstrating technical capability and strategic value.
* Enhancing Microsoft 365 security leveraging Purview, Conditional Access, MFA to safeguard modern workplaces.
* Ensuring compliance with GDPR (DPA 2018), Cyber Essentials (Basic & Plus), and ISO 27001, supported by frameworks like NCSC and NIST.
* Operating around cybersecurity fundamentals: CIA (Confidentiality, Integrity, Availability), proactive threat prevention, and rapid incident response
About You
You’re naturally aligned with MSP-style work, deeply familiar with security frameworks, and thrive at the intersection of strategy and execution.
In addition to this, you must have experience in / exposure to:
* Background in MSP/MSSP environments.
* Proven history of facilitating workshops and supporting sales from warm leads through closure.
* Strong understanding of ITIL, CAB, and structured change management.
* Skilled in crafting and updating security policies, SOPs, and managing tender documentation.
* Hands-on expertise with MDM tools, penetration testing, and policy-based firewalls.
* Experience designing and delivering compliance aligned services across GDPR, Cyber Essentials, ISO 27001.
* Proficient in using Microsoft 365 security stack: Purview, Defender, Conditional Access, MFA.
* Fluent in cybersecurity frameworks (CIA, NCSC, NIST) and modern threat prevention approaches.
Why Curveball?
* Make a real impact: You’ll lead the cybersecurity footprint across clients and services.
* True partnership: We treat clients like collaborators, not just transactions.
* Innovation-driven: We anticipate threats and empower businesses to stay ahead.
* Growth opportunity: Join a 25-year-strong, community-rooted MSP that’s continuously expanding. Outstanding service culture: Backed by exceptional client satisfaction and real-world reviews.
If you feel you have the necessary skills and experience to be successful in this role click on “APPLY” today!
No agencies please.
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Information Technology
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IT Services and IT Consulting
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