Security Operations Centre Team Lead

HM Land Registry ("HMLR") and Inspire People are bringing you an exciting opportunity for a Security Operations Centre Technical Team Lead. You will provide technical leadership for the Security Operations Centre team providing technical oversight and direction. You will engage with various teams across DDaT to maintain security monitoring, threat intelligence and vulnerability management controls to detect and alert across all HM Land Registry technical assets. Salary of £46,058 - £57,400 dependent upon interview assessment plus excellent Civil Service benefits and 28% pension contribution. Flexible, hybrid working from Plymouth.

Job description

• You will take forward technical consolidation and/or improvement activities providing guidance and leadership to technicians within the IT Operations Practice and wider, whilst also working across DDaT to support and deliver solutions in line with the Technology and Business Strategies.
• Working closely with the Lead Infrastructure Engineers and subject matter experts, you will develop and maintain security monitoring, threat intelligence and vulnerability management controls, to detect and alert across all HMLR technical assets. You will work with technical teams to develop SOC scenario-based run books to respond to security events & incidents.
• Develop vulnerability tools to ensure awareness of threats and risks to security controls. Working with Lead Infrastructure Engineers and other security teams to advise and guide operational teams on Security controls.
• Engage with project teams to provide assurance around the security of new and existing services at key points.

Person specification

You possess extensive experience within a Security Operations Centre or operational security environment, demonstrating a proven track record of leading technical teams or functions within an enterprise setting. You hold a qualification in Information Technology or a related field at the degree level or equivalent, or you can showcase significant experience in an IT domain.

As an excellent communicator, you thrive in collaborative team environments. Your expertise includes Incident Response, where you have led technical investigations and developed response frameworks. You are proficient with Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) systems and adept at utilising Cyber Threat Intelligence within this context.

You have a strong capability to manage technical risks and lead the implementation of mitigations. Additionally, you are experienced in working with IT Service Management (ITSM) systems to manage and prioritise workloads, and you excel in producing and maintaining technical procedures and playbooks.

Essential Experience:

• Experience within a Security Operations Centre or operational security environment
• Experience in configuring and maintaining SIEM tooling including operating procedures and playbook
• Utilisation of Cyber Threat Intelligence within a Security Operations context
• Experience in Incident Response, particularly in leading on technical investigations and response frameworks and procedures
• Ability to manage technical risk and lead on implementing appropriate mitigations
• Experience of managing or leading a technical team or function within an enterprise environment
• Experience working with ITSM systems to manage and progress workloads using a prioritised approach
• Excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to work effectively as part of a team

Benefits

• Salary between £46,058 - £57,400 depending on skills assessed at interview
• 28.9% employer pension contribution
• Annual leave of 28.5 days' paid holiday during each holiday year plus 8 days public holidays
• Personalised training and development plans including expensed accreditations with training days set aside
• Flexi-time scheme (You decide what working hours work best for you)
• Social and sports club including on site gyms
• Access to our employee assistance programme for counselling and support on a wide range of issues
• Up to three paid volunteering days a year
• Interest-free loan for season tickets
• Cycle to work scheme
• Two-times annual salary death-in-service benefit.
• HMLR have a strong and positive culture, a commitment to inclusivity, an emphasis on continuous learning and development and flexible ways of working.
• This role requires SC clearance, a condition of which is to have been present in the UK for 5 out of the past 5 years.
• This post may include participation in an on-call rota, subject to additional pay.

If you are a Security Operations Centre Technical Team Lead, keen to make significant impact to over 6000 users and work on Critical National Infrastructure then apply today or contact Keesha Paulsen at Inspire People in complete confidence for further information.