Principal Cyber Security Risk Manager

TipTopJob; East Midlands; On-site; GBP 52,000 - 58,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Employer pension contribution

25 days annual leave + bank holidays

Flexible working options

Job summary

DVSA is strengthening security capability across the organisation with a focus on assurance and response to protect services and customer data. You will work with the wider Security function to embed security in the service development lifecycle and provide a consolidated risk picture for Products within the Service, advising on risk acceptance within defined appetites.

You will lead a small security service group, engage with Enterprise Architecture as needed, and support risk governance across

Qualifications

• Chartered Cyber Professional or be willing to work towards becoming Chartered.
• Experience in cloud security across AWS or Azure and willingness to undertake formal training and certifi

Responsibilities

• Lead and undertake risk management activities across complex scenarios, ensuring regulatory compliance.
• Guide and direct specialist activities, promoting development in applicable skills and sharing best practices.

Skills

Cyber security

Cloud security

Education

Chartered Cyber Professional

Tools

AWS

Azure

Job description

Location: Bristol, Swansea, Leeds, Nottingham, Newcastle, Oldham (Chadderton), Birmingham Garretts Green) or Uxbridge.

Salary : A GBP 57,515 per annum

Vacancy Type: Permanent, Flexible working, Full:time, Job share, Part:time

Closing Date: 28th of September 2026

The DVSA are continuing to strengthen security capability across the business. This role will form a part of a growing Cyber function continuing to embed and maintain an assurance and response function protecting our Services and customer data.

Our work also supports the DVSA Data Strategy which has recently been refreshed. This sets the direction for making the Agency an evidence based and data driven organisation whilst maintaining an appropriate level of security of our services and data.

You will work with the wider Security function as well as supporting Service Owners and multi:disciplinary teams to ensure that security is built into the service development lifecycle and strategic planning. You will be responsible for providing the consolidated risk picture for the Products within that Service and recommending risk acceptance aligning with defined risk appetites. You will lead a small service group team of security professionals to support the assurance as well as engage as necessary with the Enterprise Architecture processes via the Security Architecture function to influence pattern adoption.

Joining Our Department Comes With Many Benefits, Including

• Employer pension contribution of 28.97 of your salary.
• 25 days annual leave, increasing by 1 day each year of service (up to a maximum of 30 days annual leave), plus 8 bank holidays a privilege day for the Kings birthday.
• Flexible working options where we encourage a great work:life balance.

Job Description

Your responsibilities will include, but arent limited to:

• Lead and undertake risk management activities against the hardest or most novel scenarios, while applying the fundamental principles of risk management to a range of complex scenarios, and lead regulatory or legislative compliance activities.
• Guide and direct specialist activities of others, actively promoting development in the applicable skills, providing leadership to other risk managers, and sharing best practice widely across government, the public sector, and industry.
• Lead the analysis and derivation of complex security needs.
• Lead Cyber Security related risk assessments and other expert risk management activities, including providing guidance on establishing the organisations Cyber Securityrelated governance arrangements.
• Provide guidance to ensure ongoing confidence that fundamental organisational security needs have been met, including integrating a range of assurance approaches and techniques to give continued confidence to the risk, service or system owner.
• Shape leadership decision:making through:
• effective reporting and communication regarding the effectiveness of security processes across an organisation
• providing recommendations to highly complex problems
• acting as an SME for complex cyber risk management concerns, issues and problems

Great line management is important to us as an organisation, and we will equip and support line managers to develop the skills set out in the Civil Service Line Management Standards.

For further information on the role, please read the attached role profile. Please note that the role profile is for information purposes only : whilst all elements are relevant to the role, they may not all be assessed during the recruitment process. This job advert will detail exactly what will be assessed during the recruitment process.

Person specification

Required Experience

• A Chartered Cyber Professional or be willing to work towards becoming Chartered.
• Demonstrate experience in cloud security across at least one platform of AWS or Azure and be willing to undertake formal training and certi