Senior Cyber Security Professional

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Security Consultancy Services (SCS) are an integral part of HMRC Security. We are responsible for ensuring everyone has capability to fulfil their security responsibilities and develop individual capability to detect, prevent and respond to security risks and threats.

Our vision is to be recognised as a centre of expertise, working collaboratively across government to deliver holistic, customer centric cyber security services and consultancy support that continually evolves to emerging technologies and the ever-changing threat and risk landscape to support HMRC/HMG business needs.

This is an exciting time to be part of our active and encouraging cyber security community, working within HMRC and across HMG.

As a Senior Cyber Security Professional, you will work in a multidisciplinary team in Security Consultancy Services (SCS), you’ll be part of our active and encouraging cyber security community, within HMRC and across government.

An ideal candidate will work collaboratively with senior business and technical partners, to deliver appropriate risk based technical security advice and guidance, to enable the secure delivery of HMRC solutions and services.

You will work collaboratively with a further range of senior business & technical stakeholders, to deliver appropriate risk-based technical security advice and guidance, to enable the secure delivery of HMRC solutions and services. You will be a security champion, driving Secure by Design across HMRC.

In addition, you may be encouraged to undertake line management responsibilities. Broadly, we would expect the successful candidate to align with the Government Security Professional Framework.

Responsibilities:

• Support and develop the technical security expertise and capability/services of the SCS team and drive learning and development strategy.
• You may be expected to undertake task management or line management responsibilities and will provide peer reviews and coaching and mentoring as appropriate.
• Support on the delivery of cyber services from our service catalogue, while supporting the ‘Secure by Design’ security lifecycle.
• Escalate problems and issues to ensure they are addressed at the right level.
• Research, identify, validate, and embrace new technologies and methodologies.
• Provide peer reviews and coaching and mentoring as appropriate.

Essential criteria:

• Extensive experience as a technical cyber security professional, operating at a senior level, with proven ability to deliver technical security in high profile programmes, be accountable for decisions and to manage difficult customers and challenging conversations.
• Managing relationships with senior representatives, effective team engagement and strong leadership.
• Proven professional experience of how technical security is applied in real life, large scale complex environments.
• Ability to demonstrate a deep knowledge of security and privacy risks and threats along with a solid grasp of key technical considerations in relation to confidentiality, integrity, availability and non-repudiation and privacy.
• Excellent communication skills to technical, business and non-technical audiences at all levels, presenting with excellent written and verbal skills.
• Knowledge of leading standards such as NIST, CAF, Secure by Design and topics such as Security Controls, Risk Management and “Zero Trust” Architecture.
• Multiple security domains and disciplines including Cyber, Physical, Personnel, Process, Policy, Privacy, Law & GDPR.
• Strong working knowledge of Cloud Security & Risk applied to all service models.
• Proven successful delivery of security aspects of major projects and demonstrable professional credibility and authority having been within a key security role working on large projects.

Desirable criteria:

• Good working knowledge of Cryptography including symmetric & asymmetric encryption systems, infrastructure, risks, weaknesses and mitigations.
• Working knowledge of penetration testing skills and requirements.
• Experience ensuring effective governance controls in a complex business environment and maintaining supplier/customer relationship management.

Benefits:

Alongside your salary of £58,541, HM Revenue and Customs contributes £16,959 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.

HMRC operates both Flexible and Hybrid Working policies, allowing you to balance your work and personal commitments. We welcome applications from those who need to work a more flexible arrangement and will agree to requests where possible, considering our operational and customer service needs.

We offer a generous leave allowance, starting at 25 days and increasing by a day for every year of qualifying service up to a maximum of 30 days.

• Pension - We make contributions to our colleagues’ Alpha pension equal to at least 28.97% of their salary.
• Family friendly policies.
• Personal support.
• Coaching and development.