Network Security Specialist (SME)

Why this job matters

The Cyber Security Ops. Specialist executes a range of workstreams in delivering security solutions including delivering regular risk reporting, coordinating compliance review activities, and identifying operational improvements and organisational vulnerabilities and risks.

What you’ll be doing

1. Executes activities around incident response, security monitoring, threat hunting, security analytics and reporting.
2. Collaborates with vendors, consultants, and third-party service providers to ensure that baseline information security configurations are defined for products deployed across all technology platforms.
3. Mentors other security operations professionals, helping to improve the team's abilities by acting as a technical resource.
4. Champions, continuously develops and shares with team knowledge on emerging trends and changes in security operations.
5. Contributes to crucial relationships across the BT Group delivering efficient and consistent security operations services through continuous improvement opportunities creating defense lines that address growing business needs and a rapidly evolving security and threat landscape.
6. Ensures visibility on issues and gaps resulting from the security monitoring activities and wider capabilities to suggest innovative and efficient ways in addressing incident response.
7. Applies analytics to provide insight to other security leaders in order to enhance policies and processes related to risk management, security programme management, and security governance.
8. Executes continuous and rigorous assessment of current security operations processes and technology to craft enhanced strategy, process, and technology recommendations.
9. Empowers collaborations with security engineering and vulnerability teams to ensure security tooling is providing operations functions with appropriate visibility to detect and respond to security events as well as building processes to better inform on indicators of compromise.
10. Manages the development of baseline reporting metrics to effectively measure the health of the security operations domain and provide executive-level reporting of events, incidents, and trends.
11. Maintains security procedures for products, applications, and platforms, and act as a go-to technical resource for risky or unusual security or compliance matters.

The skills you’ll need

TroubleshootingEscalation ManagementLegal & Regulatory Environment and ComplianceChange ManagementService Level Agreement ManagementStakeholder ManagementConfiguration ManagementAccess ControlData AnalysisIntrusion Detection & AnalysisCustomer Relationship ManagementThreat HuntingDecision MakingTechnical ReportingGrowth MindsetSecurity AssessmentInclusive LeadershipIncident Management

Our leadership standards

Looking in:
Leading inclusively and Safely
I inspire and build trust through self-awareness, honesty and integrity.
Owning outcomes
I take the right decisions that benefit the broader organisation.

Looking out:
Delivering for the customer
I execute brilliantly on clear priorities that add value to our customers and the wider business.
Commercially savvy
I demonstrate strong commercial focus, bringing an external perspective to decision-making.

Looking to the future:
Growth mindset
I experiment and identify opportunities for growth for both myself and the organisation.
Building for the future
I build diverse future-ready teams where all individuals can be at their best.