Head of Security Operations - Cardiff, United Kingdom - Companies House

Companies House
Companies House
Verified Company
Cardiff, United Kingdom

4 weeks ago

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- £51,000 - £70,649
  • The salary range is £51,000 £60,649. The maximum includes a nonpensionable allowance of up to £10,000. The salary and allowance awarded will be based on an assessment of your skills and experience as demonstrated at interview.
  • A Civil Service Pension with an average employer contribution of 27%
    Job grade:


  • Grade 7

  • DDaT Principal
    Contract type:
  • Permanent
    Business area:
  • CH
  • Digital
Services
Type of role:
  • Digital
  • Information Technology
  • Security
    Working pattern:
  • Flexible working, Fulltime, Homeworking
    Number of jobs available:
  • 1Contents
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    • Cardiff, Wales, CF14 3UZAbout the job

    Job summary:


    We are looking for an enthusiastic Head of Cyber Security Operations, with great leadership, strong technical skills and a drive to improve the security of our services.

    You will be responsible for the leadership and strategy of Companies House's Cyber Security Operations, whilst being hands-on enough to directly work on the analysis and remediation of incidents yourself.

    You will be user and service focused ensuring that value is delivered through the ongoing protection of delivery pipelines, services and our end-user IT estate.

    You will be responsible for introducing a strategy for the SecOps Profession and ensuring smooth integration of this profession into broader Companies House Service model.

    Companies House leads the way in providing an open and transparent company register.

    Our register is searched billions of times a year and estimated that it will be worth over £10 billion to the UK economy, after our Transformation, supporting millions of business decisions every day.

    Companies House strategy 2020 to 2025.


    Our transformation will create a markedly higher security need and the formation of this role is one of the ways we are preparing for this change.

    Come and help us as we embark on a redesign of our digital services and culture.

    Find out more about the work we do. Find out more about the services you will be responsible for supporting.


    We are currently using a hybrid approach to the way we work. The majority of our digital teams are based in our Cardiff head office.

    At Companies House, hybrid working is about achieving an effective balance between working in the office and working from other appropriate locations. Our approach to hybrid working provides opportunities for you to be adaptable in the way you work so that you can achieve a healthy balance between your work and home life. We currently expect those on hybrid contracts to attend the Cardiff office a minimum of one day a week but the exact degree of choice you have will depend on your role and your day-to-day work activities and should be agreed through discussions with your line manager.

    Job description:


    • You will manage internal SOC Analysts and the external Cyber Security partner that provides augmented SOC resource.
    • You will be responsible for maintaining and supporting the ongoing operational cyber security of our organisation's internal and external facing systems. with responsibility for developing our capability in SecOps, shaping the right talent and identifying skills gaps within both the team and the supplier's capabilities.
    • Implement opportunities to optimise processes; reducing 'noise' and best identifying and prioritising alerts. Lead teams of experts in resolving security incidents.
    • Work with IT Services, evaluating and establishing requirements for the implementation of changes by defining Operational Security standards.
    • You will lead the identification, investigation and resolution of security incidents. Taking accountability of issues that occur and proactively searching for potential solutions ensuring the right actions are taken to investigate, resolve and anticipate future problems.
    • You will coordinate your teams to investigate problems, implement solutions and take preventive measures and form part of an oncall rota for service continuity.
    • Through the prevention of disruption arising from Cyber Security incidents, support Operational IT colleagues in our collective target of ensuring Operational Continuity to agreed service levels (currently 99.90% availability).
    • Leadership and collaborative working using an inclusive approach to delivery of objectives.
    • Rapid delivery of user centric services whilst focussing on security.
    • Identifying, testing and facilitating the secure adoption of emerging technologies.
    • Developing the vision, principles and strategy for SecOps practices across the organisation.
    • Cost Centre management with a substantial budget that will be required to be delivered within 1% tolerance.
    This is an exciting opportunity, protecting our services and by extension, our users. By helping us to shape our services, you'll have the opportunity to be at the forefront o
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