Cyber Security Advisor (SIEM Engineering) in London

The purpose of Cyber Operations is to support safe care and build public trust by enhancing NHS England's cyber resilience and enabling the wider health system to be cyber resilient, supporting the Transformation Directorate's aim of delivering the best care and outcomes for the NHS.

The Cyber Operations sub-directorate consists of four operational areas:

• Cyber Security Operations Unit (CSOU & SIO)
• Cyber Delivery Unit (CDU)
• Cyber Improvement Programme
• Chief Information Security Office Function (CISO)

This role is in the Cyber Security Operations Centre (CSOC), which is part of CSOU and provides centralised security monitoring across both NHS England and the wider health and care system in England. The CSOC teams work closely together to improve NHS cyber resilience and enable a "Defend as one" strategy across the health and care system.

The Security Advisor SIEM Engineering provides new and enhanced SIEM (Security Information and Event Management) system and tooling capability for the CSOC, including:

• Deploying feeds from data sources
• Building cyber detection capability
• Improving the automation of security monitoring
• Managing the SIEM environment

Main duties of the job include:

• Deploying feeds from data sources into NHS England's SIEM system and ensuring compliance with the SIEM's data modelling.
• Maintaining the SIEM data feed infrastructure to ensure timely delivery of security logs into the SIEM without loss of data fidelity.
• Managing the technical relationship with services and customers during the deployment and updating of data feeds into the SIEM.
• Managing and developing the SIEM configuration and its interfacing with other SOC tooling.
• Working closely with the Cyber Monitoring teams to build cyber detection capability and improve the automation of security monitoring.
• Identifying and delivering continuous improvements to enrich, refine and optimise SIEM capabilities.
• Investigating, troubleshooting and resolving CSOC tooling service incidents.
• Collaborating and conducting knowledge transfer with architects, engineers and subject matter experts.
• Implementing organisational standards for design, development, testing, deployment, maintenance and documentation.
• Providing clear and accurate SIEM status reporting for technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Mentoring and coaching junior staff within the Cyber Security Operations Centre.

Important: Please be aware there are residency requirements you need to meet:

• All NHS England Cyber Security personnel must hold Security Clearance level as a minimum. To meet National Security Vetting requirements, SC clearances require 5 years continuous UK residency.
• In certain cases, this can be reduced to three years continuous UK residency, with additional overseas checks for the previous two years.

Colleagues with a contractual office base are expected to spend, on average, at least 40% of their time working in our offices. Staff recruited from outside the NHS will usually be appointed at the bottom of the pay band. We cannot offer visa sponsorship for any vacancies.

Person Specification:

• Knowledge: Demonstrable knowledge of technologies and technology-based solutions dealing with information security issues; ability to apply these in protecting information security across the organisation.
• Qualifications: Post-graduate level degree in Cyber Security or relevant subject, or equivalent level of experience.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.