Senior Technical Lead

Government Recruitment Service; Birmingham; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A government agency in Birmingham is seeking a Senior Technical Lead to enhance cybersecurity solutions against threats. This role requires expertise in Splunk and leadership in secure service design aligned with organizational standards. The ideal candidate will guide technical strategies and manage product lifecycles while ensuring operational resilience and compliance in a dynamic environment.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in cybersecurity roles.
• Strong leadership skills in technical environments.
• Expertise in implementing security measures and compliance.

Responsibilities

• Ensure secure and highly available computing platforms.
• Lead on technical decisions for solutions.
• Advise on developing DWP technical strategy.

Skills

Expertise in Splunk

Knowledge of security best practices

Experience in secure solution design

Skills in AWS and Azure applications

Tools

Splunk Enterprise Security

Cloud services (AWS, Azure)

Job description

Are you excited about the opportunity to protect critical citizen facing services from cyber-attacks at scale?

Are you the type of person who in thrilled by new technologies, hungry to learn new techniques to defend against global cyber threats?

Are you an engaging leader with advanced technical skills?

Are you a cybersecurity domain expert who thrives on designing and developing secure solutions?

We are looking to expand our team with a range of cybersecurity expertise, including threat hunting, purple teams, secure development, devsecops and secure-by-design.

If so, click that apply button now and join us as a Senior Technical Lead.

Senior Technical Leads (Security) are responsible for the development of secure and highly available computing platforms, AWS, SaaS, Azure applications, and services. Utilising Technical expertise in multiple domains to develop technical product roadmaps and manage product lifecycles ensuring full alignment with DWP Strategy.

This specific role relates to SIEM using Splunk and Splunk Enterprise Security.

As a Senior Technical Lead, you will be a skilled Practitioner in Security solutions, specifically with Splunk and Splunk Enterprise Security skills. You will lead in the design and operation of secure services and software in collaboration with Architecture and Engineering principles. With a focus on operational stability, robustness, resilience, availability, and quality, you will be accountable for secure solutions.

You will work in our Security Ecosystem team, supporting the delivery of Security related Projects and initiatives, ensuring alignment to Security best practice and compliance requirements. You will lead on technical decisions and approvals for solutions across the team. The Senior Technical Lead should provide technical input into business discussions to direct wider DWP strategy as required based on their deep technical experience in areas such as software development, site reliability engineering, devsecops, and solution architecture.

Please note this role requires you to pass Security Check clearance. For further information, please see 'Selection process details'.

• Responsible for providing expert domain knowledge and advice to project teams when dealing with complex projects or issues.
• Maintain relationships both internally and externally, reconciling on priorities and agreeing on approach, tooling, or strategy improvements.
• Advise on problems arising from specific work programmes or from implementation of proposed changes in Departmental policy and make balanced recommendations.
• Managing performance against the technical roadmap for every product within responsible function area.
• Advise senior DWP stakeholders on the development of DWP technical strategy including viability of improvements, estimated timescales and means needed to implement agreed strategy.
• Work with production, security, and infrastructure teams to ensure highly resilient, secure, and available products.
• Work closely with delivery team to ensure alignment to DWP standards and best practice for all product development and support.