Senior Information Risk Consultant-Azure/Cybersecurity

Posted 16 July 2025
SalaryNegotiable
Location
Job type Contract
DisciplineIT
ReferenceBBBH7860_1752682062

Job description

Job Title: Senior Information Risk Consultant (Azure/Cybersecurity)
Location: Ireland/Remote
Job Type: Contract-US Shift

Client Overview:
Our client is a major financial agency of the United Nations, and an international financial institution funded by 191 member countries, with headquarters in Washington, D.C

Qualifications:

These are the points that the candidate must have to be successful in this position and to move forward to an interview.

  • Years of experience overall in IT 7 to 10 years.
  • Azure cloud services (including but not limited to capabilities for IAM, Network Security, Policy Management, Key Management, etc.)
  • IT Products, platforms, and services (cloud and non-cloud)
  • Solutions with complex hybrid architectures
  • Identity and Access Management Governance

Technical Skills:

  1. Familiarity with a broad range of security technologies supplemented by in-depth knowledge in specific areas of relevance.
  2. Ability to quickly grasp how new technologies work and how they might be applied to achieve business goals.
  3. Analytical skills that enable synthesis of inputs from many sources and allow for strategic thinking and tactical implementation.
  4. Interpersonal skills that create openness and trust among colleagues
  5. Facilitation and conflict management skills that enable effective working relationships.
  6. Spoken and written communications that are compelling, convincing, and reassuring, and skills to articulate complex technical ideas to non-technical stakeholders.
  7. Pragmatic security expert with an inherent ability to balance security demands with business reality.
  8. Excellent relationship management skills
  9. Ability to think laterally and to have input to / propose detailed, complex solutions to technical issues.

Certifications (minimum below plus at least 2 "preferred"):

  1. CISSP or CISM (minimum required)
  2. CCSP (preferred)
  3. Microsoft Certified: Cybersecurity Architect Expert (preferred)
  4. Microsoft Certified: Azure Security Engineer Associate (At a minimum)
  5. Other Microsoft cloud security related certifications at the Expert level (preferred)
  6. GIAC certifications (preferred)
  7. Offensive security related certifications (preferred)

Responsibilities:

  1. Senior individual contributor for information security risk management projects. Sample projects/programs could include but are not limited to:
  • Control design and assessment for high-demand technical areas such as ERP, IT Service Management, Identity and Access Management, IT Resiliency, Cloud, etc.
  • Compliance framework mapping and implementation,
  • Risk remediation management,
  • Information Security risk reporting and monitoring
  • Creation of roadmaps to mature or advance Information Security Strategies/Programs/Controls
  • Design and enablement of cyber controls functions and processes
  • Direct experience with GRC/Cybersecurity solutions, tools, and technologies, specifically ServiceNow and Archer
  • Projects or roles requiring coordination across lines of defense working with technical, business, compliance, risk, and audit teams to deliver solutions.
  1. Delivery of Information Security Risk assessments including consulting on threat modelling, appropriate tiering of N tier products/platforms, design of infrastructure security controls to protect application components.
  2. Consult and review the implementation of authentication (SSO, L DAP, AD), authorization (fine grained and coarse grained), and cryptography (PKI, SSL, Kerberos, crypto algorithms) mechanisms within applications.
  3. Consult and deliver standards and guidelines on the hardening of both cloud and non-cloud application and infrastructure components, tools, and techniques to ensure the security of application and infrastructure components such as LINUX/Windows servers, Web servers (IIS, Apache, tomcat), app servers, Databases (Oracle and MS SQL), endpoints (MAC, Windows, Apple IOS, etc.), and Web Application Firewalls.
  4. Collaborate with the security penetration testing team and review, apply appropriate risk levels to the output of Application and Infrastructure Security assessments.
  5. Support governance activities for Identity and Access Management.
  6. Defining process and procedures for using External security service providers including scoping, management of services, remediation tracking, and exception management.
  7. Effectively communicates requirements and trains staff and managers in IT divisions to identify and manage risks throughout the project lifecycle.
  8. Maintain impartiality around IT systems to produce unbiased reports on information security risk.
  9. Conducts quality assurance reviews of security requirements for the implementation of identified solutions.
  10. Manages the engagement process of external risk assessment providers and acts as a liaison with internal IT project teams and business units.
  11. As an advocate of information security, works closely and proactively with IT project team leaders, service providers, and business units to provide security-related technical solutions. Identifies opportunities to improve business practices or IT security-related processes.
  12. Analyzes, recommends, and implements process improvements within the context of information security.
  13. Works closely with IT project teams to develop implementation plans for new security-related products and services.

If you are interested in this role or would like to discuss further, please call Nidhi on +353 1 645 5244 or email [email protected].

Candidate must have valid visa to work in Ireland (Stamp 1G/Stamp 4/EU Passport)