Defence Digital

2 weeks ago


Corsham, United Kingdom Ministry of Defence Full time

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

- 256593**Salary**:

- £40,000**Job grade**:

- Senior Executive Officer**Contract type**:

- Permanent**Business area**:

- MOD - Strategic Command**Type of role**:

- Security**Working pattern**:

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

- 1Contents

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- MOD Corsham, Weswells Road, Corsham, SN13 9NRAbout the job

**Job summary**:
Would you like to use your IT knowledge, skills or technical qualifications to make a difference and help our customers deliver Defence operations, military capability and support?

Would you like to gain a recognised qualification through fully supported training and development?

Defence Digital provides digital and technology services to our Armed Forces, ensuring they can operate securely via radio, satellite, and the internet. Operating at scale, with an annual budget in excess of £2Bn and a diverse team of 2,500 colleagues, we're aiming to make our Armed Forces some of the most technologically advanced in the world. To do that we're growing our capabilities in disciplines like data science, automation and cyber security.

The SATCOM SKYNET Team is responsible for the sustainment and development of the MOD's strategic, worldwide communications capability. They are tasked with ensuring continuity of the required capability and its future development in order to satisfy the ever-increasing demand for defence communications and to defeat the growing array of sophisticated threats.

If you can see yourself contributing to the world of Defence digital and technology, the next chapter of your career may be with us

This position is advertised at 37 hours per week.

**Job description**:
The SATCOM Programme is responsible for the sustainment and development of the MOD's strategic, worldwide satellite-based communications capability.

SKYNET 6A is the UK’s next military communications satellite. The project team procuring this satellite sits within the SATCOM Delivery Team based in Corsham. SKYNET 6A is being procured from Airbus Defence and Space via a contract that was placed in 2020 to meet an In-Service Date of 2026.

The Senior Security Officer will work within the programme’s security team.

Their primary function will be to facilitate the delivery of security artifacts across multiple Programme workstreams, Lead the transition from traditional Accreditation to Secure by Design and Manage the overall Assurance process.

The team are responsible for the formal Security Assurance of SATCOM services in-line with the Secure By Design Principles, so that they can be operated by the armed forces, requiring pro-active risk management across key multiple stakeholders (Space Command, Front Line Commands, NCSC National Technical Authority, Cyber Defence and Risk (CyDR).

The Security Team are tasked with supporting all current and future SATCOM services, ensuring the Confidentiality, Integrity and Availability of each service. They provide an oversight on a complex set of security requirements delivered via multiple suppliers; requiring effective governance, review and audit capabilities to ensure that all aspects of security (Physical, Procedural, Personnel and Technical) are in place, both internally and with service suppliers.

**Responsibilities**
- Governance activities, including long term continuous improvement activities.
- Assurance and Risk management activities, including the management of risk registers and risk reviews.
- Security accreditation activities, supporting the Security and Assurance Technical Lead.
- Development, deployment, and management of an effective Information Security management System.
- SATCOM security audit activities, including scheduling, scoping and execution of audits.
- Programme Management, ensuring procurement milestones have the necessary security input for new contract.
- Effective and pro-active security stakeholder management (Space Command, Front Line Commands, NCSC National Technical Authority, CyDR).
- Maintaining the Project User Requirement Document (URD), System Requirement Document (SRD), Integrated Test Evaluation and Acceptance matrix and develop the requirements.

**Person specification**:
If you have the following skills and experience, we would love to hear from you
- Excellent problem solving and analytical skills, able to quickly assess information, producing and presenting credible recommendations and supporting reports at pace.
- Strong interpersonal and communication (including presentation) skills and a proven ability to develop, maintain and enhance relationships with a variety of internal and external contacts.
- You must be passionate about your own personal development and may already be working towards attaining industry standard qualifications. Defence Digital will support you in your personal development.
- The following experience and skills are advantageous but


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