Principal Identity Consultant

Location: UK - London, UK - Birmingham, UK - Cardiff, UK - Edinburgh, UK - Hatfield, UK - Manchester, UK - Milton Keynes, UK - Nottingham, UK - Reading | Job-ID: 219709 | Contract type: Standard | Business Unit: IT Consulting

Life on the team

Competitive + Benefits + Car (UK Wide)

Join Computacenter’s dynamic and rapidly growing Consultancy Practice, where you’ll work with enterprise customers to design and deliver secure, modern technology solutions.

As a Security Consultant, you’ll play a key role in helping organisations strengthen their identity and security capabilities across both cloud and on-premises environments. You’ll work alongside experienced consultants and technical specialists, taking part in challenging customer engagements and helping shape solutions across Identity Security, Privileged Identity, Identity Governance, SSO, MFA, SASE/SSE and security detection.

This is an opportunity to combine technical expertise with consultancy skills, acting as a trusted advisor to customers while helping Computacenter continue to develop its security consultancy capabilities.

What you’ll do

• Lead or contribute to enterprise-level security projects, from initial requirements and design through to implementation and optimisation.
• Act as a Subject Matter Expert for Identity Security, representing Computacenter confidently with customer stakeholders.
• Deliver customer-facing consultancy engagements, including security workshops, reviews, assessments and gap analysis.
• Design and implement secure architectures across on-premises and cloud environments.
• Work across Identity Security disciplines including Identity and Access Management, Privileged Identity, Identity Governance, SSO and MFA.
• Contribute to security solutions spanning SASE/SSE and security detection technologies.
• Develop high-quality technical documentation, designs and outcome-based deliverables.
• Build trusted relationships with enterprise customers and key stakeholders.
• Evaluate current and emerging security technologies and identify opportunities to enhance customer solutions.
• Support the continuous development of Computacenter’s security consultancy capability, sharing knowledge, best practice and lessons learned.
• Stay up to date with evolving security threats, technologies, standards and regulatory requirements.

What you’ll need

• Strong professional background in IT security, with proven experience delivering enterprise security solutions.
• Experience designing and implementing enterprise-wide security architectures and deployments across cloud and on-premises environments.
• Strong knowledge of Identity Security, including Identity and Access Management, Identity Governance, Privileged Identity, SSO and MFA.
• Experience delivering advisory-style consultancy, including customer workshops, security reviews and gap analysis.
• Excellent communication, presentation and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to explain complex security concepts clearly.
• Experience working directly with enterprise customers and confidently representing a consultancy organisation.
• Relevant vendor security qualifications or accreditations.
• Good understanding of the regulatory and compliance landscape affecting information and identity security.
• Ability to work independently as an engagement lead or collaboratively as part of a wider consultancy team.
• SC Clearance would be desirable.

Experience across two or more of the following technologies or vendors would be highly desirable

• IDAM & IGA: SailPoint, Saviynt
• SASE/SSE: Zscaler, Palo Alto, Cisco
• Security: CrowdStrike, Microsoft
• Cloud: AWS, Azure
• Security Analytics & XDR: Cisco Splunk, Cisco XDR
• Threat Detection: Darktrace

Help organisations build stronger, smarter security foundations. Bring your Identity Security expertise to Computacenter and make an impact across enterprise technology transformation.

About us

Computacenter is a leading independent provider of IT infrastructure services, with about 21,000 employees worldwide. We work at the heart of digitisation, advising organisations on IT strategy, implementing the most appropriate technology and managing our customers’ infrastructures.

We offer a friendly, open working environment without too much fuss about hierarchy. We are looking for professionals with diverse competencies, personalities and strengths who want to live our shared value of teamwork and performance.

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