Defence Cyber Electromagnetic Force (DCEMF) – Digital Enterprise Operating Authority Cyber Compliance SME

Defence Cyber Electromagnetic Force (DCEMF) help protect the UK's critical Defence digital capabilities. As a Digital Enterprise Operating Authority Cyber Compliance SME, you will provide specialist cyber security advice, assess risks, support assurance activities and help ensure compliance across complex Defence systems. This is an exciting opportunity to work at the forefront of Defence cyber operations, influencing real-world outcomes that support UK Defence. Suitable for candidates with experience in cyber security, governance, risk management or compliance who are looking to develop their career in a challenging and rewarding environment.

This position is advertised at 37 hours per week.

• Be responsible for managing your own projects, alongside supporting your team with their assigned projects, under MOD Network Defensive Cyber Policy.
• Lead and support the DEOA CC team by providing technical advice for new and current projects within the MOD community, other Government departments and industry specialists, on policy-based cyber defence requirements.
• Provide support to DEOA CC and the Digital Enterprise Authority Board (DEAB) for projects seeking authority to operate on the MOD digital enterprise. Working with projects, Service Transition Officers (STO) and the DEAB team to provide project position and updates prior to the board, feeding into technical documentation and providing high level statements against requests for ongoing compliance to MOD policy.
• Lead and ensure the creation of Knowledge Base Articles (KBAs) for projects undergoing MOD policy compliance; ensuring all projects submit their required documentation.
• Ensure MOD Network Defensive Cyber Policy and linked technical guidance is maintained and updated, as new Cyber Defence capabilities are enabled as technologies change.
• Assist and support the coordination of the DEOA CC responses for MOD risk balance cases and network joining requests, ensuring adherence to cyber operational directives contained in current MOD Policy
• Working with the DEOA CC Deputy Head, define the cyber technical requirements for MOD and industry gateways.
• As required, lead on technical reviews of architectural documentation (high- and low-level design documents) to ensure projects will be compliant with policy.
• Working with DEOA CC Control to develop, maintain, and enhance relevant businesses and ways of working between DEOA CC team, Joint Cyber Defence area, the STO and the DEOA Governance Team. This must include engagement and co-ordination with the Defensive Cyber Contractor.
• Build on relationships within the Joint Cyber Defence business area and with key stakeholders, to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of system and service delivery and sustainment.
• Line manage civilian and military personnel.
• Deputise for DEOA CC Deputy Head when required.

Open to UK nationals only.

This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours, Experience and Technical skills.

To apply please complete the CV template provided on the CS Jobs dashboard, ensuring it highlights your relevance to the essential criteria listed in the person specification.

It is essential that all applicants provide a personal statement (max. 1250 words), assessed against your responses to the questions listed below.

Each one will be scored and make up part of your overall score to assess your suitability to be invited to interview:

• Demonstrate when you have used your communication skills to clearly explain a technical issue to a non-technical audience. Evidence how you have delivered and ensured understanding and the methods you may have used.
• Describe your experience and/or understanding of how risk can be managed effectively.
• Demonstrate your prioritisation skills, whilst working under pressure, where you’ve had to meet time-bound targets whilst also leading on /managing other tasks or teams.
• Describe your experience of working in an IT, cyber security or enterprise/solution architecture role.
• As required by this position, please confirm you hold sole UK nationality only.

At sift, Candidates will be assessed against their CV, Statement of suitability and the following:

Behaviours:

• Delivering at Pace
• Leadership

Technical Skills

• Security Architecture
• Applied Security Capability
• Information Risk and Asset Management
• Threat Understanding

Applications will be sifted on all Success Profile elements, but in the event of a high number of applications, the sift will be conducted on your CV & Statement of suitability only

Interviews

We’ll assess you against these behaviours, technical skills and experience during the interview process:

Behaviours:

• Leadership
• Delivering at Pace

Technical Skills

• Security Architecture
• Applied Security Capability
• Information Risk and Asset Management
• Threat Understanding

The Government Security Profession Career Framework and the Security Architect role used in this vacancy can be found at: Government Security Profession career framework.

The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.

As a result of the changes to the UK immigration rules which came into effect on 1 January 2021, the Ministry of Defence will only offer sponsorship for a skilled worker visa under the points-based system, where a role has been deemed to be business critical. This role does not meet that category, and we will not sponsor a visa. It is therefore NOT open to applications from those who will require sponsorship under the points-based system.

Should you apply for this role and be found to require sponsorship, your application will be rejected and any provisional offer of employment withdrawn.

The Ministry of Defence requires all candidates who are successful at interview to declare any outside interests. These declarations will be discussed with successful candidates following the interview process and before a formal offer of employment is made, as some outside interests may not be compatible with MOD civilian roles. This will not, in the majority of cases, prevent employment in MOD, but it is a measure that must be taken to ensure that appropriate mitigations can be put in place to manage any potential, perceived or actual conflicts of interest from the first day of employment.

The Ministry of Defence adopts a zero-tolerance approach to unacceptable behaviours, which includes bullying, harassment, sexual harassment, discrimination, and victimisation. You will not be eligible and will not be considered for this post if you have been dismissed from a role for such unacceptable behaviours within the last five years. This will also apply if you resign or otherwise leave a role but, because of an adverse decision, would have been dismissed for gross misconduct had you continued in that employment. Pre-employment checks will be carried out.

Cyber & Specialist Operations Command (CSOC) generates and operates specialist capabilities, ready to fight across all domains to make the UK secure at home and strong abroad.

Always on, we are across every UK operation, delivering the capabilities you don’t usually see - or those you can’t.

From cyber warriors and medics to intelligence analysts, special forces, educators, and Defence attachés, our collective expertise delivers the warfighting edge Defence needs to deter threats and secure the nation today and prepare for tomorrow.

CSOC unites Defence’s cyber and specialist capabilities under a single, military command alongside the Royal Navy, British Army, and the Royal Air Force - acting as the UK’s fourth Military Command. For more information, please see here.’

Cyber and Specialist Operations Command (CSOC) is going through a significant transformation programme which aims to design the way in which the new Military Command conducts its business and delivers for Defence and the nation. As a consequence of this, posts within CSOC are/or may become subject to review and potential changes as we continuously improve across the period of the transformation programme. These changes may be minor or could be more substantive and will generate new opportunities. Throughout, the Command’s transformation programme is committed to following the MOD’s framework on managing and supporting people through the change process and places an emphasis on early and open consultation and engagement with the Command’s personnel and Trade Unions.

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