Cyber Security Officer

7 months ago


Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom Nigel Wright Group Full time

The Opportunity

Nigel Wright are excited to be exclusively working alongside a regional public sector organisation, who are looking for to recruit an experienced Cyber Security Officer, joining at an exciting time as they continue to expand their Cyber Security capability.

A fully flexible hybrid working policy exists, with the team onsite on average 2 days a week. Benefits include a market leading holiday allowance and joining a defined benefit pension scheme.

The Role

As a senior member of the team, you will be responsible for:

- Manage cyber security incidents from incident inception to resolution or mitigation, ensuring the impact to the University’s activities is insofar as possible minimised or eliminated.
- Act as a point of contact for effective reporting and tracking of cyber security incidents between the University and: Janet CSIRT; regulatory bodies; law enforcement agencies; and other relevant parties
- Monitor and respond to cyber security threats and alerting generated by cyber security and related tooling.
- Recommend changes to cyber security related risk registers; identify appropriate cyber security controls; and ensure risk and control owners are appropriately briefed on their responsibilities.
- In response to legal and regulatory changes and emerging cyber security threats, recommend changes to the business's cyber security policies and review and update the organisation's cyber security procedures ensuring that they meet the University’s business needs.
- Provide advice and recommendations on the technical aspects of cyber security compliance and supplier due diligence.
- Through the deployment of appropriate tools, provide robust processes and procedures (that may be used by others) to perform regular vulnerability scanning and penetration testing to assist in threat detection and threat management.
- Identify and recommend mitigations for cyber security weaknesses in existing and planned IT services (as well as other services that rely upon IT).
- Provide advice on achieving and maintaining compliance against externally mandated cyber security requirements.
- Develop and maintain a programme of cyber security education and awareness to ensure colleagues are aware of cyber security threats and mitigations.
- Identify and compile cyber security metrics for reporting within the business.

The Requirements

As an experienced Cyber Security technician, ideally from working within an enterprise environment, you will possess practical experience of:

- Mobile device security
- Cyber security baselines
- Operating systems, including Windows, Android, iOS and Linux.
- Network security, e.g. network mapping, device discovery scanning, firewall rule assessments.
- Performing cyber security investigations
- The successful and appropriate use of encryption in an enterprise environment

In addition, you can:

- Solve problems based upon past experience, and the ability to seek out new information.
- Communicate effectively with a range of colleagues, students and suppliers.
- Work and resolve problems in an enterprise environment
- Give advice and train on cyber security issues including server hardening

Any Cyber Security qualification will be beneficial though not essential.



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