Cyber Security Specialist

Why this role matters
The Mobile Cloud Core Operations team is responsible for the support, operation and maintenance of the new Mobile Core. Working in the Service Platforms area as a Cyber Security Specialist, you will be part of the Mobile Cloud Core Operations Team leading security for operations. You will be responsible for daily security operations, integrating and testing security solutions, investigating security incidents, collaborate with other engineering teams and contributing to the overall security of the Mobile Core.
You'll have the following responsibilities
• A senior member of the team responsible for activities around incident response, security monitoring, threat hunting, security analytics and reporting.
• Leads employees, vendors, consultants, and third-party service providers to ensure that baseline information security configurations are defined for products deployed across all
• technology platforms.
• Contributes to crucial relationships across the BT Group delivering efficient and consistent security operations services through continuous improvement opportunities creating defence lines that address growing business needs and a rapidly evolving security and threat landscape.
• Helps to ensure visibility on issues and gaps resulting from the security monitoring activities and wider capabilities to suggest innovative and faster ways in addressing incident response.
• Champions, continuously develops and shares with team knowledge on emerging trends and changes in security operations.
• Coaches peers and more junior members of the team, to develop capabilities and ensure performance through upskilling, development and recruitment.
• Coordinates 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.
• Contributes to reporting metrics to effectively measure the health of the security operations domain and provide executive-level reporting of events, incidents,
• and trends.
• Maintains security procedures for products, applications, and platforms, and act as a go-to technical resource for risky or unusual security or compliance matters.
You'll have the following skills and experience
Skills
• Ability to analyse requirements, assess demand and capacity and implement plans to deliver objectives.
• Experience of managing relationships with suppliers and third parties at a senior stakeholder level.
• Ability to review, translate and respond to risks and vulnerabilities that may impact our telco environment.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to explain complex and technical security matters technical and non-technical stakeholders at senior levels and across multiple disciplines.
• Ability to apply 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.
Experience
• Experience in Cyber Security and information security in corporate environments
• Experience in cyber and information security regulations, standards, and frameworks (e.g., TSA, ISO27001, NIST, GDPR)
• Experience with risk management and incident response
• Proven experience in working across a multiple vendor Mobile Network Environment.
Benefits
• Competitive salary
• 10% on target bonus
• BT Pension scheme, minimum 5% Employee contribution, BT contribution 10%
• 25 days annual leave (not including bank holidays), increasing with service
• Huge range of flexible benefits including cycle to work, healthcare, season ticket loan
• World-class training and development opportunities
• Option to join BT Shares Saving schemes.
• Discounted broadband, mobile and TV packages
• Access to 100's of retail discounts including the BT shop
Our leadership standards
Looking in:
Leading inclusively
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.
About us
BT is part of BT Group, along with EE, Openreach, and Plusnet.
Millions of people rely on us every day to help them live their lives, power their businesses, and keep their public services running. We connect friends to family, clients to colleagues, people to possibilities. We keep the wheels of business spinning, and the emergency services responding.
We value diversity and celebrate difference. As Philip Jansen, our CEO, says 'We embed diversity and inclusion into everything that we do. It's fundamental to our purpose: we connect for good.'
We all stick to the same values: Personal, Simple, and Brilliant. From day one, you'll get stuck in to tough challenges, pitch in with ideas, make things happen. But you won't be alone: we'll be there with help and support, learning and development.
This is your chance to make a real difference to the world: to be part of the digital transformation of countless lives and businesses. Grab it.
A FEW POINTS TO NOTE:
Although these roles are listed as full-time, if you're a job share partnership, work reduced hours, or any other way of working flexibly, please still get in touch.
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