Head of Cyber Operations

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

- 367374**Salary**:

- £69,200- Capability & Skills Allowance: An additional allowance may be payable, pending a capability and skills assessment, with a value of up to £26,400. Please see advert for more information.- A Civil Service Pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%**Job grade**:

- Grade 6**Contract type**:

- Permanent**Business area**:

- HO - Digital Data and Technology - Cyber Security**Type of role**:

- Digital
Information Technology
Security**Working pattern**:

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

- 1Contents

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About the job

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- ManchesterAbout the job

**Job summary**:
Head of Cyber Security Operations is responsible for leading the Detect & Response, Threat Operations and Engineering teams that work 24/7 to protect the department from cyber threats.

As a member of the Home Office Cyber Security (HOCS) Senior Leadership Team, you will oversee the protection of sensitive data and systems which underpin the department’s Critical National Infrastructure including but not limited to Borders, Immigration and Citizenship, Policing and Fire.

This is a unique opportunity to play a pivotal role in safeguarding the security of the UK’s digital assets.

**Job description**:
As **Head of Cyber Security Operations **your responsibilities will include:

- Leading large operations teams and overseeing the design, development, and delivery of automated monitoring processes, advising on the latest Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) and network analysis tools, techniques and procedures to detect malicious activity, while communicating directly with leadership on the progress and status of monitoring.
- Identifying new and emerging technologies, products, services, methods, and techniques to enhance the operation capabilities of the Cyber Security Operations Centre (CSOC); and assessing their benefits, cost, performance, and sustainability in safeguarding business delivery.
- Setting direction and recommending investment in tooling and capability to address strategic enterprise-wide risk.
- Overseeing the wider implementation of a monitoring strategy, ensuring roadmaps are achieved as expected, ensuring requirements, policies, and standards to govern all activities and outputs are met.
- Leading on senior stakeholder engagement across government to create plans in aligning CSOC operations with wider government strategies.
- Overseeing the implementation of security incident management strategy including the people, processes and technology that underpin it.
- Providing advice to senior leadership on ways to improve control mechanisms, identify, evaluate, and mitigate risks.

**Note**: The Head of Cyber Security Operations may be required to carry out other duties within the scope of the grade and within the limits of their skill, competence, and training.

Due to the nature of the role, this post is available on a full-time basis only.

**Person specification**:
**Essential skills**

We are looking for a Cyber Security specialist looking for a new and interesting challenge with the following skills, knowledge or prove experience in;
- Leading and developing cross-functional teams.
- Knowledge of targeted cyber-attacks, particularly on how to respond and mitigate their impacts.
- Experience in performing monitoring, conducting analysis, and overseeing recovery procedures.
- Communicating effectively at senior levels, including up to ministerial level, about cyber threats and incidents to build. awareness and support incident remediation.

**Technical skills**

**SFIA capability framework**

Skills for the information age (SFIA) is the technical framework that sets the standard capability and development of all DDaT skills in the Home Office. This is a link to the capability framework: All skills A-Z — English (sfia-online.org). We use set SFIA technical skills to form our interview questions and we will assess you against these technical skills during the selection process.

Strategy and Architecture
- Governance, Risk and Compliance
- Risk Management (BURM) - Level 4
- Strategy and Planning
- Strategic Planning (ITSP) - Level 4
- Security and Privacy
- Information Security (SCTY) - Level 4
- Advice and Guidance
- Specialist Advice (TECH) - Level 4

Change and Transformation
- Change Planning
- Business Process Improvement (BPRE) - Level 5

Relationships and Engagement
- Stakeholder Management
- Stakeholder Relationship Management (RLMT) - Level 5

The skills listed above are reflective of the Home Office DDaT Profession Skills and Competency Model (based on the industry standard SFIA framework).

**Qualifications**

Essential

Desirable
- A degree in Cyber Security or appropriate level of proven, demonstrable, and current experience in a similar role/environment
- Achieved appropriate level of qualifications such as CISSP, CISM or qualifications from an industry r