Cyber Security Lead (SOC)

BAE Systems Digital Intelligence is home to 4,500 digital, cyber and intelligence experts. We work collaboratively across 10 countries to collect, connect and understand complex data, so that governments, nation states, armed forces and commercial businesses can unlock digital advantage in the most demanding environments.

Security Consultant

About us

Digital Intelligence operates in multiple countries and is home to over 4,800 world-class data, digital, cyber and intelligence experts within the BAE Systems Group. We work collaboratively to deliver digital expertise to our customers, partners as well as other parts of the Group. Working in partnership with us, organisations including governments, armed forces and commercial businesses can unlock their digital advantage and tackle the evolving challenges of the digital age.

Cyber security consultants are a critical part of our delivery business and provide a diverse range of services to our clients. We are seeking talented people to provide this subject-matter expertise to our customers and grow our existing team. This role will be focussed in the SOC space to assist customers seeking to protect themselves from security risks and implement new security capabilities across a variety of ICT systems.

Role summary

We are looking for a talented and enthusiastic individual with excellent technical and client-facing skills, to act as a Cyber Security lead consultant advising clients on security operations, security improvement plans and developing security capability roadmaps and strategies.   The role will fall within our cyber security consulting business and projects will range from, conducting maturity assessments against propriety and international maturity models for security operations, advising and developing capability led roadmaps and improvement plans and helping client mature cyber security operations

This role is situated within our Government business, based in Canberra, with substantial time on client sites and will require a government security clearance at NV2 minimum, with potential expectation to undergo PV.

Find out more about our award winning Cyber Security solutions: http://www.baesystems.com/en/cybersecurity/solutions/by-business-objective/detect-and-monitor-for-cyber-attacks.

What you’ll be doing

• Responsible for implementing solutions across people, process, data, governance and technology with top-tier Government clients.
• Engaging with the customers to understand their requirements and help design cyber security solutions to meet their needs throughout the design - delivery lifecycle. On client-site you will direct a team (and contribute hands-on) to develop specific policy, process and procedures; advise on capability and technology choices; derive requirements and user stories for the technical teams and develop workforce architectures and training plans.
• Help grow and evolve our delivery capability by documenting the delivery processes, feeding back lessons learned and working with the wider team in establishing best practices and repeatable processes. You will feed back requirements that you have captured during the project continually to product management teams to help to steer the business' product roadmap.
• Work with sales executives, technical project managers, engineers, solution architects, as well as the end-customer. Flexibility in our designs and delivery methodologies is essential to ensure timely delivery to the customer’s satisfaction. You may be required to travel internationally and nationally to work on-site across our client-base.
• Develop an in-depth technical understanding of our Cyber Security product suite, and will build excellent relationships with our customers, such that they see you as the SME and their primary point-of-contact for technical and consultancy matters.
• Responsible for programme delivery by leading teams of consultants and solution architects, providing in depth specialist consultancy to meet the needs of BAE clients. You will ensure that solutions developed within delivery programmes are fit-for-purpose.
• Oversee and assure the implementation of the design in collaboration with other design team members such as Application Architects, Infrastructure Architects, System and Software Designers, Data Architects, Security Architects and Functional Architects.
• Ensure that the design meets key functional and non-functional requirements and will allow the operational and through-life scenarios required for the solution to be satisfied.
• Own and manage solution risks. Work to reduce and mitigate at earliest practical opportunity.
• Lead estimation efforts to rapidly develop an understanding of potential solution costs and delivery timescales including appropriate service regimes for solutions in production operation.
• Work with Delivery Assurance functions to agree how the quality and progress of a given solution delivery should be tracked, acting as an expert resource to support interventions on projects where solution quality or progress has become an issue.

What we’re looking for

Essential: 

• Experience in building and delivering Cyber Security solutions, integrating systems and developing the associated processes and procedures, and an understanding of the cyber security threat landscape.
• Detailed knowledge of Cyber Security product landscape, with core knowledge on Azure and AWS security.
• Previous experience working in a Security Operating Centre in an operations leadership role or as a senior SOC analyst. Alternatively, previous experience as a technical lead building, maturing and maintaining SOC specific systems and applications in multiple programmes.
• Experienced in deriving and updating security use cases for use on SIEM and analytics platforms and onboarding organisations to a SOC. Knowledge of Splunk and Sentinel would be advantageous.
• Experience with working with end users and clients offering advice, guidance and thought leadership.
• Excellent verbal and written communication and client-facing skills, including Microsoft Office suite use (Word/Excel/PowerPoint/Visio), ensuring a clear and professional quality of written materials.
• Time management and organizational skills to independently manage multiple delivery projects concurrently.
• Detail-oriented approach.
• Understanding of IT service management, and experience authoring/directing the development and implementation of Service Management systems including case management solution such as ServiceNow/Jira.
• Thought leadership at senior levels in designing and setting strategy for advanced cyber defence detection systems.

This is a place where you’ll be able to make a real difference. You’ll be part of an inclusive culture that values diversity of thought, rewards integrity, and merit, and where you’ll be empowered to fulfil your potential. We welcome people from all backgrounds and want to make sure that our recruitment processes are as inclusive as possible. If you have a disability or health condition (for example dyslexia, autism, an anxiety disorder etc.) that may affect your performance in certain assessment types, please speak to your recruiter about potential reasonable adjustments.

Please be aware that many roles at BAE Systems are subject to both security and export control restrictions. These restrictions mean that factors such as your nationality, any nationalities you may have previously held, and your place of birth can restrict the roles you are eligible to perform within the organisation.