Principal Cyber Security Risk Manager

£54,857 + additional allowance up to £25,543 (total £80,400)

Multiple locations: Newcastle/Leeds/Oldham/Bristol/Swansea/Nottingham/Birmingham

Hybrid working: 60% attendance per week

Permanent

Overview:

Sellick Partnership have partnered with the Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency to recruit a Principal Cyber Security Risk Manager. This role is integral to ensure that information and security risk associated with a service group are visible and responded to in a collaborative manner. The role holder identifies, understands, and mitigates cyber-related risks, providing corporate risk processes and advice to the Chief Data & Security Officer and Service Owners to help them make informed risk-based decisions. The role sits as part of a wider security team reporting to the Head of Cyber Security.

Benefits:

• Flexible working options encouraging work-life balance.
• Exceptional pension - employer contribution of an average of 27%.
• 25 days holiday, increasing by 1 each year of service, up to 30.
• A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity with a range of staff communities.
• Learning and development tailored to your role.
• Cycle to work, gym membership offers, high street discounts.
• Employee assistance program for health and wellbeing.

Responsibilities:

• Work day-to-day within a service group matrix team as part of CI and/or a project to ensure agility and flexibility of service and products.
• Report to the Head of Cyber Security & Service Owner to provide a risk picture of the service group and develop good practice with the wider Cyber team.
• Guide and develop specialist activities of others, promoting development in applicable skills and sharing best practice widely across DVSA and the wider department.
• Lead and undertake risk management activities against complex scenarios while applying fundamental principles of risk management.
• Execute management responsibilities effectively, ensuring capabilities to achieve successful delivery of business performance.
• Demonstrate leadership by providing influence, direction, and guidance to staff to support the delivery of objectives.
• Work in collaboration with fellow Corporate Senior Leaders (CSL) across all functions for the good of DVSA.
• Lead continual service improvement practices for Data and Cyber Security.

Essential requirements and qualifications:

• Information risk assessment and risk management (expert).
• Applied security capability (practitioner).
• Protective security (expert).
• Threat understanding (practitioner).
• Technical Cloud platform (understanding).
• Awareness of the UK Government’s Secure by Design principles.
• A Chartered Cyber Professional or be willing to work towards becoming Chartered.
• Experience in cloud security across at least one platform of AWS or Azure.

Please apply by Sunday 6 July 2025 to be considered. For a detailed job specification please contact Greg Jones at Sellick Partnership.

This role is part of the Government Digital and Data profession and utilises an enhanced Capability–Based Pay Framework which provides access to a Digital and Data allowance.

Sellick Partnership is proud to be an inclusive and accessible recruitment business and we support applications from candidates of all backgrounds and circumstances.