Information Security Officer

British Broadcasting Corporation; Salford; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 44,000; Full time

Job summary

Join the BBC's Security Operations Centre and play a vital role in protecting the organisation from cyber threats. This position offers a unique opportunity to work on high-profile events while developing your skills in a supportive environment. With a focus on career progression and flexible working, this role is ideal for those passionate about security and eager to learn.

Benefits

Flexible working hours

25 days annual leave plus option to buy 5 more

Defined pension scheme

Discounted dental, health care, and gym

Qualifications

• Experience working in a SOC and/or using a SIEM tool (ideally Splunk).
• Knowledge of the current cyber threat landscape.
• Ability to convey complex technical information to non-technical staff.

Responsibilities

• Ensure incidents are dealt with appropriately to mitigate risks.
• Support during major security incidents.
• Conduct research on current threats and produce reports.

Skills

Problem-solving

Communication

Teamwork

Technical literacy

Tools

SIEM tools

Job description

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Package Description

Job Requisition: 23117

Band: C

Salary range: Up to £44,000 depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.

Contract type: Permanent

Location: Salford - Dock House.

We’re happy to discuss flexible working. Please indicate your choice under the flexible working question in the application. There is no obligation to raise this at the application stage but if you wish to do so, you are welcome to. Flexible working will be part of the discussion at offer stage.

Excellent career progression – the BBC offers great opportunities for employees to seek new challenges and work in different areas of the organisation.

Unrivalled training and development opportunities – our in-house Academy hosts a wide range of internal and external courses and certification.

Benefits - We offer a negotiable salary package, a flexible 35-hour working week for work-life balance and 25 days annual leave with the option to buy an extra 5 days, a defined pension scheme and discounted dental, health care and gym. You can find out more about working at the BBC by selecting this link to our candidate pack.

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Job Introduction

A career in Information Security in the BBC offers a unique experience to support the BBC with its desire to inform, educate and entertain. In the past 12 months we have been instrumental in supporting large scale events such as the Local, General and US Elections, the Paris Olympics, Euro 24 as well as help our colleagues continue to accurately report the news from high-risk areas across the globe. The BBC are committed to becoming the world's first global, digital public service media organisation, with a creative, innovative culture admired worldwide, where the best people do their best work. It really is a great time to join us.

We are looking for an inquisitive, passionate professional seeking to progress their career in the BBC’s Security Operations Centre. Under the leadership and guidance of the specialist in the team, your main responsibilities will be to ensure the SOC is best placed to protect the BBC in the current threat landscape and to deal with any incidents as and when they occur. A keen understanding of the latest cyber-attack patterns would be beneficial as well as an inquisitive mindset and desire to learn.

Whilst the SOC does provide 24x7 cover, the majority of shifts are during sociable hours with a minimal requirement to work nights and weekends. (One weekend in four and one set of nights a month). Whilst we do offer flexible and remote working, the role is based in Media City, Salford and there will be a requirement to come into the office on a regular basis (5 designated days every 4 weeks).

We offer a competitive package and are committed to providing relevant and invaluable training.

Interview process

1 hour on MS Teams Technical and Value-based interview.

Main Responsibilities

Incident Response

• Work as part of a team to ensure incidents are dealt with appropriately to mitigate any potential risks to the BBC.
• Support the SOC manager and Shift Lead during major security incidents, liaising with other BBC departments as necessary.
• Work on the development of new protective monitoring use cases / runbooks to help detect and remediate security issues, especially where you have identified any gaps in our monitoring capability.
• Provide support to the Digital Forensics team where requested as part of formal investigations.

Threat Intelligence and Vulnerability Management

• Carry out research and produce reports to ensure the BBC is aware of the current threat landscape and we can best protect ourselves against emerging threats.
• Carry out vulnerability scanning to identify areas of risk in the BBC and work with the relevant teams to ensure these risks are quickly mitigated.

Project/Roadmap support

• Work with your Shift Lead to deliver projects within the SOC as part of the Information Security strategic roadmap.
• Identify and work on projects that will improve the SOC’s monitoring and detection capability.

Are you the right candidate?

We don’t expect every candidate to meet all our requirements. Our main requirements are to find someone with an inquisitive mindset, a passion for security and a desire to learn; everything else we can teach you along the way. So, whether you have recently graduated, looking for a career change or already have some experience in Information Security, if you meet all the above and some of the below, we’d be happy to meet you.

• Experience of working within a SOC and/or using a SIEM tool (ideally Splunk)
• Experience of working in a team in a technical discipline.
• Knowledge of the current cyber threat landscape and an understanding of how organisations can protect themselves in it.
• Highly effective and creative problem-solving skills, across a broad range of scenarios.
• Ability to convey and explain complex technical information to non-technical staff.
• Ability to manage multiple tasks and work streams effectively and prioritise accordingly.
• Excellent written and verbal communication and presentation skills.
• Highly IT literate, able to work quickly and precisely on a variety of systems, often under pressure and to important deadlines.
• Confidence to make decisions where appropriate and to ask for assistance when necessary.

About The BBC

The BBC is committed to redeploying employees seeking suitable alternative employment within the BBC for different reasons and they will be given priority consideration ahead of other applicants. Priority consideration means for those employees seeking redeployment their application will be considered alongside anyone else at risk of redundancy, prior to any individuals being considered who are not at risk.

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Diversity matters at the BBC. We have a working environment where we value and respect every individual's unique contribution, enabling all of our employees to thrive and achieve their full potential.

We want to attract the broadest range of talented people to be part of the BBC – whether that’s to contribute to our programming or our wide range of non-production roles. The more diverse our workforce, the better able we are to respond to and reflect our audiences in all their diversity.

We are committed to equality of opportunity and welcome applications from individuals, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, socio-economic background, religion and/or belief. We will consider flexible working requests for all roles, unless operational requirements prevent otherwise.

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