Cyber Security Technician

Bath, England, United Kingdom

6/18/2025

Job Overview

The post holder will provide technical support for the Trust’s network infrastructure, contributing to information assurance and cybersecurity operations, and will report to the Cyber Security Manager.

Main duties of the job

The Post Holder Will

• Be responsible for seeking out any potential vulnerability, both internally and externally, and proposing and implementing solutions to prevent breaches of information security.
• Develop and manage the Trust’s Information Risk Register.
• Work as part of a team responsible for providing responsive, technical and mission-critical services to contribute to the design, development, deployment and security of IT systems.
• Due to the highly technical nature of this post there will be also a requirement to undertake configuration, tuning, troubleshooting, recovery fault resolution and in-depth technical fault diagnosis and problem solving.
• Use their extensive knowledge of IT systems to deliver third line support for all Trust IM&T Services.
• Monitor for vulnerabilities, potential attacks and intrusions to IT infrastructure.
• Close off any security vulnerabilities when a potential threat or attempted breach is identified.
• Maintain current specialist knowledge of professional cyber security and technical infrastructure development including relevant industry standard methodologies, tools and techniques.
  
  

Working for our organisation

At the RUH we put people at the heart of what we do, working together as one team to make a difference for our patients, each other, and our community. No matter what your role is, we value everyone’s contribution in supporting the exceptional, person-centred care we pride ourselves on.

We are proud to be in the top 20 best hospitals to work for in the country.

We are committed to creating a compassionate and inclusive environment. This can be seen in our growing community of staff networks – celebrating successes and creating opportunities to listen and learn. We value our differences, champion kindness and civility, and truly believe that diversity makes us stronger.

A culture of learning, developing and innovating is the thread that runs throughout our whole organisation. We want to support you to thrive, taking your career to its full potential.

We value staff wellbeing, with a well-established programme of support. We believe in a holistic approach spanning all aspects of living a healthy life, including physical, emotional, spiritual and financial wellbeing. We’ve even got a pool!

We are committed to supporting you and hope you want to join our team. In the meantime, find out more about living and working the beautiful historic city of Bath, learn about our extensive package of staff benefits, and read about how we’re providing healthcare fit for the future with the landmark Dyson Cancer Centre and our passion for research.

Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities

Please find attached to the vacancy a detailed person specification and job description for further information about this role.

Person specification

Qualifications And Training

Essential criteria

• Educated in relevant subject or equivalent level qualification or significant experience of working at a similar level in Information Security.
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Project Management Skills (PRINCE2 or APM PMQ)
• Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH) via GCHQ Certified Training (GCT)
  
  

Knowledge and Experience

Essential criteria

• Experience of security improvement programs within the NHS.
• Demonstrates considerable experience of working within a technical discipline e.g. Cloud Services, server & workstation, Active Directory Administration, Group Policy Object creation, virtualisation, firewall support, digital security tools and general 3rd line support activities.
• Experience of developing and delivering an Information Security service to a large complex organisation using confidential and/or sensitive information.
• Prior experience performing security reviews, audits and risk assessments.
  
  

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post will require a submission for Disclosure to be made to check for any unspent criminal convictions.

Documents to download

• Job Description & Person Spec - Cyber Security Technician (PDF, 551.1KB)
• Join the RUH (PDF, 1.1MB)
  
  

Further details / informal visits contact

Name Joffre Petteford Job title Cyber Security Lead Email address [email protected] Telephone number 01225 825444