NMC Senior Cyber Threat Hunter (Wigan/Hybrid)

Join Police Digital Service as NMC Senior Cyber Threat Hunter - Hybrid/Wigan - starting salary £65,000pa.

About Police Digital Service and NMC

At PDS, we empower UK policing to stay ahead of evolving threats in a rapidly changing digital landscape. As the trusted technology partner for law enforcement, we deliver cutting‑edge services and strategic guidance to help forces maximize their tech investments, improve public safety, and ensure value for money. The National Management Centre (NMC) is a core part of Police Digital Service (PDS), providing 24/7/365 cyber threat detection, response, and risk management capabilities across UK policing. We help forces proactively understand and mitigate cyber risks at both national and local levels.

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.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and conduct advanced threat hunting activities across national policing infrastructure, identifying indicators of compromise (IOCs), tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs), and emerging threat patterns.
• Profile cyber adversaries by analyzing behavioral patterns, infrastructure, and motivations to inform strategic and tactical defense measures.
• Collaborate with national partners including NCSC and NCA, to share your findings and coordinate responses.
• Produce high-quality, actionable reports and briefings for a range of stakeholders, including technical teams, senior police leadership, and government departments.
• Correlate and disseminate intelligence from multiple sources (OSINT, SIGINT, internal telemetry, etc.) to build a comprehensive threat picture and drive proactive defense.
• Support and lead pre-incident planning, threat modelling, and attack surface reduction initiatives.
• Act as a senior point of contact and taking a lead role during live incidents, providing both written and verbal updates during a managed cyber incident to senior Policing stakeholders.
• Mentor and develop NMC colleagues, fostering a culture of continuous learning and analytical excellence.
• Step into a leadership role during the manager’s absence, overseeing team operations, prioritizing workloads, and ensuring service continuity.
• Drive innovation in threat hunting practices, evaluating new tools, techniques, and methodologies to enhance capability.
• Engage with internal teams (Detect and Respond, Malware Analysis, Vulnerability Management, Threat Hunting) to ensure a threat hunting mentality is integrated across all cyber defense functions.
• Translate complex threat intelligence into clear, concise insights tailored to operational, strategic, and executive audiences.
• Contribute to the development of national cyber resilience strategies and support cross-force collaboration on threat hunting findings and practice.
• Present at various senior boards and forums (internal and external) on the benefits of establishing a healthy cyber security posture.

What you need to succeed in the role

• Deep understanding of adversarial tactics and techniques as well as threat actor lifecycles.
• Ability to operate in high‑pressured environments with proven experience of taking a technical lead role in support of the response to cyber incidents.
• Strong experience hunting and tracking targeted threats.
• Strong grasp of threat modelling and risk assessment frameworks.
• Skilled in OSINT collection and analysis.
• Demonstrated leadership in a threat hunting team, including mentoring and service development.
• Excellent communication skills – able to translate complex threats into clear insights.
• Ability to work independently and proactively as well as the ability to manage stakeholder relationships effectively.
• Experienced in managing and coordinating as a lead within a team.
• Excellent inter‑personal skills and a collaborative mindset.
• Prepared to be flexible to meet the demands during a cyber incident.
• Eligible for SC and NPPV3 clearance.
• Relevant accreditations in Cyber Threat Hunting – e.g., DFIR, OSINT, CREST.
• Understanding of UK policing cyber environment and its threat landscape.
• Proven experience of mentoring/leading a team.

Diversity, equity and inclusion

We are committed to equal opportunities for all and will not discriminate on any grounds. We encourage applications from people from the widest possible span of experience. All applicants will be considered without attention to age, ethnicity, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, parental status, nationality, neurodiversity or disability status.

Working Arrangements

At the NMC, you will benefit from hybrid working, getting the advantages of both face‑to‑face team engagement and home working. NMC employees have the opportunity to work in our modern office environment for in‑person collaboration; however you will also get the opportunity to work from home 2 days a week. All applicants must be eligible to undergo NPPV3 (Non Police Personnel Vetting Level 3) and SC vetting clearances. Successful applicants will require NPPV3 clearance to have been cleared before starting with PDS.

Please note, we may choose to close the advert early if we receive a high volume of applications for this role so please endeavour to complete your application as soon as possible.