Cyber Security Officer

Scottish Government

Hybrid

Expires: Expiring in less than 3 weeks

Full time

£49,401 - £59,152 per year

Job summary

Want to play a key role in protecting a digital platform used by over one million learners across Scotland?

This is an exciting role within Education Scotland where you will be instrumental in helping to drive forward the implementation of an ambitious Information and Cyber Security programme. Working with the Lead Cyber Security Officer, the Technical Delivery Team and Digital Services, amongst others, you will help ensure the confidentiality, integrity and availability of corporate digital systems, including Glow, the national Digital Learning platform for schools which has over one million provisioned users.

You will also help to support the design and implementation of cyber security controls and measures for transformative projects within Education Scotland. This is a high impact role which offers the successful candidate the opportunity of making a strong and significant impact to the benefit hundreds of thousands of learners and teachers across Scotland.

Job description

Leading the provision of advice and guidance on security strategies to manage identified risks and ensure adoption and adherence to standards.
Leading penetration testing, security risk assessments and business impact analysis on information systems.
Interpret information assurance and security policies and applies these in order to manage risks.
Provide advice and guidance to ensure adoption of and adherence to information assurance architectures, strategies, policies, standards and guidelines.
Threat Identification and Risk Management.
Security Project Design, Procurement and Implementation.
Third Party Oversight- Development, delivery and monitoring compliance of Security Awareness campaigns.
Providing consultancy on projects.
Development of Information Security policies, procedures and guidelines and managing compliance.
Supporting and developing the Information Security Management system- Incident Response.
Leading and mentoring junior members of security staff.

Person specification

Technical/Professional Skills

- Information risk assessment and risk management

- Applied security capability

- Protective security

- Threat understanding

You can find out more about the technical skills required for this role on the UK Government security profession career framework

Experience
- Knowledge of Information Security standards such as ISO/IEC 27001, NIST CSF and NCSC CAF with a proven ability to interpret and apply these standards in organisational contexts.
- Understanding of the internal and external information security risks and administrative, physical and technical controls to mitigate against these risks effectively.
- Demonstrable experience in providing information security advice and leadership in the planning, execution, and management of Information Security
projects, ensuring alignment with organisational goals and industry best practices.
- Knowledge of current legislation, regulations, and standards relevant to information security and privacy, including but not limited to the Data Protection Act 2018 (DPA 2018) and the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), with the ability to interpret legal requirements and integrate compliance measures into operational frameworks.

Behaviours
- Leadership (Level 3)
- Changing and Improving (Level 3)
- Communicating and Influencing (Level 3)
- Developing self and others (Level 3)

You can find out more about Success Profiles Behaviours, here: Success Profiles - Civil Service Behaviours (publishing.service.gov.uk)

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £49,401, Scottish Government contributes £14,311 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.

Learning and development tailored to your role
An environment with flexible working options
A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity
A Civil Service pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%

Things you need to know

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Selection process details

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Security

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Nationality requirements

This job is broadly open to the following groups:

UK nationals
nationals of the Republic of Ireland
nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service

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Working for the Civil Service

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We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles (opens in a new window).The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.

Diversity and Inclusion

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Salary range

£49,401 - £59,152 per year