Cyber Security Consultant

Can you identify cyber security risks and provide practical solutions?

Do you enjoy working with stakeholders to improve security outcomes and build resilience?

Have you gained experience in cyber security, risk management, security assurance or a related field?

If so, we’d love to hear from you!

As a Cyber Security Consultant, you will be part of the Cyber Security Services team, ensuring security risks are identified, assessed and managed across a range of business as usual (BAU) activities and supporting ongoing compliance.

Reporting to the Lead Cyber Security Consultant, the team is responsible for providing advice and guidance to IT workstreams delivering Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency’s (DVLA’s) web services, liaising with other teams in the IT department, providing security architecture input to technical designs and solutions and acting as a source of advice and guidance to the cyber security team and the wider agency.

Joining our department comes with many benefits, including:

• Employer pension contribution of 28.97% of your salary. Read more about Civil Service Pensions here
• 25 days annual leave, increasing by 1 day each year of service (up to a maximum of 30 days annual leave), plus 8 bank holidays and a privilege day for the King’s birthday.
• Flexible working options where we encourage a great work-life balance.

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Read more in the Benefits section below!

You will be an experienced cyber securityprofessional who can:

• Apply your knowledge of cyber and information security.
• Assess risks to existing and proposed systems and technical solutions, and then devise risk management plans to address such risks.
• To a large degree manage your own time and resources to deliver the required outcomes.
• Be actively engaged in the major change programme being implemented at DVLA, including playing a role in solution evaluation and technology selection.
• Develop and maintain good relationships with a wide range of stakeholders.
• Work as part of a team to deliver cyber security services.
• Develop/progress your own skills and career and actively coach and develop others.

Your responsibilities will include, but aren’t limited to:

• Monitor the efficiency and effectiveness of the Cyber Security processes across the organisation and make recommendations for continual improvement.
• Pro-actively pre-empt and manage risks and issues, providing solutions and escalating as required.
• Provide timely subject matter expert advice and consultancy in accordance with HMG security guidelines and DVLA policy on IT and information security issues to DVLA staff and to the service provider.
• Be responsible for the production of relevant security documentation for DVLA systems in line with HMG Information Assurance guidance.
• Undertake ad hoc risk assessments in line with the agreed risk assessment methodology within agreed timescales in order to provide senior manager with the appropriate information to make information risk management decisions.
• Produce Security Management Plans for DVLA projects to agree security relevant activities for the lifecycle of the project.
• Ensuring that all IT teams follow cyber security processes and elevate any repeated non-conformity.

Great line management is important to us as an organisation, and we will equip and support line managers to develop the skills they need. We aim to empower line managers to create teams where people can flourish and deliver excellent outcomes for the public.

For further information on the role, please read the attached role profile. Please note that the role profile is for information purposes only - whilst all elements are relevant to the role, they may not all be assessed during the recruitment process. This job advert will detail exactly what will be assessed during the recruitment process.

Cyber Security Consultant

Company: Government Recruitment Service

Salary: £39,163 - £39,163

Hours: Full-time

Location: Swansea

Job type: Permanent

Posting date: 10 Aug 2026

Closing date: 23 Aug 2026

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