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Technical Lead

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

DWP. Digital with Purpose.

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.

• A Strong working knowledge with a deep understanding of each layer of an organisation\'s cyber security controls, designing solutions that enable defence in depth and services with security controls embedded.
• Significant experience of implementing enterprise security tooling and platforms in line with the NIST cyber security framework or equivalent, and CIS security controls.
• Influential and able to lead investigative work into problems and opportunities in existing processes, driving the collection of information and creation of recommendations for improvements. Can absorb large amounts of conflicting information and use it to determine solutions.
• Extensive experience and proven track record in designing, implementing, administering and supporting Security products and services, ensuring adherence to Digital Security Standards and Architectural Principles both on premise and in Cloud.
• Significant experience in working hands on with the business and SME\'s to define use cases and developing searches in Splunk Enterprise Security to provide the required security alerting across multiple tools.

We\'re on the lookout for a Tech Lead who\'s passionate about secure by design principles and thrives in the world of Splunk, threat hunting, purple teaming and DevSecOps. If you\'re someone who enjoys shaping secure solutions and influencing strategy at scale this could be your next move.

You'll be joining our Security Ecosystem team, where you'll lead on technical decisions, drive secure development and help us build resilient, high-quality services across AWS, Azure and SaaS platforms. Your expertise in Splunk and Splunk Enterprise Security will be key as you guide the design and operation of secure systems that support millions.

This is a hands-on leadership role where your deep technical knowledge will help steer DWP's wider strategy. You'll collaborate with architecture and engineering teams, advise senior stakeholders and make sure our products are secure, stable and aligned with best practices.

If you're ready to make a real impact and bring your cybersecurity skills to a team that values innovation and resilience, hit apply now.

Location: You'll join us in one of our brilliant digital hubs in Birmingham, Leeds, London, Manchester or Newcastle, whichever is most convenient for you.

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.

Pay: We offer competitive pay of up to £89,995.

Pension: You'll get a brilliant civil service pension with employer contributions worth 28.97%, worth over £21,000 per year.

Holidays: A generous leave package starting at 26 days rising to 31 days over time.

You can also take up to 3 extra days off a month on flexi-time. You'll also get all the usual public holidays.

We have a broad benefits package built around your work-life balance which includes:

• 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, so it\'s even easier for you to get to work and start making a difference
• Professional development, coaching, mentoring and career progression opportunities.

We know your time is valuable, so our application and selection process are just two stages:

Apply: complete your application on Civil Service Jobs. There\'ll be full instructions when you click through.

Interview: a single stage interview online.

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