Why it’s great to work for Turner & Townsend

At Turner & Townsend we’re passionate about making the difference. That means delivering better outcomes for our clients, helping our people to realize their potential, and doing our part to create a prosperous society.

Every day we help our major global clients deliver ambitious and highly technical projects, in over 130 countries worldwide.

Our team is dynamic, innovative and client-focused. Our clients value our proactive approach, depth of expertise, integrity and the quality we deliver.  As a result our people get to work on some of the most exciting projects in the world.

We are looking to recruit an Information Security Consultant to join our existing Information Security team.

Working with the Information Security team to provide advice and guidance on IT security and further develop IT policies and processes across a multi-region infrastructure consisting of 8300+ staff and 100+ sites. As a member of the IT Security team, you will review all aspects of the IT environment and its components. This role shall be responsible for supporting and maintaining enterprise-wide solutions. The successful candidate will be required to proactively improve and provide advice and guidance on information security matters. This is an excellent opportunity for candidates who have a strong understanding of IT infrastructure and/or information security within a fast-paced environment.

Key Duties and Responsibilities

• Assist with security incident management and response activities
• General day-to-day support on managing and responding to security alerts from systems and end users
• Perform daily, weekly, and monthly security checks, reconciliation and compliance checks and investigate exceptions
• Completing client security requirement questionnaires and support the bidding process
• Identify and raise awareness of security risks
• Develop and enhance security policies, processes, procedures, and technical controls to strengthen Turner & Townsend’s security capabilities and resilience to cyber threats
• Take a proactive role in identifying security risks, mitigations, and opportunities to strengthen Turner & Townsend’s resilience to cyber-attacks and security incidents
• Participate in the design and implementation of systems and applications
• Develop user and technical training guides
• Maintain and manage the IT Risk register
• Test DR plans and capabilities to ensure they work as designed, identifying gaps and lessons learnt and work with the business to drive continual development and enhancement

Technical Requirements

• Two years hands-on experience of security and/or infrastructure within an enterprise environment
• Exposure to enterprise information security standards including Cyber Essentials, ISO 27001, 27002 etc. Data Protection Act and the General Data Protection Regulation
• Microsoft O365 Security solutions; Networking; Security operations; Vulnerability Management; Security Auditing
• Good understanding of security testing principles, including experience of vulnerability scanning, identifying, resolving, and reporting risks
• Experience of formal document creation, such as the creation of reports or procedures

Detailed knowledge of:

• Microsoft O365 environment
• Threat Intelligence analysis and best practice
• Security Incident Response processes, procedures, and best practices
• Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity principles
• Event and log analysis

Core Behavioural Skills:

• Confident individual with the good interpersonal skills, able to deal with people at all levels and communicate to users in a clear, non-technical language
• Team-player
• Analytically minded, able to break down and understand information
• Must be comfortable with working in a fast-moving, dynamic environment
• Strongly customer-focused, used to providing support to demanding users
• Good organisational skills, used to managing and prioritising own workload
• Ability to report on progress, timescales, outstanding and completed activities

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