Senior Cyber Security Consultant 15 views

As a Cyber Security Consultant, you will be part of the Cyber Security Services team, providing cyber security consultancy services for projects and business as usual (BAU) activities and supporting ongoing compliance and assessing risk.

Reporting to the Lead Cyber Security Consultant, the team is responsible for providing advice and guidance to IT workstreams delivering Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency’s (DVLA’s) web services, liaising with other teams in the IT department, providing security architecture input to technical designs and solutions and acting as a source of advice and guidance to the cyber security team and the wider agency.

You will be an experienced cyber security professional who can:

• Apply your extensive knowledge of cyber and information security.
• Assess risks to existing and proposed systems and technical solutions, and then devise risk management plans to address such risks.
• To a large degree manage your own time and resources to deliver the required outcomes.
• Be actively engaged in the major change programme being implemented at DVLA, including playing an important role in solution evaluation and technology selection.
• Develop and maintain good relationships with a wide range of stakeholders.
• Work as part of a team to deliver cyber security services.
• Develop/progress your own skills and career and also to actively coach and develop others.

Would you like to find out more about the role, the digital team and what it’s like to work at DVLA? If so, we are organising a familiarisation session where you can virtually ‘meet the team’ on Tuesday 19th November at 12:30pm.

Please click here to book on.

Your responsibilities will include but will not be limited to:

• Being responsible for developing risk assessments in line with agreed risk assessment methodology within agreed timescales in order to provide senior managers with the appropriate information to make information risk management decisions.
• Managing relationships with:
  • Work package stakeholders (senior managers seeking security advice on work packages, project managers etc).
  • Third party suppliers of consultancy services.
  • Third party developers.
• Providing timely subject matter expert advice and consultancy in accordance with HMG security guidelines and DVLA policy on IT and information security issues to DVLA staff.
• Providing expert advice and recommendations including where relevant risk assessments and business impact analysis in relation to the designated area of responsibility.
• Reviewing security-relevant project documentation, including, but not limited to, High Level Designs and Low Level Designs.

For further information about the role please see the attached role profile.

Additional Information 

Applications will be accepted from full time/part time/job sharers. Full time roles at DVLA consist of 37 hours per week. Part time and/or flexible working may also be available subject to the needs of the business. If you have a flexible or part time working requirement, you should contact the vacancy holder in advance of making an application to avoid possible disappointment later in the process should your desired working arrangements not be compatible with the requirements of the role. To contact the vacancy holder, please use the job contact details listed under ‘Contact point for applicants’.

You’ll have demonstrable skills and experience of:

• Professional information security certification – CISSP or similar, or willingness to attain.
• Experience in a Cyber Security or Information Security role.
• Solid knowledge of various information security frameworks.
• Problem-solving and analytical skills.
• Effective verbal and written communication skills.
• Broad understanding of cloud-based technical environment.

Working for the DVLA Digital Team

At DVLA, licensing is just the start. Every project you implement, touch and deliver has a ripple effect that’ll wash across the nation. Here the work you’re doing has the capacity to change the way 50 million people interact with our services. As we aim to keep our roads some of the safest in the world, our innovative, transformative digital-led services help optimise a nation of individuals and business every single day.

To see how our people are transforming our digital services, head over to our DVLA Digital Services Blog and, to understand more about the great opportunities and benefits of working at DVLA read our Inside DVLA blog.