Senior Cyber Specialist x2 Full Time

Police ICT

Join Police Digital Service as Senior Cyber Specialist x2 – Salary starting at £75,000

About Police Digital Service

To protect people from harm in our rapidly changing world, police services must not only keep up with technology and business changes but develop capabilities and ways of working that will enable them to adapt to and deal with the complexity of modern criminality.

Police Digital Service strives to be the go-to partner for technology developments and programmes across UK policing. Our team provides technical advice and delivers services to help policing and law enforcement organisations across the UK prioritise and focus on technology efforts.

Key Responsibilities

• Support the Cyber Delivery Manager, providing co-ordination and oversight of Cyber Specialists’ engagement across project portfolios
• Support implementation of the PDS Cyber Services (CS) strategy, roadmaps, business plans, bids and business cases
• Perform review and Quality Assurance of project deliverables across portfolios
• Advise on necessary technical and procedural governance, control systems, standards and procedures
• Support the Cyber Delivery Manager and Head of Cyber Delivery with demand forecasts, capacity planning and time recording
• Forge strong relationships with National Policing Programme personnel and key stakeholders across Policing
• Contribute towards the development and optimisation of the Cyber Delivery team’s Secure by Design Framework
• Provide security advice, secure solutions and risk identification and quantification for National Policing projects and programmes
• Monitor security, technological, social and scientific trends that could influence the National Policing policy
• Develop, document and maintain information security and risk policies, standards and guidelines for use by National Policing
• Input into the overall National Policing Target Architecture from a security perspective

What you need to succeed in the role

Skills & Knowledge

• Degree in a technology discipline or significant relevant experience
• Industry recognised certifications (e.g. CISSP, CCSP, SABSA, TOGAF, NCSC Certified Cyber Professional (CCP) SIRA, IA Architect, CRISC)
• Relevant knowledge and experience in one or more of the following areas: security architecture, cloud security, Security Operations, Infrastructure Security, Application Security or DevSecOps
• Knowledge of ICT programme delivery consulting approaches and security solution architecture principles
• Good knowledge of Digital Policing Strategy and understanding of current technologies and cyber challenges relevant to the policing sector
• Strong stakeholder management, engagement and influencing skills
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Commercially and technically astute problem solver
• Ability to present to large and small groups, including non-technical audiences
• Good understanding of privacy requirements (including GDPR and DPA 2018)

Experience

• Experience in IT/Information security and risk consulting experience in large organisations
• Experience in defining and/or implementing security controls across multiple layers of the IT architecture stack
• Experience of workload and task management, including delegation and co-ordination of tasks across a team
• Experience in estimating, scheduling and planning of activities, including input to project plans.
• Experience in authoring management reports and briefing papers, and presenting back to management
• Experience in the production of/input to design documentation (HLDs, LLDs, blueprints etc.), supporting cloud architecture design, implementation, and operations
• Knowledge and experience of designing and assessing systems against the NIST Cyber Security Framework and/or ISO27001
• Track record of developing strong working relationships with numerous stakeholders

Why Join us?

• Balance is important and we want you to take time off to recharge – we offer 28 days’ annual leave plus bank holidays, rising to 30 days after 5 years of service. Holiday Purchase also available
• Flexible working hours – We trust you to do your job and we appreciate that life doesn’t always fit around a 9 to 5 workday. We operate core hours of 10 to 4, Monday to Friday (37hr week)
• We care about your well-being – we have an EAP that offers not just welfare benefits but also retail discounts
• Plan for the future – we offer an excellent pension scheme and life assurance cover
• Put your mind at rest regarding your health – offering remote GP, mental health and physiotherapy appointments via video consultation
• Family – Enhanced maternity and paternity pay along with a flexible return to work
• Community – one paid day off per year for volunteering

You can find out more here:Benefits – Police Digital Service (pds.police.uk)

Diversity, equity and inclusion

We are committed to equal opportunity for all and will not discriminate on any grounds. We encourage applications from people from the widest possible span of experience. We particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) candidates and people with disabilities.

Statement

We acknowledge that statistically women are less likely to apply for a job unless they meet all the criteria. We would like to encourage you to apply if you feel you might be the right person for this role. If you have any questions regarding the role itself, please email us at

Please also note that flexible working arrangement such as part time hours, compressed hours or job share would be considered for this role.

Working Arrangements

This is a remote role.

We may close the advert early if we receive a high volume of applications.