This is an exciting opportunity to join the Operational Capability (OC) Team within the DWP Cyber Resilience Centre (CRC). The OC Team offers a uniquely challenging and fulfilling opportunity for people interested in making a genuine difference to society.
The CRC is an innovative and responsive operation delivering a range of services to help DWP protect, monitor and respond to malicious behaviour or activity and threats to, or compromises of, financial and personal data assets.
To support CRC’s aims, the Senior Communications Security (ComSec) Manager delivers a multitude of services across DWP and its Partner Organisations including:
* Enabling secure working with information classified secret and above.
* Utilising investigative and monitoring tools protecting the integrity of systems from internal threat factors.
* Produce Work Force modelling and analysis.
This role is unique and challenging, which will offer you a wealth of development opportunities to further your career in Cybersecurity.
Working as the Senior ComSec Manager within the OC Team you will be part of an innovative and service-orientated team, you will also be involved with many roles.
You will, focus on the detection and investigation of potential indicators of compromise or malicious activity across the whole of CRC. You will provide comprehensive analysis of system alerts as well as proactive analysis of activity captured in system logs to quickly determine if behaviour/activity detected warrants closer attention, and systems may have been compromised.
You will collaborate with stakeholders across CRC and in the wider security community to ensure an effective response to alerts and risks as they are identified.
Where appropriate you will escalate potential incidents, collating and presenting all necessary information to others, to enable immediate and accurate investigations. You will use security and Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) tools to support your decision making.
Successful candidate can also expect to be involved in a range of the following:
Lead any remedial activity necessary following inappropriate behaviour by internal CRC staff.
Lead investigations of security incidents, protecting the integrity of systems from internal threat factors.
Inform and influence the development of monitoring systems and supporting processes and playbooks, ensuring systems are in place to review and continually improve existing capabilities.
Provide oversight and management of the Rosa Local Security Officers located in each of the main Hubs located around the UK.
Manage all Rosa assets and act as Partner Security Officer, providing assurance to Rosa Service Centre as required.
Liaise with other Partner organisations to establish standard Rosa requirements and delivery mechanisms for example training, communication messages.
Manage the secure use, custody, movement, or destruction of STRAP material within the department and those Partner organisations which have been authorised by the Department to hold use such material.
Produce Work Force modelling and analysis as required for the CRC Senior Leadership Team.
Support the Head of Operational Capability in Work Force Planning activities.
Provide support to the Head of Operational Capability to develop and achieve capabilities to meet CRC strategic goals.
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