**Job Title:** Lead Cyber Security Analyst**Location:**Liverpool/Newport/Norwich/Birmingham**Key Responsibilities*** Leading on the wider implementation of a monitoring strategy, ensuring roadmaps are achieved as expected, ensuring requirements, policies and standards to govern all activities and outputs are met* Lead monitoring, triaging, and investigation of security alerts on Azure and AWS platforms to identify security incidents* Review high-priority or high-complexity analysis of security event data to manage security incident response, making key decisions on reporting or escalations for monitoring* Lead the cyber security team in the design, development and enablement of automated monitoring processes, advising on the latest SIEM (Security Information and Event Management) and network analysis tools, techniques and procedures to detect malicious activity, while communicating directly with leadership on the progress and status of monitoring* coordinate the triage and remediation of identified threats using a risk-based approach, working closely with service teams and developers to ensure that appropriate mitigation measures are implemented* work closely with other teams within the Directorate and Information Security to proactively reduce cyber security threats and vulnerabilities* produce regular reporting which delivers insights on security monitoring activities and the impact on cyber security risk* establish a detailed understanding of our data security and architectures enabling the delivery of consistent security advice* define requirements for improving and expanding our security tooling* develop and update internal plans, processes, and knowledge base articles* support wider Cyber Defence activities* line manage, act as an escalation point for, and provide coaching and mentoring to Security analysts**Essential Criteria (To be assessed at application):*** A track record in cyber security leadership, strategy development and planning in large and complex organisations, with demonstrable technical security knowledge of modern security concepts, principles and technologies for Azure, AWS, and SaaS.* Expert knowledge of typical threats and attack vectors with appropriate monitoring and remediation strategies.* experience using a variety of sources of information to identify, analyse and report on relevant threats and vulnerabilities.* Developed problem solving skills including addressing complex technical security and process challenges that ensure delivery at pace to an appropriate risk appetite.* Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to effectively communicate complex security concepts to non-technical stakeholders, influence stakeholders and create easy to consume articles such as blogs, policies and presentations.**Desirable*** Experience deploying, configuring and using vulnerability assessment (such as Tenable and the NCSC’s Active Cyber Defence Toolkit) and Attack Surface Management toolsIn the event of a strong pool of candidates, desirable will be used as a second sift**Success profiles (To be assessed at interview):****Behaviours:*** Delivering at Pace* Leadership* Making Effective Decisions* Changing and Improving****Technical:***** understanding of security event analysis and remediation specific to AWS Cloud environments and workloads.(A link to the Civil Service Success Profiles Framework is provided below)The sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants.If you are successful in this role, the job title would be SecOps Principal.**What we will offer you, here are some of the benefits you can expect:*** Competitive salary* Generous pension scheme* A discretionary non-contractual performance related bonus* Working remotely in addition to working in advertised office location* Flexi time scheme (available for B1-B6)* Minimum 25 days annual leave to a maximum service related 30 days excluding bank***Explore fully how we will* *your work.***At CCS, we actively support, promote and celebrate our differences for the benefit of our employees, suppliers and customers. CCS is proud to be an equal opportunities employer. CCS believes that diversity and inclusion is critical to our success and we seek to recruit, develop and retain the most talented people. We want to make our recruitment process accessible to everyone, so if there is any way that we can support you, please contact recruitment@crowncommercial.gov.uk**Working flexibly, delivering outcomes**CCS is a flexible business with a smarter working model where our colleagues benefit from a mix of home and office working. Successful candidates are expected to work from one of the office locations listed. Our current office attendance approach requires a minimum of 26 days per quarter (approx 2 days per week, which may be subject to change) in CCS office locations or off site meetings with suppliers, customers, partners, networking / industry events. This is pro rata for those who work part time. Our smarter working principles mean that our people have the advantage of both office and offsite based collaboration and learning, as well as working from home. This way of working allows us to honour our commitment to being a responsible business, offer flexibility and better work life balance as well as ensuring we deliver our business with confidence and in accordance with our CCS values.**Selection Process**Candidates who are successful at sift will be contacted as soon as possible following the closing date and advised of the interview process in more detail. The sift and interview times and dates to be W/C 10th Nov(Subject to change)***To find out more about our recruitment process please click***Please note: Applicants can make use of artificial intelligence but the information presented at application must be factual.A reserve list may be held for up to 12 months, which the Civil Service may use to fill future suitably similar vacancies across government for candidates who are considered appointable following interview. Should you be placed on a reserve list and want to be removed please contact recruitment@crowncommercial.gov.uk.**Complaints procedure:**Our recruitment processes are underpinned by the principle of selection for appointment on merit on the basis of fair and open competition as outlined in the Civil Service Commissioners’ Recruitment Principles details of which can be found atIf you feel your application has not been treated in accordance with the Recruitment Principles, and you wish to make a complaint, you should contact recruitment@crowncommercial.gov.uk in the first instance.If you remain unsatisfied with the response you receive you can then contact the Civil Service Commission at info@csc.gov.ukCrown Commercial Service (CCS) is the largest public procurement organisation in the UK. With over 800 staff, we help thousands of public and third sector buyers in the UK with billions of pounds of spending each year. We have a wide range of commercial agreements to help our customers buy what they need, when they need it - saving time and money.
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