Cyber Security Engineer - ££ - Hybrid in Manchester

Join Police Digital Service as NMC Cyber Security Engineer. Salary starting at £55,000 per annum.

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.

The National Management Centre (NMC) is part of Police Digital Services and provides visibility and control of information risks for policing. It supports the 24x7x365 nature of police operations, providing a threat detection and response capability for digital services before, during and after cyber-attacks, enabling stakeholders to understand and proactively manage risk across the technology estate at both the national and force level.

Key Responsibilities:

• Creating, configuring, and maintaining the technology platforms and tooling that support security operations within the NMC.
• Ensuring that systems are configured and available to meet NMC objectives.
• Providing support to police forces for the onboarding and maintenance of system log sources.
• Configuring and maintaining the NMC central Microsoft Azure, Lighthouse and Sentinel platform.
• Developing, maintaining, and deploying detection rules and other SIEM content.
• Providing support to forces for the configuration of Sentinel and log sources.
• Testing and implementing new Sentinel connectors.
• Working with wider NMC teams, contributing to Continual Service Improvement and innovations.
• Working with the PDS design team and wider NMC operational teams to create, test and implement new tools and technologies.
• Leveraging Microsoft support for technical assistance and information regarding roadmap features.

Experience Required:

• Experience of log source configuration and parsing, as part of a SIEM implementation, including experience of data normalisation using RegEx.
• Practical experience in the creation, testing, implementation, and support of custom tooling to support Security Operations.
• Practical experience in software development and scripting, preferably PowerShell and Python.
• Initiative and the ability to produce quality work without close supervision.
• Attention to detail and genuine passion for maintaining high quality software configuration.
• Broad cyber security awareness and practical experience.

Benefits:

• 28 days' annual leave plus bank holidays, rising to 30 days after 5 years of service. Holiday Purchase also available.
• Flexible working hours - core hours of 8 to 6, Monday to Friday (37hr week).
• Well-being support through an EAP offering welfare benefits and retail discounts.
• Excellent pension scheme and life assurance cover.
• Remote GP, mental health and physiotherapy appointments via video consultation.
• Enhanced maternity and paternity pay along with a flexible return to work.
• One paid day off per year for volunteering.

We particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) candidates and people with disabilities.

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.