Cyber Security Assurance lead - Secure by Design for Defence

Cybersecurity Assurance Manager - Secure by Design UK Defence Sector Guildford Hybrid Must be eligible to attain National Security Vetting at SC.DV is desirable, which would require 10 years unbroken residency in the UK. We''re recruiting on behalf of a leading organisation for a Security Assurance Manager to own cybersecurity and information assurance across their products, programmes and spacecraft lifecycle. This is a genuinely broad, senior assurance role - spanning certification (ISO 27001, CE+, DCC), ITHCs, Secure by Design reviews, supplier security, and space licensing assurance. You''ll sit across Change Advisory Boards, incident response, and executive-level reporting. This is the one thing that matters most for this role: You need to have personally delivered Secure by Design assurance within a Defence programme. Not just an understanding of the framework - hands-on ownership: engaging with system and design owners, running gap analysis against security controls, and taking something through to a real outcome such as Authority to Operate or formal accreditation. If that''s not something you''ve genuinely done, please don''t apply - the client has been explicit that there isn''t time to build this knowledge up from scratch. What you''ll need: Hands-on Secure by Design delivery experience in a Defence programme - as a Delivery Team Security Lead, Delivery Team Security Engineer, or Security Assurance Coordinator Hold, or have held, CISM, CISA, BCS CISMP, ..... full job details .....