Job Description
Senior Scientist - Industrial Control System Cyber Security
12 month contract (extension possible)
Newport - 3 days onsite
£45 per hour, inside IR35 (umbrella)
Subject to BPSS check
Accountabilities
This jobholder will undertake cutting-edge digital security research and innovation activities with the ultimate goal of developing solutions to the business' problems for which a solution doesn't currently exist. Furthermore, the jobholder will build and maintain awareness and knowledge of best-practice technology trends and commercially available digital security solutions.
Accountable for activities in each of the following areas:
Coordination:
* Coordinate Cyber Security innovation across the business to maximise alignment. Build and maintain a working network across the business among subject matter peers and stakeholders. Undertake internal & external engagements on behalf of the digital security office.
Collaboration:
* Collaborate in Cyber Security innovation activities with internal peers, to ensure cyber security is considered in joint projects and deliverables.
Consultancy:
* Provide consultancy services on your specialist area of Cyber Security innovation across the business to ensure knowledge transfer and ensure.
Innovation:
* Deliver innovation projects, activity reports and presentations to cost, quality and time constraints. Build and maintain a research network to support the specialist Cyber Security subject.
* Support the development and maintenance of a Cyber Innovation Roadmap for your specialist area to capture future threats, opportunities and potential projects.
Main activities
Coordination:
* Provide significant contributions to the transition of innovation knowledge and technologies into internal business and digital security operations, including training, presentations and reports.
* Participate in a group-wide cyber innovation steering body.
* Attend and contribute to conferences and events (business/academic).
Collaboration:
* Support external digital security innovation agreements, collaborations and partnerships with specialist subject expertise and industrial/context-of-use guidance.
* Provide expert services (consultancy) to the internal business on the specialist cyber subject, and as required.
Consultancy:
* Contribute knowledge and advice on cyber aspects of your specialist topic to internal peers across the business and digital security operations.
* Manage onboarding and offboarding from projects for optimal use of time and resources.
Innovation:
* Undertake state of the art research projects into digital security topics of interest in support of the business, in partnership with the other members of the Cyber Security Innovation team.
* Maintain awareness of marketed solutions, innovation and gaps, then address gaps by developing and internally marketing prototype solutions.
* Collaborate with academic partners on research, and provide industrial steering.
* Contribute to academic funding bids, internally and with academic contacts.
* Publish technical reports, white papers, patents, academic articles, etc.
Outputs
* Prototype solutions, software, configurations, shared expertise.
* Horizon scans, market studies, technical reports.
* Internal & external proposals
Profile
We are looking for a friendly, enthusiastic, well organised and self-motivated colleague with a personal drive to analyse, innovate and create. The eventual role holder will substantially align with the following criteria (in particular with the "Must Haves").
Academic:
Must Have:
* Bachelors degree in Comp Sci, Comms & Networking, Cyber or similar.
* Recent PhD or Masters relevant to _ICS Cyber Security_.
Advantage:
* Professional training/certifications and experience in Cyber Security.
Experience:
Must Have:
* Industrial Control Security
* Experience of research, innovation and/or solution development.
Advantage:
* Experience of managing digital security and/or R&I projects.
* Cyber industry publication (blogs, SANS articles etc).
* Network Security, Cloud Security.
Research Skills:
Must Have:
* Excellent report writing and presentation skills.
* Excellent spoken and written English.
Advantage:
* Academic publication track record.
* Recent Cyber Security research publications.
* Managing NDAs, IPR, Patent Applications.
* Spoken & written French/German.
Technical skills:
Advantage:
* Programming, esp. Python.
* Design & configuration of IP Networks including virtualised infrastructure.
* Experience configuring network Firewalls, IDS, IPS, Honeypots etc.
* Deep insight into network cyber attacks and their mitigation.
* Basic software development/Scripting/web apps, eg Python, Rust.
* Certifications such as Cisco R&S/CCNA/CCNA-S
* Data Analytics/AI/ML applied to Network Security (tools & techniques).