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Recruitment Advisor at Crown Commercial Service Position: Lead Cyber Security Analyst
Band: 5
Location: Liverpool/Newport/Norwich/Birmingham
Term: Permanent
CCS: What We Do
We are the largest public procurement organisation in the UK. We help thousands of public and third sector buyers in the UK with over £20 billion being spent through our agreements each year.
There has never been a better time to join CCS, as we aim to make public sector procurement as simple as possible through the digitisation of our workflows, we embrace the latest technology and invest in our people offering excellent career development opportunities.
If you can see yourself contributing to this journey, supporting the public and joining our diverse team of over 800 colleagues, the next chapter of your career may be with our #CCSFamily.
Job Description
Would you like to be a part of a digital transformation journey and be part of a growing team that is constantly evolving? Do you want to be involved in work that has a meaningful purpose? If yes, then this could be the role for you!
CCS is on an exciting digital transformation journey. We are reviewing our entire business and delivering new and improved digital technologies to enhance the services we provide, the ways we work, and how we interact with our customers, suppliers and other stakeholders. We’re implementing a new cyber security function as part of Agile digital delivery within our growing team, and the pace and scale of change within the Directorate is unprecedented .
Job Summary
In this critical role, establishing and leading our newly formed cyber security team, you will be responsible for understanding, detecting and responding to cyber threats and vulnerabilities affecting the Services we operate, as well as leading on regular IT Health Check’s, resolving any issues identified that need addressing, and working with Operations and Development teams to prevent these issues in the future.
This role reports to the Head of Service and Infrastructure, and is responsible for setting standards, developing policies and processes and operating and continually improving the team’s monitoring and response capabilities.
Directorate Overview
Digital and Data Services (DDS) supports our digital and technology design, implementation and service delivery. They maintain our digital systems and work with other teams to deliver the business plan with a digital mindset.
Team Summary
The post sits within the Digital Services (DDS) Service Management team, responsible for the ongoing development, delivery and support of digital services to internal and external users. Reporting to the Head of Service and Infrastructure, you will head up our new cyber security team, working alongside cross-functional product teams, leading in the design, development and enablement of automated monitoring processes, advising on the latest SIEM (Security Information and Event Management) and network analysis tools, techniques and procedures to detect malicious activity, while communicating directly with leadership on the progress and status of cyber threat monitoring and response.
Key Responsibilities
Leading on the wider implementation of a monitoring strategy, ensuring roadmaps are achieved as expected, ensuring requirements, policies and standards to govern all activities and outputs are met
Lead monitoring, triaging, and investigation of security alerts on Azure and AWS platforms to identify security incidents
Review high-priority or high-complexity analysis of security event data to manage security incident response, making key decisions on reporting or escalations for monitoring
Lead the cyber security team in the design, development and enablement of automated monitoring processes, advising on the latest SIEM (Security Information and Event Management) and network analysis tools, techniques and procedures to detect malicious activity, while communicating directly with leadership on the progress and status of monitoring
coordinate the triage and remediation of identified threats using a risk-based approach, working closely with service teams and developers to ensure that appropriate mitigation measures are implemented
work closely with other teams within the Directorate and Information Security to proactively reduce cyber security threats and vulnerabilities
produce regular reporting which delivers insights on security monitoring activities and the impact on cyber security risk
establish a detailed understanding of our data security and architectures enabling the delivery of consistent security advice
define requirements for improving and expanding our security tooling
develop and update internal plans, processes, and knowledge base articles
support wider Cyber Defence activities
line manage, act as an escalation point for, and provide coaching and mentoring to Security analysts
Essential Criteria (To be assessed at application):
A track record in cyber security leadership, strategy development and planning in large and complex organisations, with demonstrable technical security knowledge of modern security concepts, principles and technologies for Azure, AWS, and SaaS.
Expert knowledge of typical threats and attack vectors with appropriate monitoring and remediation strategies.
experience using a variety of sources of information to identify, analyse and report on relevant threats and vulnerabilities.
Developed problem solving skills including addressing complex technical security and process challenges that ensure delivery at pace to an appropriate risk appetite.
Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to effectively communicate complex security concepts to non-technical stakeholders, influence stakeholders and create easy to consume articles such as blogs, policies and presentations.
Experience of day-to-day management of multi-disciplinary teams of cyber security professionals.
Experience deploying, configuring and using vulnerability assessment (such as Tenable and the NCSC’s Active Cyber Defence Toolkit) and Attack Surface Management tools
Experience using cloud provider monitoring tools such as AWS CloudWatch, CloudTrail and GuardDuty for threat monitoring, alerting and response
In the event of a strong pool of candidates, desirable will be used as a second sift
Success profiles (To be assessed at interview):
Behaviours:
Delivering at Pace
Managing a Quality Service
Making Effective Decisions
Changing and Improving
Working Together
Technical:
understanding of security event analysis and remediation specific to AWS Cloud environments and workloads.
CCS is a flexible business with a smarter working model where our colleagues benefit from a mix of home and office working. Successful candidates are expected to work from one of the office locations listed. Our current office attendance approach requires a minimum of 26 days per quarter (approx 2 days per week, which may be subject to change) in CCS office locations or off site meetings with suppliers, customers, partners, networking / industry events. This is pro rata for those who work part time. Our smarter working principles mean that our people have the advantage of both office and offsite based collaboration and learning, as well as working from home. This way of working allows us to honour our commitment to being a responsible business, offer flexibility and better work life balance as well as ensuring we deliver our business with confidence and in accordance with our CCS values.
In return for your skills we offer:
A discretionary non-contractual performance related bonus
Working remotely in addition to working in advertised office location
Minimum 25 days annual leave to a maximum service related 30 days excluding bank holidays
At CCS, we actively support, promote and celebrate our differences for the benefit of our employees, suppliers andcustomers. CCS is proud to be an equal opportunities employer. CCS believes that diversity and inclusion is critical to our success and we seek to recruit, develop and retain the most talented people.
We want to make our recruitment process accessible to everyone, so if there is any way that we can support you, please contact
Seniority level Seniority level Not Applicable
Employment type Employment type Full-time
Job function Job function Information Technology
Industries Government Administration
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