Are you ready to take on work of national importance, facing the challenge of complex threats you won't find in any other organisation?
The Senior Cyber Incident Manager manages the response to, and investigation of, security events or incidents. Incident Management colleagues must contain and remediate those incidents, identify potential process improvements, and maintain organisational readiness through preparedness exercises. Response also advises product and service owners of potential mitigations.
If you're interested in finding out more, we are holding a Home Office Cyber Security candidate information event on 17th September. You will find out about working for the organisation, hear from staff on their experiences working in Home Office Cyber Security Roles and learn more about our recruitment process. Please register here
As the Senior Cyber Incident Manager, your responsibilities will include:
* Managing and co-ordinating cyber security incidents, directing effective and timely management activities through a coordinated and structured approach across business stakeholders.
* Working with stakeholders to identify opportunities for improvement in technical controls, tooling, and processes to more effectively resolve future cyber security incidents across Home Office infrastructure.
* Ensuring documented response actions, observations, intelligence, and any potential evidence. Producing detailed, accurate and clearly written reports for a variety of senior or external stakeholders.
* Co-ordinating and managing relationships with organisational stakeholders to ensure clear and effective lines of communication across the organisation, its suppliers, partner agencies, and regulators.
* Carrying out an organisation’s response policies and processes to meet the needs in line with appropriate standards. Providing standardised advice on mitigation, escalating to a team leader where appropriate
* Helping conduct incident response exercises including scoping, design, and governance of activity. Communicating the results of investigations and risk mitigation outcomes, supporting an organisation to improve and maintain a robust response to new threats and attack vectors. Conducting post-incident review, including root cause analysis, to feed-back information and so improve monitoring
The successful candidate will be located in the Soapworks, Manchester regional office. Under Home Office hybrid working practices there is an expectation that you will attend the office for a minimum of 60% of your working hours.
Due to the nature of the role, this post is available on a full-time basis only.