As a Security and Estates Lead within the UKTL Team, you’ll play a critical role in safeguarding our people, facilities, and reputation. You’ll lead on physical and personnel security, ensuring our security posture remains proportionate to risk and aligned with government standards, you’ll also be responsible for managing our site and facilities and health and safety.
This is a hands-on role where you’ll design, implement, and oversee security measures across a complex environment, including secure facilities and data centre operations.
You’ll be the go-to expert for all security and estates matters, working closely with leadership and collaborating with cyber security colleagues to deliver a holistic approach to risk management.
Key Responsibilities
* Overall responsibility for all security and estates matters at the UKTL facility.
* Maintain and promote a strong security culture.
* Oversee physical security standards, ensuring compliance with DSIT and accreditation requirements.
* Plan and conduct internal security audits, identifying gaps and recommending improvements.
* Partner with the Cyber Security team to deliver integrated risk management.
* Lead investigations into vulnerabilities or procedural failings and report findings.
* Build strong relationships with internal teams, contractors, and government agencies.
* Develop operational procedures to address security gaps and support compliance.
* Responsible for maintaining all aspects of our secure site, including IT facilities and managing facilities contracts.
* Monitor emerging threats and provide intelligence to inform risk strategies.
* Respond to out-of-hours incidents and perform key holder duties.
* Manage security aspects of data centre facilities, ensuring resilience and continuity of operations.
* The post holder will be responsible for out of hours incident response and key holder duties and therefore must be located no more than 1 hour commute of the Facility
Successful Applicants must be able to commute to the UKTL offices in Birmingham at least twice a week
We strive to offer a great work life balance - if you are looking for full time, part time or flexible options, we will try to make this work where business possible. This will be dependent on the kind of role you do and part of the business you work in.