Senior Cyber Consultant - UK Remote - to £105k + Benefits
Are you a confident, capable Senior Cyber Consultant, with experience in leading direction and strategy, helping immature organisations create workable, actionable roadmaps for their Cyber and Infosec Strategy?
We're hiring a Strategtic GRC/Risk/Cyber Consultant with experience ideally in LONGER projects to join a fast-growing, high-calibre UK-based security consultancy. This is a remote-first role, open to experienced professionals based in the UK. You'll work closely with a broad range of clients from SME and retail-sector clients to large Utilities / Multinationals, acting as a trusted advisor across longer-term engagements - shaping and benchmarking security strategy and progress, influencing stakeholders, and driving real change.
The role needs an experienced client-facing, engaging and dynamic personality to be able to ask tough questions, guide clients through troubled waters, and lead them to their ultimate goals.
The Role:
- Lead and deliver strategic multi-disciplined engagements, operating at both a strategic and tactical level.
- Build strong commercial relationships with clients, challenge assumptions diplomatically, and influence senior stakeholders.
- Provide guidance in across security frameworks and standards such as ISO27001, NIST CSF, PCI-DSS, Cyber Essentials, SOC 2 (or others/more/similar) where appropriate.
- Have a strong understanding of technical services, challenges, architecture and onoarding of those to a client.
- Plan and drive long, multi-year programmes of work to remediate, achieve objectives, enable business growth.
- Understand buyer behaviour and how organisations really work - beyond checklists and assumptions.
What You'll Bring:
- Strong 3rd Party / Professional Services consulting experience, ideally in less framework-heavy environments, where creativity and dynamism get the job done.
- Experience navigating delivering LONGER V-Ciso style engagements, GRC, risk frameworks, and regulatory compliance (Maybe you've been internal, or a CISO at some stage?)
- A background in Cyber, Cloud or Networking is useful - even if not current/up to date.
- Certifications such as CISSP, CISM, ISO 27001 Lead Implementer, PCI etc. are great - but your professionalism and gravitas to drive meaningful change as a trusted advisor matter most.
You:
- A natural communicator, listener and relationship builder - confident, but never arrogant
- Able to simplify complexity and bring clarity to clients
- Able to respectfully challenge and shape beliefs, educate, share, define and plan
- Someone who thrives on collaboration and delivering tangible impact
- UK-based and eligible to work in the UK without sponsorship
Why Join?
- Salary up to £105,000 + benefits package
- A people-first consultancy with a great manager and team
- Long-term client partnerships, not just short one-off projects, where you never see the outcome.
- Autonomy, respect, and a chance to shape client outcomes at a strategic level
Sound like you? Apply now - or connect with us on LinkedIn (UK candidates only please). Let's have a chat! Email security@circlerecruitment.com and you can find me on LI at Tariq Dirania
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