Tech Lead

DWP Digital; Lancashire; Hybrid; GBP 76,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading government agency in the UK seeks a Tech Lead to enhance digital services. You will lead technical decisions, implementing security measures across AWS, Azure, and other platforms. The ideal candidate has strong knowledge in cyber security and experience with enterprise security tools. This role offers a competitive salary up to £89,995, hybrid working options, generous holidays, and various additional benefits.

Benefits

Flexible hours

Generous leave starting from 26 to 31 days

Pension contributions worth 28.97%

Professional development opportunities

Discounts on shopping

Interest-free loans for bikes or season tickets

Qualifications

• Strong working knowledge of cyber security controls at each layer of an organisation’s architecture.
• Experience implementing enterprise security tooling suitable for cloud environments.
• Extensive experience in administering security products and services.

Responsibilities

• Lead technical decisions and ensure secure development across various platforms.
• Collaborate with teams to maintain product security and stability.
• Work hands-on to develop security alerting in Splunk Enterprise Security.

Skills

Cyber security controls

Enterprise security tooling

Splunk Enterprise Security

Job description

Overview

We're looking for an outstanding Tech Lead, who wants to contribute to demanding and exciting digital services for the UK Government. We're using fresh ideas and leading-edge tech to build and maintain digital solutions that will be used by nearly every person in the UK, every day and at key moments in their lives. DWP is the UK's largest government department. We help people into work and make payments worth over £195bn a year to support and empower millions of people. The scale of what we do is extraordinary, and our purpose is unique. We'd love you to join us.

What skills, knowledge and experience will you need?

Responsibilities

• Lead technical decisions and drive secure development across AWS, Azure and SaaS platforms.
• Collaborate with architecture and engineering teams to ensure products are secure, stable and aligned with best practices.
• Design, implement, administer and support security products and services, ensuring adherence to Digital Security Standards and Architectural Principles, both on premise and in Cloud.
• Work hands-on with the business and SMEs to define use cases and develop searches in Splunk Enterprise Security to provide security alerting across multiple tools.
• Take an investigative approach to problems and opportunities in existing processes, driving information collection and recommendations for improvements.
• Embed secure-by-design principles, threat hunting, purple teaming and DevSecOps into the development lifecycle.

Qualifications

• Strong working knowledge of cyber security controls at each layer of an organisation’s architecture, designing solutions with defence-in-depth and security controls embedded.
• Experience implementing enterprise security tooling and platforms in line with the NIST Cyber Security Framework or equivalent, and CIS security controls.
• Extensive experience designing, implementing, administering and supporting security products and services, ensuring adherence to Digital Security Standards and Architectural Principles, across on‑premise and cloud environments.
• Experience working with the business and SMEs to define use cases and to develop Splunk Enterprise Security searches for security alerting.

Disability and Inclusion

Disability Confident: A Disability Confident employer will generally offer an interview to any applicant that declares they have a disability and meets the minimum criteria for the job as defined by the employer. It is important to note that in certain recruitment situations, such as high‑volume, seasonal and high‑peak times, the employer may wish to limit the overall numbers of interviews offered to both disabled people and non‑disabled people. For more details please go to .

Benefits and Working Arrangements

Pay up to £89,995 plus 28.97% employer pension contributions, hybrid working, flexible hours, and great work life balance.

• Hybrid Working: We work a hybrid model – you’ll spend some time working at home and some time collaborating face to face in a hub.
• Pension: Company pension with employer contributions worth 28.97%, worth over £21,000 per year.
• Holidays: Generous leave starting at 26 days rising to 31 days over time, plus up to 3 extra days off a month on flexi-time and public holidays.
• Broad benefits around work-life balance including:
• An award-winning environment and culture: Employer of the Year 2023 (Women In IT Awards), Founders Award for Outstanding Digital Leadership 2023 (Digital 100)
• Flexible working including flexible hours and flex-friendly policies
• Time off volunteering and charitable giving
• Bring your authentic self to work with "I Can Be Me in DWP"
• Discounts and savings on shopping, fun days out and more
• Interest-free loans to buy a bike or a season ticket
• Professional development, coaching, mentoring and career progression opportunities