Starting Salary: £48,530 per annum
Hours: Full time (37 hours per week)
Enhanced Annual Leave: 25 days per annum (plus bank holidays & Christmas shutdown)
Annualised Hours: Working extra hours means taking extra leave!
Are you looking for an exciting and varied role, where you will be working with a team of highly technical staff who are working to effectively and efficiently deliver joined-up programmes, projects, policies. and initiatives? Where you are integral to the risk mitigation of the councils' data?
Are you trained in and/or experienced in the operation with at least two security vendor's software, hardware or services or holding a relevant and current professional ICT security qualification? Do you have knowledge of and proven ability to work to standards including ITIL, ISO 27001, ISO 27002 Data Protection Act, UK General Data Protection Regulations, and other legal and regulatory frameworks relevant to the role?
If you answered yes to the questions above, then you should apply for this opportunity at South Oxfordshire and Vale of White Horse District Councils, where you will:
- Be responsible for the research, review, investigate, develop, and implement new technologies to maintain and enhance the technical security of the councils' network in line with business requirements, best practice, and regulatory requirements.
- Work closely with programme and project managers advising on projects that have technical security risks.
- Enforce and improve existing standards across the councils, reacting to national standards and where applicable write these new standards in to council policies.
- Provide expert domain knowledge for dealing with security incidents, trigger investigations and provide reports to the IT & Digital Service Manager.
- Support the implementation of the councils' strategy and policy for technical disaster recovery. Provide technical advice to the councils on disaster recovery and business continuity requirements.
A full list of the important duties this role provides can be found attached within the Cyber Security Officer job description.
Thank you for taking the time to read our advert, we look forward to receiving your application.
Closing date: 12 September 2024
Interview dates: Week commencing 23 September 2024
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