Defence Digital

2 weeks ago

West Midlands, United Kingdom Ministry of Defence Full time

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

- 256434**Salary**:

- £33,830**Job grade**:

- Higher 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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About the job

**Benefits**:
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Location
- East Midlands (England), West Midlands (England)About the job

**Job summary**:
The Cyber Defence and Risk organisation (CyDR) is at the forefront of Cyber Security and Information Technology within Defence. The team plays a vital component in protecting MOD and national security. CyDR is responsible for enabling Defence through the provision of specialist assurance and cyber security services across the Department. This includes our industry partners, other Government Departments, including NCSC, and our international allies.

CyDR sits within the Defence Digital team who provide digital and technology services to our Armed Forces. Defence Digital operates at scale, with an annual budget in excess of £2Bn and a diverse team of 2,500 colleagues, it aims to make our Armed Forces some of the most technologically advanced in the world.

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

This position is advertised at 37 hours per week.

**Job description**:
The CyDR Crypt-Key Assurance Specialist role is primarily responsible for identifying and reducing risk or threats and enforcing cryptographic governance across defence and industry. This role supports this function via cryptographic assurance audits, within the Midlands region of the UK.

This role will include managing, prioritising, and implementing audits and formally recording their findings through audit reports, provide ad-hoc visits to high risk or failing accounts and be the main interface between end users and CKEA on assurance matters and support policy development.

Additionally, you will support end users with opening of cryptographic accounts to the correct standards and are compliant through the accreditation process. Secondary functions include capturing of analytics for specific areas of responsibility and supporting risk management within the crypt
- key enterprise, specifically regarding audit non-compliances.

This integral role will be as a member of the Crypt-Key Assurance team, a geographically separated three-person team, that represents the Crypt-Key Enterprise Authority (C-KEA), providing pivotal engagement through physical and remote audits, predominantly industry accounts within the Midlands area. There will be travel to other parts of the UK and overseas too and the frequency of these will be dependent on account category and complexity.

You will also conduct suitability engagement/inspections to ensure that Facility Security Clearance (FSC) companies, that require a Cryptographic account, have the requisite security, personnel and contract requirements. Additionally, you will assist the Assurance Manager in providing assurance statistics, to help shape future policy and doctrine

We are committed to encouraging and enabling our staff to develop in and above their role and we will support you in undertaking further learning and development opportunities, leading to industry recognised qualifications. We also will provide learning options for upskilling and further training to support your continuous professional development, within your designated field and beyond.

We are a small, highly specialised team, that performs a critical and interesting role in Defence Digital. This is a unique opportunity to join us and become part of our journey

The postholder is required to be based in one of the following locations in order to be able to travel to multiple sites across the region: Derbyshire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, Northamptonshire, Nottinghamshire, Staffordshire, Warwickshire, Worcestershire, Shropshire, Wiltshire

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

- Line-Management Responsibilities for CyDR CK Assurance Team members
- Plan, schedule and implement cryptographic audits within the West & East Midlands region, wider UK areas and overseas
- Effective management of overall Audit Schedule, including budgetary costs, ensuring that priority or failing accounts are managed accordingly including escalation action.
- Liaise with customers, principal security advisers, MOD Sponsors, and United Kingdom National Distribution Authority (UKNDA) Account Managers on all related account requests and issues.
- The completion of formal recording of audit reports and the compilation of monthly statistics on any non-compliances raised and delivery of Quarterly Assurance Analytics for CyDR CK.
- Carrying out site accreditation visits and the completion of accreditation documentation.
- Provide support to new accounts which will involve key direction on the

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