NMC Cyber Security Engineering Lead

Police Digital Service; Wigan; Hybrid; GBP 45,000 - 75,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual leave 28 days + bank holidays

Flexible working hours

Wellbeing programme (EAP)

Pension scheme

Remote GP / health services

Volunteer day

Job summary

Police Digital Service in the United Kingdom seeks an experienced NMC Cyber Security Engineering Lead to guide the team responsible for the technology platforms and tooling underpinning security operations across the National Management Centre. The role focuses on leading SIEM and tooling efforts, collaborating with frontline policing partners, and ensuring robust cyber defenses.

It offers hybrid working and a competitive salary starting at £75,000 per annum.

Qualifications

• Experience supporting and developing SIEM platforms in a Security Operations Centre context.
• Ability to create, test, implement, and support custom tooling for security operations.
• Ability to take initiative and deliver quality work with limited supervision.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills for technical topics.
• Proven line management experience leading security engineers and analysts.
• Ability to coordinate, track and report project milestones, risks and blockers to senior management.
• Broad cyber security awareness with practical experience.
• Relevant cloud certification or equivalent experience.
• Previous public sector experience.
• Experience with Microsoft Power Platform, Azure DevOps, Microsoft Sentinel (or other SIEMs).
• Experience working with code repositories and CI/CD.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to technical designs and documentation for new and existing solutions.
• Act as escalation point / SME for team members.
• Provide support to forces for configuration of Sentinel and log sources.
• Coordinate testing, implementation and configuration of new data sources.
• Contribute to management of SIEM content such as detections.
• Line management responsibilities for NMC Cyber Security Engineers.
• Collaborate with wider NMC teams on continual service improvement and innovations.

Skills

SIEM platforms

Security Operations Centre

Custom tooling

Leadership

Communication

Project milestones

Cyber security awareness

Cloud certification

Public sector experience

Microsoft Sentinel

Azure DevOps

Code repositories

CI/CD

Tools

Microsoft Sentinel

Job description

We are excited you have visited our Careers page. We are seeking talented individuals that are excellent in their field of expertise and are posed with all potential and skills necessary to help us meet future business challenges.

Join Police Digital Service as NMC Cyber Security Engineering Lead

Salary starting at £75,000 per annum

The NMC Cyber Security Engineering Lead will be responsible for leading a team in the creation, configuration, and maintenance of the technology platforms and tooling that underpin security operations within the National Management Centre.

Working as part of a dedicated and flexible team, you will play a key role in helping to protect front-line policing from cyber-attacks.

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.

Our vision is to support UK policing to keep people safe, get more from technology investments and make better use of public money, and we’re always on the lookout for great talent to help us achieve this.

The National Management Centre (NMC) is part of Police Digital Services and provides visibility and control of information risks for policing. It supports the 24x7x365 nature of police operations, providing a threat detection and response capability for digital services before, during and after cyber-attacks, enabling stakeholders to understand and proactively manage risk across the technology estate at both the national and force level.

Key Responsibilities

• Contribute towards technical designs and documentation for new and existing solutions.
• Act as a point of escalation / subject matter expert for other members of the team.
• Providing support to forces for the configuration of Sentinel and log sources.
• Co-ordination of the testing, implementation and configuration of new data sources.
• Contribute towards the management of SIEM content such as detections.
• Line Management responsibilities for NMC Cyber Security Engineers.
• Working with wider NMC teams, contributing to Continual Service Improvement and innovations.

What you need to succeed in the role

• Experience of supporting and developing SIEM platforms in the context of a Security Operations Centre across a multi-tenant environment.
• Practical experience in the creation, testing, implementation, and support of custom tooling to support Security Operations.
• Initiative and the ability to produce quality work without close supervision.
• Good written and verbal communication skills, particularly in relation to technical subjects.
• Proven line management experience leading security engineers and analysts
• Co-ordinate, track and report on project milestones, risks and blockers to senior management
• Broad cyber security awareness and practical experience.
• Relevant cloud certification or equal experience.
• Previous public sector experience.
• Experience with Microsoft Power Platform, Azure DevOps, Microsoft Sentinel (or other SIEM’s).
• Experience working with code repositories and CI/CD.

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 8 to 6, 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
• Community - one paid day off per year for volunteering

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

At the NMC, you will benefit from hybrid working, getting the advantages of both face-to-face team engagement and home working. NMC employees have the opportunity to work in our modern office environment for in-person collaboration, alongside the opportunity to work from home 2 days a week.

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