Cyber Operations purpose is to support safe care and build public trust by building NHS England’s cyber resilience and enabling the wider health system to be cyber resilient, supporting Transformation Directorate’s purpose of delivering the best care and outcomes for the NHS.
The Cyber Operations Sub-directorate Consists Of 4 Operational Areas
- Cyber Security Operations Unit (CSOU)
- Cyber Delivery Unit (CDU).
- Cyber Improvement Programme.
- Chief Information Security Office Function (CISO)
The Cyber Security Lead – Threat Hunting will be responsible for leading a dedicated threat hunting team and the outputs from function within the Cyber Security Operations Centre (CSOC). The Threat Hunting Lead will be responsible for the proactive investigation into cyber threats to healthcare organisations onboarded to CSOC services, hunting across endpoint, cloud and identity signals.
The post of Security Lead (Analyst) has been awarded a Recruitment and Retention Premia (RRP) in response to current labour market conditions. In recognition of this, the role attracts an additional monthly RRP payment equal to 30% per annum.
Please be aware that RRP is non contractual and subject to review.
The Post Holder Will
- Act as the specialist for the threat hunting team and act as an escalation point for all threat hunting activities in the topic.
- Generate reports for technical and non-technical stakeholders, creating documentation or detailed reports that provide narrative for complex subjects to board level / senior management.
- Act as a technical specialist in advanced forensic investigations in support of Security Operations function.
- Responsible for the management and delivery of threat use cases and content, Ideation, production of bespoke detections to identify malicious activity across NHS tooling and telemetry.
- Prioritise workload and hunts carried out by the team.
- Interface and build relationships with Incident Management and Threat Intelligence teams.
- Management of staff, resource allocation, and workload.
- Ensure the objectives and activities of the function are aligned with overarching Threat Operations strategy.
The NHS England Board Have Set Out The Top-level Purpose For The New Organisation To Lead The NHS In England To Deliver High-quality Services For All, Which Will Inform The Detailed Design Work And We Will Achieve This Purpose By
- Enabling local systems and providers to improve the health of their people and patients and reduce health inequalities.
- Making the NHS a great place to work, where our people can make a difference and achieve their potential.
- Working collaboratively to ensure our healthcare workforce has the right knowledge, skills, values and behaviours to deliver accessible, compassionate care
- Optimising the use of digital technology, research, and innovation
- Delivering value for money.
If you would like to know more or require further information, please visit https://www.england.nhs.uk/.
Colleagues with a contractual office base are expected to spend, on average, at least 40% of their time working in-person.
Staff recruited from outside the NHS will usually be appointed at the bottom of the pay band.
If you are successful at interview, we will run an Inter Authority Transfer (IAT) in the Electronic Staff Record system (ESR). This transfer gathers valuable information from a previous or current NHS employer to support the onboarding process, including; statutory and mandatory competency status, Continuous Service Dates (CSD), and annual leave entitlement. You will have the opportunity throughout the recruitment process to inform us if you do not consent.
For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Ryan Lee Job title: Security Principal Email address:
[email protected]
