Head of Cyber Security

FHQ
Force Headquarters, Camden, London
C001
Full Time
Permanent
Up to £84,682.64 per annum
£3,033.56
10%
Up to £24,076

Head of Cyber Security is required for a permanent role paying up to £84,682.64 per annum with British Transport Police (BTP) based in FHQ Camden, London. 

Summary:

BTP is the national police force for the rail network throughout Great Britain, including London Underground, across which we ensure the safety and security of nearly 3 billion passenger journeys and over 100 million tons of freight every year. The world in which we work is fast paced, operationally and commercially demanding, and constantly changing. This role reports directly to the Deputy Chief Information Officer and is accountable for Cyber Security across the organisation.

Job Description:

The Head of Cyber Security plays a vital role in designing, enabling and delivering the Cyber Security Vision and Strategy within BTP.  The role supports the formal accreditation process required to ensure continued access to policing systems and leads our security transformation and cyber security improvement plan. 

We are looking for a leader and visionary with the capacity to tackle complex security issues within a technically challenging law enforcement environment.  You will have a strong technical background in a variety of roles evidenced through your career progression, but at the same time possess the business acumen and communication skills to breakdown and convey technical challenges to non technical audiences. 

You will be accustomed to dealing with senior leaders in command and control environments, be able to promote the value of risk based decision making and use your highly developed stakeholder management and interpersonal skills to negotiate successful outcomes and find the middle ground.

You will lead a dynamic team of hardworking and enthusiastic technical specialists across the cyber security domain and provide mentoring and professional development to enhance their expertise and core skills and take personal responsibility for their career development. You will be an evangelist and advocate for team security and promote the right security behaviours across the organisation and wider police force.

Responsibilities:

  • Define and implement the cyber security strategy, roadmap and security improvement plan
  • Take the lead on our annual IT Health Check (ITHC), regulatory and mandatory risk & audit returns
  • Provide expert advice and guidance on all cyber security related matters and ensure the wider technology teams are engaged and supported
  • Ensure our suppliers and vendors are appropriately assessed against our security controls frameworks and comply with our security standards and any certification claims
  • Promote a culture of secure by design and left shift security throughout our project development lifecycle and delivery processes
  • Support the agenda for our cloud first strategy and ensure any cloud solutions meet our security aspirations and requirements
  • Provide line management to a talented team of security professionals, ensuring members are coached, professionally developed and supported in their career journeys
  • Take responsibility for incident management and lead our response to cyber security events, incidents and potential breaches
  • Effective resource planning, ensuring the Cyber Security department is able to provide the relevant support to service programmes and projects operating within the Technology Programme Management Office (PMO) 

Person Specification:

  • Educated to at least degree level or can evidence equivalent industry experience
  • Security domain specific experience showing progression through a number of roles with increasing responsibilities
  • Possesses relevant and current industry qualifications and certifications (e.g. CISM, CISSP, CCP).
  • Strong technical leadership, stakeholder management and communication skills
  • Experience managing high performing multi-disciplinary teams in complex infrastructure environments
  • A strong technical background across Networks, Security, Firewall, Vulnerability Management, SIEM and EDR technologies
  • Experience with cyber security concepts, such as Threat Modelling, Incident Response, Penetration Testing (external /internal)
  • Advanced knowledge of cloud products and services e.g. Azure, AWS, Office 365
  • Used to leading and developing in Agile working environments, creating high performing teams and promoting a digital delivery culture
  • Emotionally intelligence and able to recognise and manage the needs and expectations of customers, both internal and external, whilst juggling priorities
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to translate technical speak into easy to understand non complex language
  • Engage with board of directors and senior leaders to promote and enable risk based decision making

In return for your experience, we can offer you:

  • Salary up to £84,682.64 (The total salary includes a base salary of £52,519.58 plus 10% on call allowance, plus £2835.11 London Allowance (if applicable) plus up to £24,076 SFIA Allowance per annum (depending on experience).
  • Yearly base salary increments
  • 28 days annual leave plus bank holidays
  • Family friendly policies including up to 26 weeks paid maternity and adoption leave
  • Bespoke benefits platform and access to Blue Light Card
  • Development opportunities including fully funded apprenticeships
  • Employee assistance programme and dedicated wellbeing hub
  • Pension scheme 

As an equal opportunities employer, British Transport Police is committed to the inclusive treatment of all current and prospective employees and does not condone discrimination on the basis of age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, gender identity, or marriage and civil partnership. We want our organisation to be as diverse as the community it serves and strongly encourage applicants from a wide range of backgrounds to apply. In order for us to achieve this we ask that you complete the relevant diversity monitoring form. Any information relating to the diversity monitoring form are used only with the intent to improve our services and people practices. Please be assured that all applications will be judged on their individual merit and no other factors.

In order to apply, you must have the permanent right to live and work in the UK and have been resident in the UK for the previous 5 YEARS. You will be asked these and other questions to determine your eligibility to work for British Transport Police when you start your application and you must answer honestly. Closing date for applications is 30th March at 12pm.

BTP has undertaken a review of Police Staff pensions and as a result of this the Police Staff pension will be changing. The current police staff pension is a Defined Benefit scheme which is administered by the Railways Pension scheme. The new pension scheme which is launching is a Defined Contribution scheme which is administered by Royal London. The new pension scheme is awaiting formal approval and an introductory date is not finalised. The earliest this will be is June 2023. If you have any queries, please contact the recruitment team – pension-queries@btp.police.uk

Internal candidates must have completed their probation for their current substantive posting and can only apply in tenure if Head of Department approval is emailed to Recruitmentteam@btp.police.uk prior to the vacancy closing. Internal candidates must confirm that they are not subject to formal action plans for sickness/complaints/discipline or poor performance and that all mandatory training courses have been attended and are in ticket/up to date. A minimum indicator of 3 / developing' or' 'Indicator 5 / no rating must have been achieved on the last reporting year PDR.

This opportunity is closed to applications.