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Job overview
NHS England's Cyber Operations team is at the forefront of safeguarding critical national healthcare services and ensuring patient safety through robust cyber resilience. The Cyber Security Lead role is a key part of the Security Consulting Team, operating within the Chief Information Security Office (CISO) function. This team provides specialist consultancy across NHS England, ensuring national services and Critical National Infrastructure are secure by design.
You will play a pivotal role in developing and implementing cyber-resilient architectures, providing expert advice and ensuring systems meet stringent security standards. Acting as a trusted advisor to project teams, you will embed secure practices into systems before they become live services, safeguarding data and operations across the NHS.
This role offers unparalleled opportunities to address challenges of national scale, contribute to improving healthcare outcomes, and enhance NHS cyber resilience. As part of a supportive and innovative environment, you will benefit from access to professional development, collaborative initiatives, and impactful work that directly supports patient care.
Main duties of the job
As a Cyber Security Lead, your responsibilities include:
* Provide expert consultancy and guidance to ensure secure system design, governance, and compliance with frameworks like NIST Special Special Publications, ISO 27001/2/3, and NCSC guidelines.
* Set and embed security standards and patterns, aligned with best practices, to strengthen NHS England's cyber resilience.
* Lead threat modelling, security assessments, and risk mitigation efforts, delivering actionable advice to address identified vulnerabilities.
* Collaborate with stakeholders and teams to address challenges via DevSecOps practices, security reviews, and comprehensive risk analysis.
* Drive the development and implementation of NHS England's integrated cyber security strategy, defining objectives and addressing technical controls, risks, and issues.
* Act as a trusted advisor and subject matter expert, representing Cyber Operations at governance forums and during project lifecycles.
* Scope and review security testing reports, vulnerability assessments, and compliance audits to ensure robust application and endpoint security.
* Provide architecture modelling expertise to design and implement resilient, secure systems and services across NHS England.
* Support systems and services throughout their lifecycle, ensuring secure practices are maintained to minimise risks.
Person specification
* Consulting - Extensive knowledge of techniques, roles, and responsibilities in providing technical or business guidance to internal and external clients; and the ability to apply this knowledge appropriately to diverse situations.
* Information Assurance - Specialist knowledge of and the ability to protect information and systems while ensuring confidentiality, integrity and availability.
* Information Security Architecture - Detailed knowledge of the tools and techniques used for creating software, hardware, networking and application infrastructure; ability to meet information security objectives while using these.
* Application Security - Specialist knowledge of the tools and processes for maintaining application security; ability to design and implement security programs to prevent data loss and access intrusion from web and mobile applications.
Qualifications
* Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP)
Our commitments to you
We are passionate about creating an inclusive workplace that promotes and values diversity. We know that different ideas, perspectives and backgrounds create a stronger and more creative work environment that delivers better patient outcomes. We strive to ensure our people feel trusted, valued and empowered.
We welcome applications from disabled candidates. If you meet all the essential criteria, you will be guaranteed an interview.
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