As an Information Security Specialist, GS-0080-12, you will:

• Serves as the Wing Information Protection Program Manager executing/enforcing all operational, functional, and mission assurance aspects of the program.
• Formulates wing program goals, plans, policy implementation guidelines, procedures, and work plans dealing with the development and operation of wing-wide information security programs and activities and provides technical and administrative direction to subordinate wing information security personnel. Interprets National Guard Bureau (NGB), Air National Guard (ANG), Air Force (AF), Department of Defense (DoD), and other federal regulations for information security processes as they apply and are implemented within the Wing.
• Demonstrates expert knowledge of the information security field that is necessary to provide effective guidance, training, and direction to subordinate squadron level organizations/activities/units. Establishes and maintains liaisons with senior personnel at wing, NGB, ANG, and MAJCOM.
• Prepares information security review reports and provides recommendations and advice.
• Analyzes and evaluates the classification downgrading, declassification, and destruction programs.
• Advises installation project engineers, project managers, command mission leads, action officers, and effected operational officers of their responsibility to provide proper classified management guidance and specification requirements during performance of respective duties.
• Oversees, directs, monitors, and conducts regulatory and non-regulatory security surveys and Information Security Program Reviews (ISPRs) to monitor and enforce implementation and oversight of DoD Information, Personnel, and Industrial Security Programs.
• Evaluates compliance of activities with complex security requirements, identifies deficiencies, and ensures corrective action is identified for each deficiency found.
• Prepares ISPR reports and briefs commanders on requirements and recommendations.
• Makes information protection risk assessments and risk management/mitigation strategies/recommendations based on intelligence-derived threat issues that may require deviations from or synthesis of policies.
• Delivers, Security Awareness and Education Programs to satisfy security education and training requirements for all assigned organizations.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

As a General Engineer (Program Manager), you will:

• Assists with or manages projects/programs in an industrial setting using manufacturing processes and collaborates with other professionals on efforts to understand the manufacturing process and how it affects product quality, and identifies problems, develops solutions, or implements process improvements within a manufacturing environment.
• Performs program management duties under the guidance of the Program Management Team Lead.
• Evaluates contractor production support programs and recommends opportunities for improvement.
• Participates and contributes to the development of the annual Corporate Performance
  Evaluation Plan for the M&O Contractor.
• Administers, conducts, and coordinates long range planning studies on behalf of the NNSA to assure that advance resource requirements are identified and consistent with future workload projections.
• Resolves equipment and/or manufacturing process issues and generate a corrective action plan.

SOC (Security Operations Centre) Level 3 Analyst

Reference Number - 79158

This SOC (Security Operations Centre) Level 3 Analyst position will report to the Cyber Security Operations Manager and will work within the Information Systems directorate based in our Crawley or Ipswich office. You will be a permanent employee.

You will attract a salary of £75,000.00 and a bonus of 7.5%. This role can also offer blended working after probationary period (6 months) - 3 days in the office and 2 remote

Close Date: 16/09/2024

We also provide the following additional benefits

• Annual Leave
• Personal Pension Plan - Personal contribution rates of 4% or 5% (UK Power Networks will make a corresponding contribution of 8% or 10%)
• Tenancy Loan Deposit scheme
• Tax efficient benefits: cycle to work scheme
• Season ticket loan
• Occupational Health support
• Switched On - scheme providing discount on hundreds of retailers products.

DIMENSIONS:

• People -Work collaboratively in a team of circa 14 permanent and temporary cyber security operations staff. Mentor Level 1 and Level 2 SOC Analysts, providing guidance and training.
• Suppliers - regular interaction with technical resources provided by the outsourced Cyber Security Managed Service provider and cyber security tooling vendors.

Principle Responsibilities:

1. Advanced Threat Hunting: analyse and assess multiple/complex threat intelligence sources and indicators of compromise (IOC) to identify new threat patterns, vulnerabilities and anomalies and, using this intelligence information and the available tooling, search the UKPN environment to find and remove 'hidden' threats, which may have initially evaded our detective controls defences.
2. Policy Development: develop and create SOC policies, technical standards and procedure documentation in consideration of current industry best practice.
3. Log Management: work with our MSSP and service owners to ensure onboarding of all log sources into the SIEM solution, create alert use cases to correlate suspicious activities across assets (endpoints, network, applications) and environments (on-premises, cloud) to identify patterns of anomalous activity.
4. Incident Response: improve security incident response playbooks and processes, lead the response to escalated security alerts and events and high-severity security incidents, provide senior level response activities such as incident tracking, communication with partners, overseeing remediation and recovery actions, reporting and applying root cause analysis and lessons.
5. Security Orchestration, Automation, and Response (SOAR): support and develop UKPN's SOAR platform, produce new workflows for automation using SOAR tools, automating our response to common attack types and enhancing operational playbooks to allow efficient correlation and enrichment of security events.
6. Digital Forensics: identify, analyse and report on serious cyber security incidents. Using experience combined with industry tools and techniques, perform forensic analysis against information gathered from multiple data sources (endpoint event logs, SIEM data, dashboards, enterprise applications, network traffic patterns), and present consistent and reasoned action and response activities to ensure threats are contained and eradicated from UKPN's network systems.
7. Cyber Crisis Scenario Testing: participate in regular cyber-attack simulation exercises to test the organisation's resilience to cyber threats and improve its cyber defences and attack preparedness.

Qualifications:

• Considerable experience (commensurate to that of a subject matter expert) in a SOC Level 2 or 3 role with evidence of advanced threat hunting and incident response.
• Must have specific SOC training or qualification or academic equivalent such as bachelor's degree in the field of Computer Science, Cybersecurity and IT, or related subject.
• Ideally hold an industry recognised information security qualification such as CISSP, AZ-500, including knowledge of industry best-practice GIAC/GCIA/GCIH, or CompTIA Advanced Security Practitioner (CASP+), Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH) and/or SIEM-specific training and certification.
• Experience or knowledge in log correlation and analysis, including chain of custody and forensics investigations and requirements.
• An understanding of compliance and regulatory frameworks such as National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) Cyber Assessment Framework (CAF) and SO/IEC 27001/27002, GDPR, CIS, NIST.
• Working knowledge of security technologies including SIEM, SOAR, EDR, /AV, IDS/IPS, NAC, AD, DLP, Web Filtering, Email Filtering, Behavioural Analytics, TCP/IP Protocols, network analysis, and network/security applications.
• Detailed knowledge of SIEM and SOAR solutions, Identity and Access Management and Data Loss Prevention technologies preferably including FortiSIEM, Q-Radar, McAfee Web Gateway, McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator, Darktrace and Microsoft Defender. Microsoft Sentinel experience an advantage.

We have a great opportunity for a Site Manager working with a fit out contractor near Central London.

The Project is highly sensitive and valued circa £4M and is a CAT B D&B Fit Out project. You will be the number 1 Site Manager on site and responsible for managing the site and will be reporting to the Project Manager daily. Whilst managing the site, you must also be maintaining a high standard of health & safety while ensuring the project is completed on time and within budget.

The ideal Site Manager must have:

• Have CAT A and CAT B Fit Out experience
• NPPV3 security cleared - able to work in government and police buildings
• Longevity in freelance roles with some of the big contractors in the industry
• Procore Experience
• Have experience in delivering commercial fit outs
• Major experience in M+E
• Experience and understanding of the floor plate of the building
• Understanding of programmes and ability to handle minutes efficiently
• Experience successfully running fit out projects as a Site Manager on commercial projects
• Interpersonal skills so you can get on with the rest of the team
• SMSTS, First Aid, Fire Marshall and Black Card/NVQ Level 6 certs

What's in it for you as the Site Manager on this project?

• Opportunity to work with a highly respected contractor
• Competitive day rate
• An opportunity for on-going freelance work with an established Fit out contractor
• Excellent team culture

Apply today or for more information email your CV to lbrushett@frlondon.co.uk or call 077 6496 6932

Overview of the position:

As the sole agency supplier to the HM Prison Service for the provision of maintenance trades & support operatives, this is a long-term temporary contract, with a starting rate of £13.10 including holiday, £11.44 excluding holiday pay.

The Contractor Escort role is in a unique working environment with a strong sense of team working. Always in demand, you could benefit from long-term contracts and there is also potential, once trained, to work in other prisons both locally and nationally.

Purpose of the Contractor Escort role:

As part of the security team you will be responsible for assisting in the safety and security of the establishment where your duties will include escorting building contractors. You will ensure the safety and security of the visitors, staff and prisoners within a Prison establishment, while persons from outside of NOMS are on site. You will also ensure that no unauthorised persons or items enter the establishment.

Experience:

No formal qualifications or previous experience is required for this role.
The nature of the role requires candidates to be security conscious and able to challenge potential compromises and risks, you will also need to be reliable and consistent, level headed and have exceptional interpersonal skills. Successful applicants will have a background in customer services or security, and will be assessed based on the following competencies: Acting with integrity, respecting others, Building relationships and team working, communicating effectively, developing self and others.

Full training is provided by the establishment/ department. Training time will be paid at the standard hourly rate.

Security Clearance required:

All applicants will be subject to the HM Prison Service Security Clearance procedure which can take up to 4 weeks, this can include a Disclosure Barring Service (DBS) check. You must hold a Valid Passport or Birth Certificate & Photo Driving Licence in your current address. All applicants must be able to provide details of 3 years of ex-employer references.


If you're interested in this role, click 'apply now' to forward an up-to-date copy of your CV, or call Liam now on 01782 958912.
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