Lead Monitoring Manager in Croydon

Lead Technical Recruiter (Cyber Security, Data & IT Operations) @ UK Home Office | HR, Recruiting, Hiring

Cyber Security Monitoring at the Home Office is at the front end of protecting a large government department and safeguarding critical digital infrastructure.

Are you a Cyber Security professional, skilled at observing networks and systems to identify and respond to potential threats and cyber-attacks? Can you use detection systems, firewalls, and software to detect and address security issues in real-time, ensuring the safety of cloud infrastructure and data?

In this role, you will:

• Identify new and emerging technologies
• Support the design and implementation of a monitoring roadmap
• Collaborate with stakeholders to manage vulnerabilities

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What will you be doing?

Your main day-to-day responsibilities will be:

• Identifying new and emerging cloud technologies, products, services, methods and techniques, assessing the potential impacts (both threats and opportunities) on business enablers, cost, performance or sustainability. Communicating emerging technologies and their impact.
• Implementation of the monitoring roadmap alongside DEVOPS to enhance monitoring in line with requirements, policies and standards to govern all activities and outputs. Understanding how local protective security measures can be applied to reduce vulnerability exposure.
• Monitoring, triaging and investigating security alerts on AWS protective monitoring platforms to identify security incidents and performing analysis of security event data to support the response, reporting or escalating where appropriate.
• Designing, developing and supporting automated monitoring processes, using a variety of the latest SIEM (Security Information and Event Management) and network analysis tools, techniques and procedures to detect malicious activity, ensure continuous improvement through dashboard monitoring or retrospective assessment.
• Collaborating with stakeholders to manage vulnerabilities and undertake remediation. Continuously seeking to identify potential service and process improvements leveraging your knowledge of industry best practices, good judgment and problem-solving skills to execute security operations and investigations.
• An employee may be required to carry out other duties within the scope of the grade and within the limits of their skill, competence and training.