Senior Information Assurance and Security Advisor

☞ Dstl

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Update day: 11-06-2024

Location: Ilfracombe South West

Category: IT - Software

Industry: Information Technology Services Research Financial Services

Position: Associate

Job type: Full-time

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The successful candidate will engage in a range of multi-faceted activities in the field of information and cyber security. This will span providing consultancy and advice, generating innovative and novel ideas and approaches, guiding research and development work in Dstl and externally, carrying out original analysis and development work, and understanding and inputting to policy and guidance generation.

In Detail, The Successful Candidate Will
  • provide expert IA technical advice to a range of stakeholders including the MOD Strategic Command and Defence Equipment & Support (DE&S) by delivering professional contribution and support across a range of research projects carried out by Dstl or through technical partnership with academia and industry;
  • ensure their currency and Subject Matter Expertise through a variety of means, including first party research, maintaining a broad and detailed industry and academic awareness, and understanding the threat landscape and potential risks or opportunities;
  • manage, guide and contribute to external research with industrial and academic partners and communicate the results to stakeholders by means of presentations and summary reports. This will also involve identifying and encouraging exploitation of developments to maximize the benefits of research;
  • engage with internal and external stakeholders to understand and interpret requirements, and to deliver knowledge and expertise in a variety of formats, including reports, papers, direct stakeholder involvement and consultancy. This may involve challenging existing and emerging policies, processes and practices, and communicating effectively in difficult situations.
Responsibilities

Dstl and, in particular, the IAS Team are looking for someone who has demonstrated experience or understanding in:
  • using or recommending security technologies, policies and processes in support of both technical and non-technical stakeholders;
  • security risk management;
  • information and cyber security Science, Technology and Research;
  • effective communication, in written and verbal format, of research outcomes and solutions that is adaptable to a number of different audiences, including the robust delivery of difficult messages;
  • leading and participating in exploratory research teams;
  • wide collaboration with other expert technical and scientific groups, and with policy and process developers.
In Addition, The Post Holder May Have Experience Of
  • defining and specifying secure end-to-end information systems architectures;
  • current and emerging cryptographic and VPN techniques and their application in secure systems architectures;
  • the UK Defence and Security environment;
  • information and cyber security standards and policy (Government and/or Industry);
  • industry awareness of and support to military systems.
Important Information
Our work in defence, security and intelligence requires our employees to be British Citizens who are able to gain a high level of security clearance to understand the work you will undertake to protect us from any security threats. For this reason, we regret that only UK Nationals will be able to apply for this role. If you are an international or dual-national candidate, and you think you have the skills we need, please consider applying to any of our government, security or defence partners.

This role will require full UK security clearance and you should have resided in the UK for the past 5 years. For some roles Developed Vetting will also be required, in this case you should have resided in the UK for the past 10 years.

If you are a current Dstl employee, you are encouraged to inform your line manager of your application as they can support you through the process and should you be successful it will help in negotiating a release date.

Work location
Dstl is strongly encouraging blended and flexible working either at one of our sites or from home or both. We want to empower you to undertake your duties at the most appropriate location for the task, however you will be allocated a Dstl site as a base. You may be required to travel to other Dstl and MoD sites as required.
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Deadline: 26-07-2024

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