489941 - Lead Cyber Security Risk Manager - Home Office Cyber Security

Government Recruitment Service; Glasgow; Hybrid; GBP 56,000 - 69,000; Full time

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Job summary

Home Office Cyber Security is seeking a Lead Cyber Security Risk Manager to oversee risk-based assurance across projects and live services. You will provide independent challenge, identify cyber risks to critical systems, and guide remediation with a strong governance mindset.

You will work within the Compliance and Assurance team, collaborating with senior leaders to ensure auditable risk decisions and secure by design principles across the service lifecycle.

Qualifications

• Experience leading cyber security assurance activities across projects and live services.
• Ability to challenge risk assessments, controls and evidence objectively.

Responsibilities

• Independently lead risk-based cyber security assurance within a portfolio of projects and services.
• Derive and analyse security needs, evaluating controls and evidence for adequacy.
• Produce clear, evidence-based assurance opinions highlighting risks and remediation.
• Develop and maintain risk management policies aligned to regulation and government standards.
• Communicate with senior stakeholders to ensure security considerations influence outcomes.
• Lead improvements in risk management processes and remediation tracking.
• Ensure identified risks are managed per Home Office risk management policies.

Skills

Risk management

Cyber security

Stakeholder engagement

Governance

Job description

489941 - Lead Cyber Security Risk Manager - Home Office Cyber Security

Home Office Digital designs, builds and develops services for the rest of the department and for government. Every year our systems support up to 3 million visa applications, checks on 100 million border crossings, up to 8 million passport applications and deliver 140 million police checks on people, vehicles and property.

As a Lead Cyber Security Risk Manager in the Compliance and Assurance team, you will lead proportionate, risk-based cyber security assurance across Home Office projects and live services, identifying, assessing and helping mitigate cyber risks to critical national infrastructure and business-critical systems. Drawing on a range of evidence and your expertise, you will provide independent challenge and advice throughout the service lifecycle, enabling stakeholders, including senior leaders, to make informed, auditable decisions about cyber risk.

You’ll be joining an expert team of cyber professionals, committed to reducing the exposure to cyber-attack of new and existing digital systems. You’ll be aided in your role by a diverse and supportive organisational culture, and a commitment to further your continuous development.

The Lead Cyber Security Risk Manager supports, plans and develops the implementation and management of organisation-wide processes and procedures for the management, assurance or governance of cyber risk. They will provide tailored expert support and advice that highlights cyber security risks to a range of stakeholders, projects, business teams and service owners, helping them to remedy identified risks by enabling well-informed and auditable decisions, using published guidance and standards, and drawing on a range of experts as well as personal expertise.

Company: Government Recruitment Service

Salary: from £62,732 a year

Hours: Full-time

Location: Glasgow

Working pattern: Hybrid - 2 days remote

Job type: Permanent

Posting date: 11 Nov 2026

Closing date: 23 Nov 2026

Essential responsibilities

• As a Lead Cyber Security Risk Manager, your main responsibilities will be;Independently and impartially undertaking risk management activities within a given area of practice or expertise, usually within established security and risk management governance structures.
• You will lead the independent derivation and analysis of security needs including assuring, evaluating and challenging the adequacy of risk assessments, controls and evidence, while retaining the ability to undertake targeted assurance activity where necessary.
• Lead and prioritise proportionate, risk-based second-line cyber security assurance across an assigned portfolio of projects, live services and product areas, ensuring assurance effort is focused on the areas of greatest material risk and formulate clear, evidence-based assurance opinions, identifying material control weaknesses, residual risks, dependencies and limitations, and provide recommendations to support informed and auditable risk decisions.
• Developing risk management-related policy and assure the ongoing appropriateness of policy in accordance with regulation and wider organisational and government policies, embedding Secure by Design principles where appropriate.
• Communicating effectively with senior stakeholders to ensure they recognise the importance of security considerations and advising senior stakeholders on their approach to risk assessment in the context of their organisational outcomes, providing independent constructive challenge where appropriate.
• Managing risk management processes, reviewing their efficiency and effectiveness, and leading recommendations for continuous improvement. This includes reviewing internal controls following any security breach, providing advice on how to remediate any vulnerabilities discovered, and agreeing and overseeing remedial solutions, controls and safeguards, including tracking assurance findings where appropriate.
• Assessing reviews and risk assessments and ensuring identified risks are managed in accordance with Home Office risk management policies, including assurance outcomes and remediation activity where applicable.

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