Job Description:
Security Consultant - Assurance
Primary location: Salford (M50 3SP), Staines (TW18 3DZ), London (EC2R 7HJ), Leeds (LS5 3BF)
Flexible / Hybrid working options.
Permanent
Salary from: £70k DOE and location + 10% Bonus+ fantastic benefits
Full time 37.5 hours
At Bupa, we’re passionate about technology. With colleagues, customers, patients and residents in mind you’ll have the opportunity to work on innovative projects and make a real impact on their lives.
Right from the start you’ll become part of our digital & data strategy, joining us on our journey and developing yourself along the way.
In this role you will provide security assurance and architectural review activities across change initiatives, operational platforms and transformational programs, including major technology migrations and system upgrades. This position is crucial in ensuring that appropriate technical and procedural controls are implemented effectively, identifying security issues and gaps that could result in organisational risks and ensuring security is embedded and supported throughout the delivery lifecycle.
How you’ll help us make health happen:
1. Requirements Definition: Establishing and documenting security requirements for projects and initiatives
2. Design Assurance: Conducting thorough reviews of designs, architectures and implementation plans to ensure security controls are appropriately integrate
3. Risk Identification and Mitigation: Identifying security issues, gaps and vulnerabilities, and recommending appropriate mitigations and risk treatments
4. Threat Modelling and Assessment: Contributing to threat modelling exercises, risk assessments and control validation activities
5. Lifecycle Integration: Ensuring security requirements and controls are incorporated throughout the delivery lifecycle
6. Standards Development: Supporting the development and maintenance of security standards, patterns, and best practices
7. Project Collaboration: Actively engaging with project teams as an embedded security resource to ensure security considerations are integrated from inception
Key Skills / Qualifications needed for this role:
8. Strong foundational knowledge of information and cyber security principles and practices
9. Demonstrated understanding of risk management methodologies, threat modelling, and secure design principles
10. Experience with cloud security concepts and controls (Azure and/or GCP preferred)
11. Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to convey complex security concepts to diverse audiences
12. Strong stakeholder engagement and relationship management capabilities
13. Awareness of relevant security standards and frameworks (such as NIST CSF, ISO 27001, CIS Controls, OWASP)
14. Experience working within Agile and traditional project delivery methodologies
15. Deep expertise in 1-2 specialised security domains (e.g., cloud security, network security, application security, identity and access management, data protection, infrastructure security)
16. Professional security certifications (such as CISSP, cloud specific security certifications)
17. Experience with security testing methodologies and tools
Benefits
Our benefits are designed to make health happen for our people. Viva is our global wellbeing programme and includes all aspects of our health – from mental and physical, to financial, social and environmental wellbeing. We support flexible working and have a range of family friendly benefits.
Joining Bupa in this role you will receive the following benefits and more:
• 25 days holiday, increasing through length of service, with option to buy or sell
• Bupa health insurance as a benefit in kind
• An enhanced pension plan and life insurance
• Onsite gyms or local discounts where no onsite gym available
• Various other benefits and online discounts
Why Bupa?
We’re a health insurer and provider. With no shareholders, our customers are our focus. Our people are all driven by the same purpose – helping people live longer, healthier, happier lives and making a better world. We make health happen by being brave, caring and responsible in everything we do.