Defence Digital

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

- 267596**Salary**:

- £33,830- Allowances: A Recruitment and Retention Allowance of up to £9k per annum may be payable with this post, paid in increments upon reaching the required level of competence.**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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- RAF Wyton, Huntingdon, PE28 2EAAbout 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?

Cyber security plays an integral role in protecting the UK against external and internal threats, acting as a deterrence to ensure that our Armed Forces have the strong cyber defences they need.

The Cyber Assessment and Advisory Service (CySAAS) provides assurance, support and advice to teams across defence. It consists of sub teams which assess specialist ICT, communication, and weapons systems.

The team is within the Cyber Defence and Risk (CyDR) organisation which sits at the forefront of Cyber Security and Information Technology within Defence. It is responsible for enabling Defence, through the provision of specialist assurance and cyber security services, across UK Defence including industry partners, other Government Departments and our international allies. Services provided by CyDR include:

- MOD defensive cyber strategy development
- Development of cyber security policy
- Managing and driving mitigation of Departmental cyber risk
- Security assurance and accreditation support and advice

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.

With a fantastic growing team of military and civilian staff operating across the UK it is a great time to be a cyber security professional in the Ministry of Defence.

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

This post is advertised for 37 hours per week

**Job description**:
As Cyber Security Assessor - In Service Systems within the CySAAS team, you will provide timely, impartial and consistent assessment and advisory services across the department and our industry partners. You may lead a small team providing assessment and advisory services.

Your knowledge and experience will provide expertise, to ensure an accurate understanding of through-life cyber security risks, to assist in making informed business decisions. You will work with projects that involve complex technical and security challenges, which may include highly sensitive networks, cryptography and next-generation platforms. Along the way, you will strengthen links with other cyber security bodies and business functions, including business delivery partners, who provide project-based assurance activities.

As a cyber security professional, you will bring a proven ability to communicate at a range of levels within a diverse organisation. A key aspect of the role will require a talent for solving complex problems through innovation. You will have the ability to advise on complex risk balance decisions and explaining cyber security policy, governance and technology to non-experts. With you on board, we will develop a culture across UK Defence which values and protects data.

As a cyber security assessor, you will be responsible for confirming, in the form of assurance, that a project has provided appropriate evidence to give the Senior Responsible Owner (SRO) confidence that the appropriate risks have been understood and the implementation of any system, platform or infrastructure has been adequately secured as a result.

You will do this by considering any national and departmental regulations and identifying risks that present an unacceptable threat to Defence and in turn national security. Where such implementations do not conform to national or departmental policy, as the lead assessor, you will be required to advise the Delivery team on the appropriate escalation process for a decision to be balanced against the overarching business requirement.

In return, you will benefit from excellent learning and development opportunities tailored to your role and beyond. Whilst in post, you’ll be able to gain industry recognised qualifications, such as CISSP or CRISC and more and we’ll support you throughout the process. You’ll also be able to take advantage of our excellent benefits package, including flexible working, generous leave allowance and a market-leading Civil Service pension.

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