Job Purpose

Orange Cyberdefense is the expert cyber security business unit of the Orange Group, providing consulting, solutions and services to organisations around the globe. As Europe’s go-to security provider, we strive to protect freedom and build a safer digital society. We are looking for an Advisory Services Consultant to join our rapidly growing team in Pretoria, South Africa.

The principal role of Advisory Services is to create and maintain strategic partnerships with our customers, through delivering first-class security consulting services, working closely and strategically with the customers, and ensuring that we understand and support their business and core security requirements.

Advisory Services spend part of their time accompanying members of our sales teams to customer meetings, gathering requirements and presenting and discussing solutions from our advisory, assessment and services portfolio.

Key Responsibilities

Key responsibilities as an Advisory Services Consultant:

• Establish and maintain strategic partnerships with our customers, acting as a trusted security advisor to our customers’ security leadership.
• Help to develop and implement our overall advisory services strategy for Orange Cyberdefense ZA, understanding the company objectives and helping us to align with customer strategy and requirements.
• Evaluation of new technologies, services and solutions in the marketplace, ensuring a high level of market awareness in our key customer accounts, make recommendations for the future and devise plans for adoption of new technologies in line with stated customer strategy.
• Design, deliver and manage security advisory services, security assessments, reviews, strategic consulting, and ongoing security advisory.
• Guide and work with the Advisory and sales team to compose professional response to tenders and other formal proposal documentation of the highest quality.
• Work closely with a project team of highly skilled technical security analysts to deliver customer solutions as designed and act as a customer advocate.
• Build and maintain relationships with vendors and industry partners at an appropriate peer level including gaining / retaining relevant accreditation and business networking opportunities and influencing the direction of key partner strategy

Knowledge, Skills & Experience

• Previous experience in information security consulting, advisory and security management roles.
• Experience managing and delivering security training and awareness programs and courses.
• You must have a very strong security background, with an excellent understanding of IT security.
• Strong hands-on security Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) experience, working knowledge including auditing, assessment, implementation and consulting of multiple industry accepted security standards and frameworks.
• Possess at least one of the following: CISSP, CISM, CISA, ISO 27001 LA/LI, PCI DSS QSA.
• You must have excellent communication, interpersonal and presentation skills.
• You can demonstrate excellent vendor and marketplace knowledge and hold relevant accreditations and contacts.
• You will ideally have previous experience in CISO/security manager/officer roles and is highly desirable.
• You will ideally have experience of public cloud infrastructure design and migration in AWS and MS Azure is highly desirable.

Personal Specification

• Urgent desire to learn with a passion for technology
• Action oriented
• Capacity to concentrate for long periods of time
• Willingness to work late when required; keep in mind a day is defined fairly between our expectations and your requirements. We recognise people are effective during different periods.
• Willingness to travel when required, possibly abroad
• Analytical and critical thinker
• Good written English skills

• Problem-solving skills

• Self-motivation

• Efficient

• Detail-oriented

• The ability to prioritize

• Team player

• Analytical

• Inquisitive

• Evil bit (hacker way of looking at complex problems and solving them creatively)

• Active listening

• Trustworthy

• Critical thinking

• Persistence

• Self-control

• Attention to detail