Lead Technical Recruiter (Cyber Security, Data & IT Operations) @ UK Home Office
Salary: £48,720 plus capability allowance of up to £12,680 pending assessment
Location: Croydon/Hybrid (60% office attendance)
Close Date: December 2nd 2025
Job summary
Cyber Security Monitoring at the Home Office is at the front end of protecting a large government department and safeguarding critical digital infrastructure. You’ll join an expert team of digital professionals delivering a high‑profile public protection system, operating across Home Office, MoJ, Scottish Government and Policing, to deliver a micro‑services‑based web product, hosted on AWS for central government.
The role is a mix of hands‑on AWS investigation, architectural analysis and security design work – defining the security solutions and ways of working. This will enable the collection and analysis of cloud security event data arising from activity across the organisation, tune and improve rules generating security alerts, and follow up by investigating indicators of potentially malicious activity, escalating incidents or initiating responses.
Your main day‑to‑day responsibilities will be:
* Identifying new and emerging cloud technologies, products, services, methods and techniques, assessing the potential impacts (both threats and opportunities) on business enablers, cost, performance or sustainability; communicating emerging technologies and their impact.
* Implementing the monitoring roadmap alongside DevOps to enhance monitoring in line with requirements, policies and standards to govern all activities and outputs; understanding how local protective security measures can be applied to reduce vulnerability exposure.
* Monitoring, triaging and investigating security alerts on AWS protective monitoring platforms to identify security incidents and performing analysis of security event data to support the response, reporting or escalating where appropriate.
* Designing, developing and supporting automated monitoring processes, using a variety of the latest SIEM (Security Information and Event Management) and network analysis tools, techniques and procedures to detect malicious activity, ensuring continuous improvement through dashboard monitoring or retrospective assessment.
* Collaborating with stakeholders to manage vulnerabilities and undertake remediation; continuously seeking to identify potential service and process improvements leveraging knowledge of industry best practices, good judgment and problem‑solving skills to execute security operations and investigations.
* An employee may be required to carry out other duties within the scope of the grade and within the limits of their skill, competence and training.
Essential skills
* Information or cyber security experience including threat and risk analysis.
* Hands‑on AWS investigation, architectural analysis and security design work – defining the security solutions and ways of working.
* Experience operating in a multi‑disciplinary sprint team as subject matter expert to embed security ways of working.
* Production of high‑quality outputs such as reports, process documentation and templates in a timely manner and in language suitable for the intended audience.
* Ownership of technical monitoring solutions and negotiation of prioritisation with developer leads, DevOps leads and programme management.
* Strong partnership building with peers across an organisation and navigation of the complex landscape of technologies, third‑party suppliers and other teams.
Why work for us…
* A civil service pension with employer contribution rates of at least 28.97%.
* In‑year reward scheme for one‑off or sustained exceptional personal or team achievements.
* Potential for flexible working options that suit your work/life balance, with future opportunity to take a career break.
* 25 days annual leave on appointment, rising with service.
* Eight days public holidays, plus one additional privilege day.
* 26 weeks maternity, adoption or shared parental leave at full pay, followed by 13 weeks statutory pay and a further 13 weeks unpaid, after qualifying service.
* Maternity and adoption support leave (also known as paternity leave) of two weeks full pay, after qualifying service.
* Paid leave for fostering approval processes, support when a child is substantively placed with you plus a foster to adopt policy.
* Support for guardians and kinship carers.
* Corporate membership of ‘Employers for Carers’ providing additional information and advice for carers, plus a ‘Carer’s Passport’ to discuss workplace needs and underpin supportive conversations.
* Time off to deal with emergencies and certain other unplanned special circumstances.
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