Job Specifications
Security Risk Specialist
On-demand logistics & consumer technology
Hybrid - 2-3 days on site in London, 2-3 days work from home
Up to £650 p/d (6 month initial contract, inside IR35)
Are you excited by the challenge of making security risk management faster, clearer, and more actionable in a high-growth, global tech business?
Do you want a role where your work directly shapes decision-making at scale - and where smart use of automation and LLMs is genuinely encouraged?
About the Company
They’re a large, consumer-facing technology business operating an on-demand marketplace with real-time logistics at its core. The organisation has scaled rapidly across multiple international markets and continues to evolve its operating model as it grows. With a modern, product-led culture and a strong bias toward ownership, they invest in pragmatic security that enables the business to move quickly while meeting regulatory, customer, and stakeholder expectations.
About the role
This contract role sits within the Security Risk Management function and is very much hands-on. You’ll help shape, implement, and continuously refine a security risk management approach that is pragmatic, aligned to business priorities, and scalable across teams. The goal is to enable confident, well-informed decision-making in a fast-changing environment.
Your work will span a broad range of activities — from assessing risk in cloud-based systems, to strengthening metrics and reporting, to streamlining processes through automation. You’ll be comfortable working with both technical and non-technical stakeholders, keeping the focus on outcomes and delivery rather than theory.
What you’ll be doing:
Run and evolve a security risk management framework that supports business objectives, industry best practice, and regulatory requirements
Perform security risk assessments (including cloud environments) and recommend practical mitigation actions and risk treatment options
Review and improve existing risk management processes, identifying gaps, inefficiencies, and opportunities for optimisation — including automation and tooling
Work closely with cross-functional teams to embed risk management into projects, controls, and delivery workflows
Develop and refine security risk metrics and reporting to improve transparency, decision-making, and overall maturity
Contribute to the creation and enhancement of security awareness and risk management training materials
Use Large Language Models (LLMs) responsibly to speed up risk analysis, documentation, evidence review, control gap analysis, and stakeholder communications
About you
Strong hands-on experience delivering security risk management in a fast-moving organisation
Demonstrated ability to build, implement, and improve security risk processes and ways of working
Experience conducting security risk assessments in cloud environments
Comfortable working in agile, modern technology organisations and understanding how engineering teams build and operate systems
Confident defining meaningful security metrics and producing risk reporting that leaders can act on
Working knowledge of common security frameworks and standards such as PCI-DSS, NIST, ISO 27001, and SOC 2
Practical experience using LLMs as part of day-to-day security risk management activities
Nice to have:
A mix of consulting and in-house experience
Exposure to enterprise-grade integrated risk management / GRC platforms
Certifications such as CISM, CRISC, CISA, CISSP
For you
A chance to shape and mature security risk management in a business operating at significant scale and pace
High visibility work: your output supports real decisions across a complex, multi-team environment
Room to modernise how risk is managed - including meaningful, responsible use of automation and LLMs
Security Risk Specialist
On-demand logistics & consumer technology
Hybrid - 2-3 days on site in London, 2-3 days work from home
Up to £650 p/d (6 month initial contract, inside IR35)
About the Company
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