Cyber Specialist

Join Police Digital Service as a Cyber Specialist. Salary starting at £75,000 per annum. The Cyber Specialist is a key role in the Cyber Services Team, ensuring secure solutions are delivered into National Policing. The Cyber Specialist will provide security consultancy and architectural review to UK Forces and National Policing Programmes, proposing secure solutions and identifying information risk born out of desired change.

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. Our vision is to support UK policing to keep people safe, get more from technology investments and make better use of public money, and we're always on the lookout for great talent to help us achieve this.

Our Values are:

• We value People
• We do the right thing
• We are innovative
• We are one Team
• We are proud and passionate

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.

Key Responsibilities:

• Support the Cyber Delivery Manager, providing specialist advice, reporting and assurance to principal stakeholders within PDS, Policing and the Home Office.
• Support implementation of the PDS Cyber Services (CS) strategy, roadmaps and business plans, bids and business cases to ensure that PDS, PDS CS, and Police Forces achieve their short, medium and long-term objectives.
• Monitor security, technological, social and scientific trends that could influence the National Policing policy and consulting approach and provision of Cyber services.
• Ensure that outcomes and benefits are maximised from all people, process and technology investments - especially those that facilitate or enable improvements in policing outcomes - as part of the PDS role in leading delivery for the National Digital Policing Strategy 2020-30.
• Advise on necessary technical and procedural governance, control systems, standards and procedures to ensure that decision making for policy and consultancy activities meet business objectives and comply with all legal, regulatory and policy standards, requirements and/or directives, at local and national levels.
• Forge strong relationships with National Policing Programme personnel and key PDS stakeholders across Policing, enabling effective implementation of all cyber specialist activities in support of their corporate objectives.
• Provide technical and security input and recommendations to Design Authorities and Information Security and Risk groups in reviewing and reporting risks to provide clear visibility of local and national risk exposure to policing.

What you need to succeed in the role:

Essential:

• A minimum of 3 years of proven IT/Information security and risk consulting experience in organisations with complex security and compliance requirements.
• Experience of ICT programme delivery consulting approaches and security solution architecture principles, gained through direct experience of solutions delivery in similar size organisations.
• Experience in defining and/or implementing security controls across multiple layers of the IT architecture stack.
• Experience in the production of, or input to, design documentation (HLDs, LLDs, blueprints etc.), supporting cloud architecture design, implementation, and operations.
• Strong knowledge and ability to demonstrate the use of the NIST Cyber Security Framework, mapping and translating NIST Cyber Security Controls to other frameworks such as ISO27001 and CIS Top 20 controls.

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: This is a remote role. 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.