Defence Digital

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

- 274948**Salary**:

- £54,440- A Recruitment and Retention allowance (RRA) of up to £9k is payable, paid in increments upon reaching the required level of competence. Appropriate London weighting will be applied to London based roles.**Job grade**:

- Grade 7- B2**Contract type**:

- Permanent**Business area**:

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

- Risk Management
- 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
- This position can be based at either MOD Corsham, Wiltshire SN13 9NR or Main Building, London, SW1A 2HBAbout the job

**Job summary**:
Are you ready to work in one of the most interesting cyber security environments and share your experience to support national security?

The Cyber Defence & Risk (CyDR) team plays an integral role in protecting the UK against external and internal cyber security threats to ensure that our Armed Forces have the strong cyber defences they need. The team is responsible for enabling Defence operations and capabilities, providing specialist cyber security services across UK Defence (including industry) and working our international allies. Services provided by CyDR include:

- MOD defensive cyber strategy and transformation roadmap development,
- Development of cyber security policy and architecture standards,
- Managing and driving mitigation of Departmental cyber risk,
- Security assurance and accreditation support and advice to transformation programmes.

This is an exciting time to be a cyber-security professional in the Ministry of Defence, joining a growing team of military and civilian staff to tackle some of our most exciting challenges.

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

This position is advertised at 37 hours per week.

**Job description**:
The UK’s most sensitive information, operations and capabilities are enabled and protected using high grade government encryption (known as ‘Crypt-Key’). It is this unique technology that enables MOD systems to be robustly secure, despite working over untrusted networks, in the face of the most technically advanced, hostile and persistent global threats.

The Cyber Defence and Risk (CyDR) Crypt-Key Enterprise Authority (CKEA) overseas the provision of Crypt-Key (CK) for Defence, providing technical, policy advice, guidance, and direction across the MOD Crypt-Key enterprise - including the Joint Crypt-Key Programme (JCKP).

The role:

- The Cyber Security Risk Leader will be responsible for identifying, tracking, reporting, and managing crypt-key risk across Defence.
- Working across the Military Commands, our allies, and international partners, you will develop strategies to ensure the UK gets ahead, and remains ahead, of advanced persistent threats.
- You will be a key pillar of the senior leadership team, maintaining a highly motivated, specialised team across multiple locations.

Responsibilities will include:

- Design and lead a comprehensive, active programme of risk management and mitigation, focused on risk identification, capture, management and reporting across CKEA governance. This will span technical, operational, organisational and procedural risk.
- Make and identify connections across different MOD settings, spanning the Cyber Defence and Risk Directorate, military commands, National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) and wider industrial stakeholders.
- Ensure key stakeholders across UK Strategic Command (UK StratCom), Military Commands and other government Agencies have one understanding of Defence Crypt-Key risk and obsolescence plans, targets, and expectations. Ensure all key stakeholders have one understanding of risk and resilience, clarifying an appropriate process, roles, responsibilities, targets and expectations.
- Co-ordinate risk management to and from the multiple (often complex) stakeholder groups, ensuring capabilities are aligned and MOD programmes and projects can deliver successfully.

There will be routine travel within the UK, and occasional overseas travel.

**Benefits**

Joining Defence Digital allows you to benefit from excellent learning and development opportunities tailored to your role and wider career. Whilst in post, you’ll be able to gain industry recognised qualifications and we’ll support you throughout the process. You will also be able to take advantage of our excellent benefits package, including flexible working, generous leave allowance, discount services and a market-leading Civil Service pension.

This role is also eligible for a Recruitment and Retention allowance (RRA) of up to £9k per annum, paid in increments, upon reaching the required level of competence.

**Person specification**:
Whilst not essential, it may be beneficial to have the following desirable industry qualifications or accreditat