Cyber Security Consultant

Reference: 260-1_1774990195

The core cybersecurity function responsible for protecting systems, networks, and products across the business.

This team plays a critical role in:

  • Managing and responding to cybersecurity incidents (SOC environment)
  • Onboarding newly acquired companies into security standards
  • Driving consistency across security controls, monitoring, and compliance

The role is highly cross-functional, working with Security Engineering, Operations, and GRC teams, with regular stakeholder interaction and visibility.

Key Skills

  • Strong incident response & SOC experience (alert triage, investigations, escalation)
  • Hands-on experience with SIEM / log analysis tools (e.g. Splunk or similar)
  • Ability to set up and tune monitoring & alerting for threat detection
  • Experience implementing security controls, vulnerability management, and compliance monitoring
  • Strong stakeholder management - able to coordinate across engineering, ops, and business teams
  • Comfortable working in Agile/Scrum environments

Experience Required

  • 5+ years in cybersecurity engineering or security operations
  • Background in:
    • SOC / Incident Response
    • Threat detection or security monitoring
  • Experience onboarding systems, environments, or ideally companies into a central security model
  • Strong understanding of risk, compliance, and working with GRC teams
  • Nice to have:
    • M&A (Mergers & Acquisitions) security integration experience
    • Exposure to tools like Databricks or Power BI
    • Cloud security experience (AWS, Azure, GCP)

GCS is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.

COMPETITIVE SALARY

Penn Hills

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Added 31/03/2026
Reference: 260-1_1774990195

Cyber Security Consultant

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