Cyber Specialist

Police Digital Service; Greater London; Remote; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking organization as a Cyber Specialist, where you'll play a crucial role in enhancing cyber security within the UK's policing landscape. This position offers the opportunity to work on impactful projects that shape the future of law enforcement technology. You'll be responsible for providing expert advice, implementing cyber strategies, and ensuring compliance with security standards. With a commitment to innovation and collaboration, this role is perfect for those looking to make a difference in a complex and dynamic environment. Enjoy flexible working arrangements and a supportive culture that prioritizes your well-being and professional growth.

Benefits

28 days annual leave plus bank holidays

Flexible working hours

Employee Assistance Program

Excellent pension scheme

Remote GP appointments

Enhanced maternity and paternity pay

Qualifications

• 3+ years in IT security and risk consulting with complex requirements.
• Experience in security controls across IT architecture layers.

Responsibilities

• Support Cyber Delivery Manager with advice and reporting.
• Monitor trends influencing National Policing policy and Cyber services.

Skills

IT/Information Security

Risk Consulting

Cyber Security Framework

Security Solution Architecture

Stakeholder Management

Education

Relevant IT Degree

Tools

NIST Cyber Security Framework

ISO27001

Job description

Join Police Digital Service as a Cyber Specialist

Salary starting at £70,000

About Police Digital Service

To protect people from harm in our rapidly changing world, police services must not only keep up with technology and business changes but develop capabilities and ways of working that will enable them to adapt to and deal with the complexity of modern criminality.

Police Digital Service strives to be the go-to partner for technology developments and programmes across UK policing. Our team provides technical advice and delivers services to help policing and law enforcement organisations across the UK prioritise and focus on technology efforts.

Key Responsibilities

1. Support the Cyber Delivery Manager, providing specialist advice, reporting and assurance to principal stakeholders within PDS, Policing and the Home Office.
2. Support implementation of the PDS Cyber Services (CS) strategy, roadmaps and business plans, bids and business cases to ensure that PDS, PDS CS, and Police Forces achieve their short, medium and long-term objectives.
3. Monitor security, technological, social and scientific trends that could influence the National Policing policy and consulting approach and provision of Cyber services.
4. Ensure that outcomes and benefits are maximised from all people, process and technology investments – especially those that facilitate or enable improvements in policing outcomes – as part of the PDS role in leading delivery for the National Digital Policing Strategy 2020-30.
5. Advise on necessary technical and procedural governance, control systems, standards and procedures to ensure that decision making for policy and consultancy activities meet business objectives and comply with all legal, regulatory and policy standards, requirements and/or directives, at local and national levels.
6. Forge strong relationships with National Policing Programme personnel and key PDS stakeholders across Policing, enabling effective implementation of all cyber specialist activities in support of their corporate objectives.
7. Provide technical and security input and recommendations to Design Authorities and Information Security and Risk groups in reviewing and reporting risks to provide clear visibility of local and national risk exposure to policing.
8. Consult on and develop, document and maintain information security and risk policies, standards and guidelines for use by National Policing.
9. Provide security advice, secure solutions and risk identification and quantification for National Policing projects and programmes, in line with National Policing policy and standards, legislation, regulation and industry best practice.
10. Present risk assessments, recommendations and treatment options to risk owners and stakeholders, providing a comprehensive view of Cyber Security risk to risk owners.

Minimum Requirements

1. A minimum of 3 years of proven IT/Information security and risk consulting experience in organisations with complex security and compliance requirements.
2. Experience of ICT programme delivery consulting approaches and security solution architecture principles, gained through direct experience of solutions delivery in similar size organisations.
3. Experience in defining and/or implementing security controls across multiple layers of the IT architecture stack.
4. Experience in the production of, or input to, design documentation (HLDs, LLDs, blueprints etc.), supporting cloud architecture design, implementation, and operations.
5. Strong knowledge and ability to demonstrate the use of the NIST Cyber Security Framework, mapping and translating NIST Cyber Security Controls to other frameworks such as ISO27001 and CIS Top 20 controls.
6. Significant experience of designing, and delivering cyber solutions within in a large complex multi-faceted organisation, in consulting roles.
7. Demonstrate a track record of developing strong working relationships with a wide number of stakeholders, particularly in managing expectations across a large number of disparate customer, supplier and stakeholder groups.

Why Join us?

• Balance is important and we want you to take time off to recharge – we offer 28 days’ annual leave plus bank holidays, rising to 30 days after 5 years of service. Holiday Purchase also available.
• Flexible working hours - We trust you to do your job and we appreciate that life doesn’t always fit around a 9 to 5 workday. We operate core hours of 10 to 4, Monday to Friday (37hr week).
• We care about your well-being – we have an EAP that offers not just welfare benefits but also retail discounts.
• Plan for the future – we offer an excellent pension scheme and life assurance cover.
• Put your mind at rest regarding your health – offering remote GP, mental health and physiotherapy appointments via video consultation.
• Family - Enhanced maternity and paternity pay along with a flexible return to work.

We are committed to equal opportunity for all and will not discriminate on any grounds. We encourage applications from people from the widest possible span of experience. We particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) candidates and people with disabilities.

Working Arrangements

This is a remote role.

Please note, we may choose to close the advert early if we receive a high volume of applications for this role so please endeavour to complete your application as soon as possible.

All applicants must be eligible for NPPV3 and SC clearances. Successful applicants will require NPPV3 clearance to have been approved before starting with PDS.