Negotiable
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Portsmouth, Hampshire
Summary: The Security Assurance Coordinator (Cyber Security DTSL) role involves leading the Delivery Team Support for the Security as a Service Team at HMS Excellent in Portsmouth. The position focuses on managing security elements across Royal Navy capabilities, ensuring compliance with security requirements, and providing oversight for Navy Digital projects. The role requires collaboration with various stakeholders to enhance information assurance and cyber risk management. Candidates should possess relevant security experience and communication skills to support the agile development of digital services.
Key Responsibilities:
- Manage existing and emerging security elements across fixed and deployed Royal Navy capabilities.
- Prioritize security requirements against Royal Navy objectives and outputs.
- Allocate resources from a central security service function to Navy Digital projects.
- Oversee and coordinate planning for through-life security activities across Navy Digital.
- Develop accreditation and assurance strategies for complex security requirements.
- Produce key Information Assurance deliverables for Navy Digital customers and stakeholders.
- Provide security support for rapid development and delivery of Navy Digital software and hardware.
- Identify, report, and escalate cyber risks across Navy Digital and the Royal Navy.
- Interface with MoD Information Assurance stakeholders.
- Adapt to future changes in security requirements and approaches.
- Assist in implementing technical, physical, and procedural security controls.
Key Skills:
- MOD security clearance or willingness to undergo Security Clearance to SC level.
- Experience in security assurance and/or cyber risk.
- Knowledge of industry standards and cyber security/risk.
- Background knowledge of naval or maritime environments is advantageous.
- Excellent communication skills.
- Ability to follow established processes.
- Computer literate with good knowledge of Microsoft applications.
Salary (Rate): undetermined
City: Portsmouth
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: undetermined
IR35 Status: undetermined
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: IT
Job Specification Delivery Team Support Lead in the Security as a Service Team HMS Excellent is home to the Naval Headquarters and front-line training units. Based on Whale Island in Portsmouth Harbour, it successfully blends heritage and history with a modern and progressive outlook. HMS Excellent is a unique shore establishment with its roots in more than 100 years of naval history. Navy Digital is required to deliver and sustain digital and information security services that enable the secure operation of Information Communication Technology (ICT) equipment, services, and applications. In order for Navy Digital to achieve this goal in an agile and effective manner, a central security service must be established. This service will establish a single coherent approach to Navy Digital's requirements to prevent duplication and improve efficiency. This Outcome is for the provision of Security as a Service across a full spectrum of programmes and projects delivering digital outcomes that enable current and future information-based capabilities supporting Navy Command Information, MoD and HMG defence and national security outputs.
TaskingProvide a central focal point and function for managing all existing and new and emerging security elements across both fixed and deployed RN capability, including: The prioritisation of existing and new security requirements against RN top-level objectives and outputs.The allocation of SQEP from a central security as a service function to Navy Digital projects and programmes of work to draw upon.The management of resource against demand for the service within the RN.Provide central oversight and co-ordinate planning for all through-life security activity across Navy Digital delivery and programmes of work.The development of accreditation and assurance strategies against complex security requirements within the maritime environment and across the Defence Lines of Development (DLODs).The production of key InformationAssurancedeliverables to meet the needs of Navy Digital customers, as well askeyMoD and RN stakeholders, including: High and low-level security requirements.Risk Management & Accreditation Document Set (RMADS).Legal and regulatory artefacts applicable to the MoD e.g., Data Privacy Impact Assessments (DPIA).Risk Balance and Security Cases.The provision of security support enables the rapid development and delivery of Navy Digital software and hardware in an agile manner, whilst satisfying mandatory security requirements.Provide a consistent and coherent means of identifying, reporting, and escalating cyber risk across Navy Digital and the RN.Provide an interface between Navy Digital projects and MoD Information Assurance stakeholders e.g., Cyber Defence and Risk Accreditor.The ability to adapt and respond to future changes in security requirements and approaches towards Information Assurance.Providing knowledge and experience to assist Navy Digital to implement working-level technical, physical, and procedural security controls in accordance with MOD policy and local operating environments i.e., UK fixed locations responsible for hosting Navy Digital capability.
Person Specification To be considered for this role you will have the following: Desirable SkillsMOD security clearance or be content to undergo Security Clearance to SC level.Experience within security assurance and/or cyber riskKnowledge of industry standards and cyber security/riskBackground knowledge of either naval or maritime would be advantageousExcellent communication skillsAble to follow laid down processComputer literate and good knowledge of Microsoft applications.
Role specificsStart date - ASAPEnd date - 31st July 2028Rate - dependent on experience and interviewBase Location - PortsmouthGuidant, Carbon60, Lorien & SRG - The Impellam Group Portfolio are acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.