Cybersecurity Specialist

Mott MacDonald

Location/s: Glasgow, Birmingham, Bristol, Cambridge, Liverpool, Manchester, Southampton, United Kingdom
Recruiter contact: Laura Kennedy

We’re a global engineering, management, and development consultancy. Our purpose is to improve society by considering social outcomes in everything we do, relentlessly focusing on excellence and digital innovation, transforming our clients’ businesses, our communities and employee opportunities. 

A fundamental part of this is respecting each person’s differences and striving to meet their needs. 

We are proud to be a one of Glassdoor’s top employers to work for in the UK, as well as being recognised as a Top Inclusive Company in the UK.

Our values: Progress, Respect, Integrity, Drive, Excellence.

We are Transport Mobility Solutions (TMS). Transport planners and modellers, highway design and asset specialists and technologists. We solve our clients' future transport problems for the benefit of their customers and society.

Our vision is to be recognised by the market and our colleagues at Mott MacDonald, as renowned pioneers in our industry. To lead the way, as a connected centre of technical excellence, industry influence and innovation.

Our goals are:

• Thriving culture - Inspire and encourage our people through leadership and development, living and breathing the ‘TMS Way’.
• Delivering excellence - Known as a diverse network where people, energy and ideas come together to deliver excellence.
• Partnering with our clients - Trusted by our clients to understand and deliver on their goals through commercial confidence and collaboration.

Our Digital Technology & Systems team (DTS) is part of TMS, focused on delivering software, services, and digital solutions for our clients in the highways market and beyond.  We work with central, regional and local government organisations, in addition to arm’s length transportation asset owners and private sector organisations. We help them ensure transportation is safe, efficient, accessible and sustainable.  We specialise in a variety of disciplines across the Intelligent Transportation Sector, including software development, data engineering, operational technology and connected and autonomous mobility.  We are an ambitious team of technologist on a path to growth – come and join us!

With the growth in demand for Cybersecurity across the business and our client base, we are expanding our existing capabilities with a new Cybersecurity Specialist. You will be based out of either our Glasgow, Birmingham, Bristol, Cambridge, Liverpool, Manchester or Southampton offices.

As a Cybersecurity Specialist you will work as part of our teams assessing and advising on security measures, identifying vulnerabilities and design improvements and recommendations on client projects.This role involves working closely with clients to develop and implement effective security strategies, cybersecurity due diligence, supply chain assessment and ensuring compliance with industry standards. This may include project work, and benefit from past experience, in one or more of:

• GRC (Governance, risk and compliance)
• Technical areas e.g. Security Architecture, IACS
• Operational area: SOC, Incident Response, Forensics.

Some aspects of this job may require occasional work outside normal office hours or on UK clients' sites, so flexibility is important.

Role responsibilities

• Develop, review and implement cybersecurity policies, protocols and procedures, such as IEC 62443 or ISO27001, including working in IACS domains.
• Provide expert advice on cybersecurity measures and best practices across OT and IT projects.
• Understand client requirements and analyse specifications.
• Conduct reviews and audits to identify vulnerabilities in existing systems or proposed designs.
• Collaborate with company and client IT teams to design and implement security solutions.
• Monitor, consult and advise on security incidents and breaches.
• Stay updated on the latest security trends, threats and technologies.
• Prepare inputs to reports, bid proposals and documentation on cybersecurity assessments and recommendations.
• Train and educate staff on security standards, awareness and protocols.

Candidate Specification
As a Cybersecurity Specialist you will be able to work autonomously at times, sometimes within cross-domain engineering teams, but always with close links to a technology team and be supported by management and technical colleagues from across Technology & Systems to ensure tasks are completed and delivered to a high standard within our established processes and procedures. With a constantly evolving portfolio of diverse and unique projects, this role will provide the successful candidate the opportunity to work across multiple teams for a variety of clients.

You will work within a structured project environment which promotes the delivery of quality services to our clients and provides a framework for your continued growth. You will have considerable autonomy but also the opportunity to be mentored by senior technical team members, who will support you in meeting challenging goals and industry training. The role will include working directly with internal and external clients, remotely and occasionally on-site, and will provide the opportunity to grow the workstream and contribute innovation into our solutions.

Essential

• Bachelor’s degree in Cybersecurity, Computer Science or a closely related field.
• Proven experience as a Cybersecurity Specialist for public or private sector organisation or similar role.
• In-depth knowledge of security frameworks and regulations such as ISO 27001, NIST CSF, CE+, IEC62443, NIS, NIS2, Cloud Security Principles and GDPR.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Good communication and interpersonal skills.

Desirable

• Experience with security tools and technologies such as firewalls, IDS/IPS, and SIEM.
• Experience working with Operational Technology (OT)
• Professional registrations or certifications such as CiiSEC, CISSP, GICSP, or related would be advantageous.

UK Immigration

Mott MacDonald Ltd. are not currently offering sponsorship to candidates under the Skilled Worker visa route in the UK. This decision is as a consequence of the changes made to the Skilled Worker route by the UK Government in April 2024. We continue to welcome applications from candidates who are eligible for alternative immigration routes in the UK, that do not require sponsorship as a Skilled Worker now or in future.

Equality, diversity, and inclusion 

We put equality, diversity, and inclusion at the heart of our business, seeking to promote fair employment procedures and practices to ensure equal opportunities for all. We encourage individual expression in our workplace and are committed to creating an inclusive environment where everyone feels they can contribute.

Accessibility

We want you to perform your best at every stage in the recruitment process. If you are disabled or need any support to enable you to apply or attend an interview, please contact us at reasonable.adjustments@mottmac.com and we will talk to you about how we can support you.

Agile working 

Happy to talk Flexible Working and how we can support your responsibilities beyond the workplace.

We offer some fantastic benefits including:

Health and wellbeing

• Private medical insurance for all UK colleagues.
• Health cash plan to support you with every day health costs and treatments.
• Access to Peppy, providing free support from menopause experts for all UK colleagues.
• A variety of wellbeing support is available through our comprehensive wellbeing program, including access for you and your family.
• Ability to flex your salary to opt into a wide range of health benefits, many of which can be extended to your family too.

Financial wellbeing

• We match employee pension contributions between 4.5% and 7%.
• Life assurance equal up to 4 x your basic salary, with an option to increase the level of cover to 6 x your salary.
• Our income protection scheme provides a financial benefit, as well as absence and return to work support due to long-term illness or injury.
• Flexible benefits, including increased life assurance cover, critical illness insurance, payroll saving and will writing.
• As an independently owned business we share the financial success of the business with all our colleagues in various ways including annual bonus schemes.

Lifestyle

• A minimum of 33-35 days holiday each year, inclusive of public holidays and dependent on level, with the ability to buy or sell leave through our flexible benefits programme.
• Holiday entitlement increased to a minimum of 35 days after 5 years’ service.
• Variety of employee saving schemes and discounts from high-street retailers.

 Enhanced family and carers leave

• Enhanced family leave policies, including 26 weeks paid maternity and adoption leave, and two weeks paid paternity/partner leave.
• Our shared parental leave matches maternity leave meaning we pay up to 24 weeks at full pay.
• Up to five additional days leave are provided for those with significant caring responsibilities, two of which are paid.

 Learning and development

• Primary annual professional institution subscription.
• A broad range of opportunities to enhance both technical and soft skills through mentoring, formal training, and self-development options.

Networks, communities, and social outcomes

• Join a wide range of groups including our Advanced Employee Networks which support our LGBTQ+, gender, race and ethnicity, disability, and parents/carers communities.
• Make a difference within our communities through our social outcomes.

Apply now, or for more information about our application process, click here.