91353 - Lead Protective Monitoring Analyst

Salary   The national salary range is £39,868 - £43,535, London salary range is £45,824 - £50,039. Your salary will be dependent on your base location Total pay in the range of '£30,001 to £40,000, £40,001 to £50,000, £50,001 to £60,000' are subject to capability, skills and experience. Salary may consist of base pay and a Recruitment and Retention Allowance (RRA) Number of jobs available   1 Detail of reserve list   12 Months Region   National City/Town   National Building/Site   NATIONAL Please note: Some of our MoJ Office locations, such as our Liverpool Justice Collaboration Centre, require higher levels of National Security Vetting. The MoJ is working to open more Justice Collaboration Centres and Justice Satellite Offices over time. Click here to learn more about where our currently open Justice Collaboration Centres and Justice Satellite Offices are, to identify where you may be based and understand National Security Vetting requirements of each location. Grade   SEO Organisation Grade for MoJ   SEO Post Type   Permanent Working Pattern   Full Time, Part Time, Part Time/Job Share, Flexible Working Role Type   Digital Will the successful applicant have line manager responsibilities?   Yes Job description  

Closing Date: 6th November

Interviews: W/C 18th November (subject to change) 

Grade: SEO

(MoJ candidates who are on a specialist grade, will be able to retain this grade on lateral transfer) 

Salary: National: £39868 - £51675 (which may include an allowance of up to £11807). London: £45824 - £56050 (which may include an allowance of up to £10226). 

Working pattern: Full-time, part-time, flexible working, job share. 

Contract Type: Permanent. 

Vacancy number: 91353 

*We offer a hybrid working model, allowing for a balance between remote work and time spent in your local office. Office locations can be found ON THIS MAP

The Role

We’re recruiting for a Lead Protective Monitoring Analyst here at Justice Digital, to be part of our warm and collaborative DISO team. 

This role aligns against Monitoring Lead from the Government Security Profession framework. 

This is a vital role in the protection of the Ministry of Justice’s technology, systems and services alongside the vital information they contain.  The Security Operations Centre provides security monitoring across the Ministry of Justice.

The team aims to provide constant vigilance against security attacks, respond when they do occur, and continuously seek out ways to improve the security of our systems.

 

 The team is a mix of Threat Intelligence, Digital Forensics and Monitoring specialists. These are made up of a mix of SEO, HEO and EO roles with plenty of collaboration and development both horizontally and vertically.

You’ll be joining as a Lead Analyst in the Protective Monitoring team, working on the active defence of the Ministry of Justice digital and technology solutions against cyber security threats. 

Working closely with stakeholders, developers and network teams, you’ll help ensure that threats and vulnerabilities are dealt with effectively and that people are kept informed about their services.  You’ll focus on the impact on real people, and look for ways to make things safer for them.

You’ll also be learning the tools we use to do the job, and improving your skills in Cybersecurity while supporting junior analysts’ learning, and senior analysts’ investigations. 

To help picture your life at MoJ Justice Digital please take a look at our blog and our Digital and Technology strategy 2025 

Key Responsibilities:

• Proactively monitor logs and event information to effectively identify and help mitigate potential threats to the MoJ.
• Independently investigates complex cases involving cyber security incidents.
• Leads continuous response automation and alert improvement
• Threat hunting across the whole estate to identify gaps and problems.
• Line management of Protective Monitor Analysts.
• Interprets device and application logs from a variety of sources.
• Develops an understanding of the MoJ’s security tools and technologies.
• Build and maintain relationships across the organisation.
• Developing your skills and learn from others.
• Works hours or shifts outside of normal work hours in an “on call” capacity as needed.
• Works well in a team environment, with the ability to train, coach, and manage junior members of the larger team.

If this feels like an exciting challenge, something you are enthusiastic about, and want to join our team please read on and apply!

Benefits

• 37 hours per week and flexible working options including working from home, working part-time, job sharing, or working compressed hours.
• A £1k per person learning budget is in place to support all our people, with access to best in class conferences and seminars, accreditation with professional bodies, fully funded vocational programmes and e-learning platforms
• Staff have 10% time to dedicate to develop & grow
• Generous civil service pension based on defined benefit scheme, with employer contributions of 28.97% from April 1st 2024 (Contribution Rates)
• 25 days leave (plus bank holidays) and 1 privilege day usually taken around the Kings’ birthday. 5 additional days of leave once you have reached 5 years of service.
• Compassionate maternity, adoption, and shared parental leave policies, with up to 26 weeks leave at full pay, 13 weeks with partial pay, and 13 weeks further leave. And maternity support/paternity leave at full pay for 2 weeks, too!
• Wellbeing support including access to the Calm app.
• Bike loans up to £2500 and secure bike parking (subject to availability and location)
• Season ticket loans, childcare vouchers and eye-care vouchers.
• 5 days volunteering paid leave.
• Free membership to BCS, the Chartered Institute for IT.
• Some offices may have a subsidised onsite Gym. 

Person Specification 

Essential 

• Previous experience working in a cyber security environment.
• Understanding of complex cases involving cyber security incidents - such as suspected data breaches, intellectual property theft, insider threat investigations, fraud and abuse, and asset misuse. Understand own level of responsibility and empower others to make decisions where appropriate. Analyse and use a range of relevant, credible information from internal and external sources to support decisions.
• Experienced team leader who can demonstrate pride and passion for their role, engaging with others to delivering a shared vision. Value difference, diversity and inclusion, ensuring fairness and opportunity for all.
• Take responsibility for delivering timely and quality results with focus and drive, respond to unexpected events quickly with a logical plan, taking into account policies, goals and resources.
• Working with other teams to encourage joined up teamwork within own team and across other groups. Establish professional relationships with a range of stakeholders and technical engineers.
• Working knowledge of information security standards and data privacy regulations, including EU General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR) and UK General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR).

Willingness to be assessed against the requirements for SC clearance. 

The Civil Service is committed to attract, retain and invest in talent wherever it is found. To learn more please see the Civil Service People Plan and the Civil Service D&I Strategy. 

How to Apply 

Candidates must submit a CV and statement of suitability (of no more than 750 words) via our applicant website Jobtrain, which describes how you meet the requirements set out in the Person Specification above. Candidates who do not submit both a CV and a separate statement of suitability will not be invited to attend an interview. 

In Justice Digital, we recruit using a combination of the Government Digital and Data Profession Capability and Success Profiles Frameworks. We will assess your Experience and the following Behaviours during the assessment process: 

• Making Effective Decisions
• Leadership
• Delivering at Pace
• Working Together 

A diverse panel will review your application against the Person Specification above. 

Successful candidates who meet the required standard will then be invited to a 1-hour panel interview held via video conference. 

Should we receive a high volume of applications, a pre-sift based on ‘Previous experience working in a cyber security environment’ will be conducted before the sift. 

Should you be unsuccessful in the role that you have applied for but demonstrate the capability for a role at a lower level, we reserve the right to discuss this opportunity with you and offer you the position without needing a further application. 

A reserve list may be held for up to 12 months, from which further appointments may be made.

Terms & Conditions

Please review our Terms & Conditions which set out how we recruit and provide further information related to the role and salary arrangements. 

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact recruitment@digital.justice.gov.uk 

Allowance Details   National: £39868 - £51675 (which may include an allowance of up to £11807). London: £45824 - £56050 (which may include an allowance of up to £10226). Closing Date:  

06/11/2024, 23:55 hours.

Contact information   If you require any assistance please call 0345 241 5359 (Monday to Friday 8am - 6pm) or e mail Moj-recruitment-vetting-enquiries@gov.sscl.com Please quote the job reference - 91353. Level of security checks required   Security Clearance (SC)

To apply for roles in MOJ you will need to confirm your employment history for at least 3 years prior to the date of application so that pre-employment checks (BPSS) can be undertaken. If you have spent significant time abroad (a total of 6 months in the past 3 years) you would be required to give a reasonable account of the reasons why. 

For some roles you will be required to successfully complete National Security Vetting at Counter Terrorism (CTC), Security Clearance (SC) or Developed Vetting (DV) level as a condition of appointment. To meet CTC/SC/DV requirements you will normally need to have been resident in the UK for at least 3/5/10 years prior to the date of application (The level of checks that are required are stated in the advert).

If you do not meet the above requirements, you may still be considered if, for example:

• You've been serving overseas with HM Forces or in some other official capacity as a representative of HM Government
• You were studying abroad
• You were living overseas with parents

In such cases you will need to be able to provide referee cover for the period(s) of residence overseas. The duration of overseas residence and the country of abode will also be taken into account.

Success Profiles  

Success Profiles will enable a fairer and more inclusive method of recruitment by enabling us to assess the range of experiences, abilities, strengths, behaviours and technical/professional skills required for different roles. This flexible approach to recruitment focuses more on finding the right candidate for the specific role. To find out more about Success Profiles to support your application please click here for further guidance.

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We have provided detail of the assessment stages and areas being assessed to help you prepare for completing your application form, and to advise of what will be assessed following this, if you successfully pass the application stage.

Application form stage assessments

Use of Artificial Intelligence (AI)

You must ensure that any evidence submitted as part of your application, including your CV, statement of suitability and behaviour examples, are truthful and factually accurate. Please note that plagiarism can include presenting the ideas and experiences of others, or generated by artificial intelligence, as your own.

Interview stage assessments

There is 1 interview stage for this vacancy.

A Great Place to Work for Veterans

The "Making the Civil Service a Great Place to work for veterans" initiative includes a guaranteed interview scheme to those who meet the minimum criteria to provide eligible former members of the Armed Forces with opportunities to secure rewarding jobs. Allowing veterans to continue to serve their country, and to bring highly skilled individuals with a broad range of experience into the Civil Service in an environment, which recognises and values your previous service in the Armed Forces.
For further details about the initiative and eligibility requirements visit : https://www.gov.uk/government/news/making-the-civil-service-a-great-place-to-work-for-veterans

Redeployment Interview Scheme

Civil Service departments are expected to explore redeployment opportunities before making an individual redundant. The MoJ are committed, as part of the Redeployment Interview Scheme, to providing opportunities to those who are 'at risk of redundancy'.

MoJ are able to offer an interview to eligible candidates who meet the minimum selection criteria, except in a limited number of campaigns. Candidate's will not be eligible for the Redeployment Interview Scheme if they are applying on promotion.

For further information and to apply for this position please see the following link: https://www.jobtrain.co.uk/justicedigital/Job/JobDetail?JobId=496.

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) https://www.gov.uk/settled-status-eu-citizens-families

· 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

Further information on nationality requirements (opens in a new window) https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/nationality-rules