Junior Security Consultant

**About Advantio**
Established in 2009, Advantio maintains an extensive team of consultants and security testing experts to provide digital security and assurance to its customers. Originally established as a payment compliance market leader, Advantio has grown from an established and leading payment security and compliance organisation in Europe to develop its comprehensive Cyber Security and Managed Security Services expertise - offering consultancy, products, and services to support organisations to first understand or their own cyber security related business risks and then by providing suitable and affordable solutions to manage those risks effectively and to remediate against threats proportionately. Advantio primarily serves the FinTech and Payment Card industries and is recognised by VISA as one of Europe’s top Qualified Security Assessor (QSA) providers.

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Role Mission: *
To work actively with the wider consultancy team to deliver the final engagement and assisting with both on-site (security gap analysis, formal security assessment of compliance and related evidence gathering) and off-site activities (evidence analysis, report writing, preparing meeting minutes).

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Key Responsibilities: *
Under supervision of Managing Consultant, QSA Mentor and a Senior Consultant, learn how to and eventually be responsible for:
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Preparation: *
- Analysis and assessment of customer’s environment against requirements of Information Security standards and frameworks.
- Preparation, organization, collection and maintenance of the information needed to start an engagement.

**Engagement**:

- Attending meetings, onsite and offsite assessments, supervised by the Managing Consultant, QSA Mentor or Senior Consultant, taking notes, understanding client expectations, business processes and the technological environment.
- Analysis of the gathered evidence, such as internal policies and procedures, configuration extracts, script outputs, in collaboration with senior consultants.
- Supporting the other consultants’ findings of the best technological, software and procedural solutions, in order to provide consultancy and remediation activities to the customer.
- Learning along with Managing Consultant, Mentor QSA or Senior Consultant how to:

- Provide professional and reliable IT security advice, acquiring all the skills necessary for this purpose.
- International standards (PCI DSS, GDPR, ISO 27001, PSD2 and others).

**Reporting**:

- Writing draft versions of reports resulting from the engagements including but not limited to: gap analysis, assessment, feasibility study, meeting minutes.
- Providing regular status reports to QSA Mentor, or Senior Consultant.

**Knowledge and Skills**:

- Familiarity with Linux, Microsoft and cloud environments.
- Basic knowledge of computer networks (Firewall, Switch, router, ISO/OSI model, etc.).
- Basic knowledge of database administration and/or software development processes is a benefit.
- Ability to assess IT environments against various requirements of security framework is a benefit.
- Fluent English.
- Degree in computer engineering or computer science is a benefit.

**Competencies**:

- Communication (Clearness, Listening)
- Planning and Organization (Time management, scheduling and control)
- Problem solving (Analysis, Problem setting, Helicopter view)
- Results Orientation (Delivery Solutions, Work under pressure)

**Values**
- _Harmony, always strive to create harmony_
- _Openness, always be open_
- _Social Responsibility, be socially responsible_
- _Timeless, Whatever you build make it timeless_
- _Accommodating, Make our customers feel at Home_
- _Learning, Be a Learn it all_
- _Delivering Results_