Cyber Security Monitoring Lead

4 months ago

London, United Kingdom Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities Full time

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

- 347962**Salary**:

- £56,748-
- A Civil Service Pension with an average employer contribution of 27%**Job grade**:

- Grade 7**Contract type**:

- Fixed term**Length of employment**:

- 23 months**Type of role**:

- Digital**Working pattern**:

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

- 1Contents

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- Birmingham, Bristol, Darlington, Leeds, London, Manchester, WolverhamptonAbout the job

**Job summary**:

- The Local Digital team sits within the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities (DLUHC). The team supports councils across England to deliver more user-centred, cost-effective local public services through open, collaborative and reusable work.
- As part of our work on the Government Cyber Security Strategy’s ‘Defend as One’ pillar, we’re setting up an operational Local Government Cyber Coordination Centre. We’ll share actionable intelligence with, and between, local authorities to enable them to proactively and promptly respond to emerging threats and vulnerabilities. We’re looking for a Monitoring Lead to work closely with our team of civil servants and 3rd party cyber specialists to collect and analyse security event data and manage malicious activity.**Job description**:

- Help set up the Local Government Cyber Coordination Centre, leading in the design, development and enablement of automated monitoring processes using SIEM (Security Information and Event Management) and network analysis tools
- Support the shaping of the monitoring strategy, ensuring requirements, policies and standards to govern all activities and outputs are met
- Participate in the cyber threat advice service, sharing regular cyber threat assessments and advice for the local government sector
- Collect and analyse security event data arising from activity across the organisation, tune and improve rules generating security alerts, and follow up by investigating indicators of potentially malicious activity, escalating incidents or initiating responses
- Manage the monitoring, triaging, and investigation of security alerts to identify security incidents
- Reviewing analysis of security event data to manage security incident response, reporting, or escalation where appropriate

**Person specification**:

- Experience as a cyber security intelligence analyst, monitoring specialist and/or response specialist
- Strong knowledge of intrusion detection and analysis; able to use advanced principles of monitoring network and system activity to identify potential intrusion
- Able to use a range of advanced methods and procedures (including intelligence analysis, predictive research, root cause analysis, vulnerability report analysis) to identify, acquire, analyse and preserve artefacts by means of controlled and documented analytical and investigative techniques
- Experience of supervising and managing teams undertaking intrusion detection and analysis
- Strong knowledge of of threat intelligence and threat assessment principles and concepts, able to lead threat intelligence and assessment activities

**Benefits**:

- Alongside your salary of £56,748, Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities contributes £15,322 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.-
- Learning and development tailored to your role
- An environment with flexible working options
- A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity
- A Civil Service pension with an average employer contribution of 27%

**Transfers across the Civil Service on or after 4 October 2018**:
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**Selection process details**:
**We are for everyone**

**We would strongly recommend that applicants get in touch with the vacancy manager to find out more information about this role.**

We are for everyone

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**_ Please merge your CV and Cover Letter in one document. Your covering letter should be no more than 1 page referencing how you meet the criteria set out in the job description._**

**At sift, through your CV** we will be assessing**:

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**The interview will be of a blended nature consisting of the following success profiles elements**:
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Technical and Experience questions will be based around the essential skills and criteria as listed in the job description.

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