Cyber Security Practitioner

3 months ago

Leeds, United Kingdom Department of Health and Social Care Full time

**Details**:
**Reference number**:

- 288040**Salary**:

- £50,829- National: £50,829 Outer London (Reading): £52,741 G7 MPS Allowance
- £10,000**Job grade**:

- Grade 7**Contract type**:

- Permanent
- Loan
- Secondment**Length of employment**:

- These roles are being advertised on a permanent basis. Loan or Secondment options will also be available if preferable.**Business area**:

- DHSC - Group Operations**Type of role**:

- Information Technology
- Risk Management**Working pattern**:

- Flexible working, Full-time, Job share, Part-time**Number of jobs available**:

- 2Contents

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About the job

**Benefits**:
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Location
- Burnley, Leeds, ReadingAbout the job

**Job summary**:
In DHSC, we are proud of our purpose - to enable everyone to live more independent, healthier lives for longer. To achieve this, and create a great place to work, we have four values: we are inclusive, we constantly improve, we challenge, and we are agile. If this sounds like an environment you’d like to work in, we’d love to hear from you.

The Workspace, Information, Security, and Technology Directorate (WIST) is responsible for the provision of the property and technology that the Department needs to deliver its objectives. The role of WIST is to provide innovative and great value property, security and technology solutions to enable people to operate efficiently and effectively.

Our aim is to:

- Provide healthy, safe, efficient, sustainable, secure and smart places to work that maximise productivity.
- Provide technology solutions that are fit for purpose, available, stable, and resilient enabling collaboration and productivity.
- Safeguard our people & estate from attacks; minimise insider threats; assures the integrity of our systems & plan ahead to manage disruptions.

As part of current locations planning and review this role is being advertised at the WIST offices identified in the linked locations with a possibility of adding more locations in future including Newcastle Upon Tyne.

**Job description**:
Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) Cyber Security’s simple purpose is to secure the Department in cyberspace. DHSC Cyber is comprised of three core function areas, Security Operations, Business Support and team management. As a Lead Cyber Security Practitioner within DHSC Cyber, you will focus on either the Operations or Business Support function but would be expected to support the other functions as needed.

Our Security Operations function works with the DHSC Supplier managed Security Operations Centre (SOC) to analyse data across the estate and wider, identifying threat or malicious cyber activity, investigate and take steps to mitigate DHSCs exposure. Additionally, the SOC function takes a leading role in the response to cyber incidents by clearly and calmly communicating issues, helping to identify a solution and assisting in management to a resolution.

Whichever function is the focus you will be a proven leader, with a naturally inquisitive mind. You will also have very strong communication skills. You must be able to communicate business risk and technical matters to senior management in a simple and understandable way.

**Person specification**:
**Role Responsibilities**:

- Contribute to and take a leading role in the delivery of DHSCs evolving security and technology landscape.
- Assist in collaboratively defining and ensuring managed delivery of SOC in association with 3rd party suppliers
- Undertake stakeholder management for major projects partnering Senior Programme Leadership and governance boards and ensuring the cyber work commitment required is delivered to time and quality.
- Act as an escalation point for cyber security related incidents and problem management ensuring their resolution.
- Act as an empowered deputy for the Head of Cyber at key meetings.
- Identify and manage (escalating as needed) cyber risks for the business to influence appropriate decisions in keeping with the DHSC risk appetite and subsequently assist with risk minimisation.
- Collaborate with governance and compliance teams to manage and handle Cyber Security risks.
- Ensure delivery of technical security activities to identify vulnerabilities and plan risk-based mitigating actions.
- Research, identify, validate and embrace new technologies and methodologies.
- Provide peer reviews and coaching and mentoring as appropriate.
- Undertake line management responsibilities.

**Key Skills and Experience**:

- Advising and/or delivery of security aspects of major projects/services.
- Demonstrable experience designing & delivering information security & risk management aligned to corporate risk appetite across several enterprises.
- Demonstrable understanding of cloud security and appreciation of zero trust principles.
- Ability to demonstrate a deep knowledge of security and privacy risks and threats along with a strong understanding of key considerations such as confidentiality, avai

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