Cyber Operations' purpose is to support safe care and build public trust by building NHS England's cyber resilience and enabling the wider health system to be cyber resilient.
The Cyber Operations sub-directorate consists of four operational areas:
Cyber Security Operations Unit (CSOU & SIO)
Cyber Delivery Unit (CDU)
Cyber Improvement Programme
Chief Information Security Office Function (CISO)
This role is within the Cyber Security Threat Intelligence team within NHS England National CSOC, part of CSOU.
The CSOU function provides centralised monitoring and response across NHSE, and the system, which consists of Threat Operations, Protective Monitoring, Incident Management & response and DevOps.
The Threat Intelligence function is comprised of four primary functions:
Performing intelligence collection, aggregation, analysis and contextualisation of healthcare and security information to produce actionable cyber threat intelligence
Performing high-level risk assessments of current and emerging threats to the health & social care estate
Producing stakeholder-specific intelligence reporting for internal and external stakeholders
Providing specialist Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI) support during high complexity incident
The Senior Security Analyst is responsible for collecting, analysing and disseminating cyber threat intelligence to identify threats to the systems, infrastructures, and resources critical to NHS England and across Health & Care.
The Senior Security Analyst (Threat Intelligence) will perform a supervisory role within the Threat Intelligence team as well as acting as a technical subject matter expert for other teams and stakeholders across Cyber Operations.
Responsibilities include:
Generating Strategic and Technical Threat Intelligence products for CSOC stakeholders.
Supervising a team of threat intelligence analysts as well as reporting and raising issues to senior leadership
Act as a quality and audit layer for written Threat Intelligence products
Making Cyber Threat Intelligence decisions within Incident Response scenarios and leading in-depth cyber threat intelligence investigations
Act as the escalation tier for cyber threat intelligence tasks within Cyber Security tooling including EDR and SIEM tooling
Interrogate threat intelligence and internal security tooling to identify items of interest and potential cyber threats.
Proactive research and assessment of Tactics. Techniques and Procedures (TTPs) of cyber threat groups
Development of analytical procedures to meet changing requirements and team development, as well as adapting to a rapidly changing security environment
Delivery of technical capability development, identification, and implementation of automation use cases within cyber threat intelligence and Security Operations
Supporting the ongoing development and continuous improvement of the CSOC's Cyber Threat Intelligence function in line with industry best practice
Our staff bring expertise across clinical, operational, commissioning, technology, data science, cyber security, software engineering, education, and commercial specialisms — enabling us to design and deliver high-quality NHS services.
We lead the NHS in England by:
Enabling local systems and providers to improve the health of their people and patients and reduce health inequalities
Making the NHS a great place to work, where people can develop and make a difference
Working collaboratively to ensure our healthcare workforce has the right knowledge, skills, values and behaviours to deliver accessible, compassionate care
Optimising the use of digital technology, research, and innovation
Delivering value for money
Earlier this year, the Government announced that NHS England will gradually merge with the Department of Health and Social Care, to create a smaller, more strategic centre that reduces duplication and waste.
If successful at interview, we will initiate an Inter Authority Transfer (IAT) via the Electronic Staff Record (ESR). This retrieves key data from your current or previous NHS employer to support onboarding, including competency status, Continuous Service Dates (CSD), and annual leave entitlement. You may opt out at any stage of the process.
Colleagues with a contractual office base are expected to spend, on average, at least 40% of their time working in-person.
Staff recruited from outside the NHS will usually be appointed at the bottom of the pay band.
Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification for more information about the role and responsibilities.
Please ensure your supporting statement includes demonstratable evidence and specific examples on how you meet the criteria for each of the key skills specified. This will be used in both the shortlisting and interview processes
Important: Please be aware there are residency requirements you need to meet:
All NHS England Cyber Security personnel must hold Security Clearance level as a minimum. To meet National Security Vetting requirements, SC clearances require 5 years continuous UK residency. In certain cases, this can be reduced to three years continuous UK residency, with additional overseas checks for the previous two years. Candidates who were posted abroad for service with HM Government, Armed Forces or within a UK government role - will still be considered.
Please make sure you meet these requirements before applying for this role. You don't need to have SC already, however, failure to achieve the requirements for SC after offer will result in the job offer being withdrawn. For further advice please check
Please be aware that should you be successful in this position, you will be hired to the job title of Senior Security Analyst and this job title is advertised to attract the right skills needed for the role.
The post of Senior Security Analyst has been awarded a Recruitment and Retention Premia (RRP) in response to current labour market conditions. In recognition of this, the role attracts an additional monthly RRP payment equal to 20% per annum.
Please be aware that RRP is non-contractual and subject to review
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