Cyber and Specialist Operations Command - Cyber Security Advisor

Cyber & Specialist Operations Command (CSOC) generates and operates specialist capabilities, ready to fight across all domains to make the UK secure at home and strong abroad.

Always on, we are across every UK operation, delivering the capabilities you dont usually seeor those you cant.

From cyber warriors and medics to intelligence analysts, special forces, educators, and Defence attachés, our collective expertise delivers the warfighting edge Defence needs to deter threats and secure the nation today, and prepare for tomorrow.

CSOC builds on the strong foundations of Strategic Command, reshaped to unite Defences cyber and specialist capabilities under a single, military command alongside the Royal Navy, British Army and the Royal Air Force - acting as the UKs fourth Military Command.

Passionate about using your skills to make a critical difference? Your next career move could be here.

This position is advertised at 37 hours per week.

As Cyber Security Advisor, youll provide impartial advice to senior leadership and desk-level practitioners alike, identifying business and operational requirements across Defence, determining how cyber security capabilities should be used to best effect and supporting the integration of those capabilities into service.

The Defensive Cyber Security Joint User (DCJU) team, part of Cyber & Specialist Operations Command, ensures that the entirety of Defence has the cyber security equipment and capabilities that defend and protect our business and operational outputs. By directing, managing, and assuring change management activity throughout the organisation, we respond to risks and threats, ultimately increasing Defences resilience.

Youll nurture and sustain strong ties with cyber and IT practitioners and industry bodies alike, providing insight into trends and threats, in support of effective holistic business understanding.

In this role, youll provide vital analysis of our current capabilities, to identify shortfalls against a rapidly changing threat and appropriate capability responses to cyber threats, shaping our future procurement programme. Youll ensure that equipment and capabilities, delivered to front line cyber practitioners, are ready to be used and support integration into the wider eco-system.

Responsibilities

Support senior leaders in understanding the cyber security risk context and advise them on suitable medium to long-term response options.

Work within established security and risk management structures, to analyse and derive of business-supporting and operational cyber security needs.

Provide tailored advice to a range of stakeholders on how to remedy identified risks, by proportionately applying cyber security capabilities, using published guidance, standards, and drawing on a range of experts as well as personal expertise.

Provide guidance as to how new cyber security capabilities should be employed to reduce the cyber threat to Defence.

Please ensure that your CV and application meet the essential criteria below:

We would expect to see some previous experience and a working knowledge of cyber security, the practical application of methodologies and frameworks, such as the Cyber Assessment Framework or NIST, to support capability delivery with a programme environment and / or operational security management.

Youll need:

• Excellent stakeholder management skills, building and maintaining strong working