A Cyber Security Specialist is required for a permanent role paying up to £59,064.98 per annum with British Transport Police (BTP) to be located in London, Manchester, Birmingham, Leeds, Cardiff or Glasgow.

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. As Cyber Security Specialist with BTP you will hold responsibility for the confidentiality, integrity and availability of the Forces IT estate, offering cyber expertise across a wide range of work streams.

We can offer the successful candidate a blended home and office based working arrangement.

Key activities include:

• Identify, Protect, Detect, Respond and Recover through proactive engagement and assurance to ensure our IT applications and platforms are safe and secure.
• Provide Cyber Security advice for large projects, ensuring that security standards are considered and embedded with any technical business developments.
• Educate and guide colleagues across the company and external suppliers, using a range of information security technologies and applying best practice to support the ongoing protection of digital assets and services from a growing list of cyber threats.
• Provide cyber input to a wide range of projects, ensuring that our cyber standards are embedded and understood.

Key requirements include:

• Recognised industry qualification (desirable)
• Experience of responding to cyber events, investigating incidents, performing forensic analysis and undertaking eDiscovery
• Solid understanding of networks, encryption, security policy and access controls
• Demonstrable experience of security concepts in relation to IAM, Active Directory, Group Policies, device provisioning
• Experience of managing third party cyber security providers
• Fluency in welsh language, written and verbal is desirable if located in Wales

In return for your experience, we can offer you:

• Salary of up to £59,064.98 (£39,877.88 base + 10% on-call allowance + £2,700.10 London Allowance + a SFIA supplement of up to £12,500)
• 28 days annual leave plus bank holidays
• Access to a wide range of training and certifications via Microsoft ESI and Pluralsight platforms
• Competitive pension scheme
• Flexible agile working approach
• 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

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 (dependant on the level of vetting required of the role). 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.

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 October 2022. If you have any queries, please contact the recruitment team - recruitmentteam@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.