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Cyber Security Graduate Trainee

3 months ago


Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom Newcastle University Full time

We are a world class research-intensive university. We deliver teaching and learning of the highest quality. We play a leading role in economic, social and cultural development of the North East of England. Attracting and retaining high-calibre people is fundamental to our continued success.

**Salary**: Salary in the region of £33,000 per annum

**Closing Date**: 5 May 2024

The Role

We have reimagined the way we deliver our University IT Services, building a world-class IT department responsive to the needs of our global community. We’re growing significantly and we’ve created new opportunities and made changes to how we work. Our people have been at the centre of this change, with a particular focus on development and opportunities to learn new skills.

We are investing significantly in an expanded team of cyber security professionals. This graduate trainee role will assist in protecting the University from cyber security threats to minimise the impact of such threats on the University’s activities.

The University is an exciting and dynamic place to work, dedicated to world-leading education and research. Benefits include excellent pension; flexible working options; a minimum of 37 days holiday (including public holidays); discounted travel for the Metro and local bus services; and discounts for national retailers. You can find out more on our benefits web page.

We are committed to building and maintaining a fair and inclusive working environment and we would be happy to discuss arrangements for flexible and/or blended working.

Key Accountabilities
- Security Response and Investigation

Assist with managing University 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
- Security Policy, Compliance and Risk Management

In response to legal and regulatory changes and emerging cyber security threats, contribute to recommending changes to the University’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
- Secure Computing

Perform regular vulnerability scanning and penetration testing to assist in threat detection and threat management
- Security Consulting and Education

Provide advice on achieving and maintaining compliance against externally mandated cyber security requirements
Assist in the development and maintenance of a programme of cyber security education and awareness to ensure colleagues and students are aware of cyber security threats and mitigations
- Data Reporting and Analytics

Assist in the compilation of cyber security metrics for reporting within NUIT; across the University; and where necessary external to the University
- Miscellaneous

Any other reasonable duties that fall within the scope of the post, as allocated by the line manager.

The Person

Knowledge, Skills, and Experience
- Current foundation knowledge of information security and related processes, systems, and procedures
- Practical technical knowledge relevant to their duties
- Solve problems based upon experience, and the ability to seek out new information
- Can communicate effectively with colleagues and students
- Can demonstrate practical IT and cyber security experience:
**Operating system experience, including at least one of**: Windows and Linux
Network security experience, e.g., device discovery scanning
Performing cyber security investigations
Giving advice on cyber security issues
The successful and appropriate use of encryption

Attributes and Behaviour
Delivering Services
- Knows and understands customer/stakeholder needs in terms of outputs
- Takes responsibility for achieving own targets
- Has a positive attitude for doing things better
- Looks for ways to make immediate improvements (quick wins)

Communicating
- Disseminate key organisational messages internally and ensures understanding
- Tailors content of communication to the audience, changing style, tone, and format appropriately
- Clear and concise; gets the message across to others

Team Working
- Shares relevant and useful information with others
- Keeps other team members up to date with progress
- Gets involved with team tasks
- Willing to help others and share workloads
- Operates with a number of different teams across the institution
- Looks at ways of developing cross functional co-operation and support
- Confident in adopting a range of team roles

Finding Solutions
- Uses initiative to sort things out, is enterprising in effective use of material, financ