Social Security Scotland
Principal Cyber Security Analyst (IAM) (4834)
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Job Summary
Join Social Security Scotland as a Principal Cyber Security Analyst - Identity & Access Management (IAM) Manager and play a leading role in protecting the systems, services and information that support millions of people across Scotland.
As a senior leader within our Cyber Security function, you will lead a team of IAM specialists and security professionals responsible for delivering and continually improving the organisation's identity security capabilities. You will provide strategic leadership across Identity Governance and Administration (IGA), Privileged Access Management (PAM), identity lifecycle management, authentication and authorisation services, Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA), identity federation and access governance.
Working in a complex, cloud-first environment, you will shape IAM strategy, manage identity-related risk and ensure our security controls remain effective, resilient and aligned to industry best practice. This is an exciting opportunity to influence organisation-wide security decisions while helping to safeguard the delivery of Scotland's social security services.
Cyber Security Analysts protect the confidentiality, integrity and availability of government information and systems. They provide expert cyber security leadership, manage cyber threats and incident response, influence senior stakeholders, and deliver trusted advice on security controls and best practice. They also oversee cyber security operations, including team leadership, prioritisation, quality assurance, budgeting, recruitment and capability development.
GDD Pay Supplement
This post is part of the Government Digital and Data (GDD) profession and currently attracts a £4,000 annual GDD pay supplement, which is paid monthly. Pay supplements are reviewed regularly.
Responsibilities
Job description
- Lead and develop the Identity and Access Management (IAM) team, establishing governance, standards and performance metrics to drive effective identity security, access control, threat detection, response and continuous capability improvement in line with organisational risk appetite and a cloud-first strategy.
- Own and optimise the organisation's IAM tooling and security platforms, ensuring they are effectively engineered, integrated and maintained to deliver scalable, automated and high-quality identity governance, access management and security monitoring capabilities across the full lifecycle.
- Initiate and influence relationships with and between key stakeholders, taking forward all aspects of IAM and cyber security, acting as a primary point of contact for senior stakeholders and influencers.
- Operate as a focus for cyber security and IAM expertise for the organisation and the wider central government community, providing authoritative advice and guidance on the application and operation of identity, access management and wider cyber security controls.
- Understand the "voice of the customer" and develop mechanisms to proactively sense adoption and usage patterns of technologies and services so that IAM policies, standards and controls align with business and user needs.
- Deliver specific pieces of work resulting from the Cyber Security Strategy, related to IAM, cyber business risk, access control, identity governance and information protection requirements.
- Champion incident management, incident investigation and response policy and/or incident management and investigation processes, procedures and systems, particularly where identity compromise, privileged access or authentication-related risks are concerned.
- Manage the assessment and response to cyber threats to maintain confidentiality, integrity, availability, accountability and relevant compliance, with particular focus on identity-related risks and threats.
- Deliver comprehensive risk assessments for complicated or novel IAM and cyber security scenarios, using methodologies appropriate to the situation, and understand in detail how risk assessment outputs dovetail into wider risk management processes.
- Lead organisational teams in various stages of security assessment, design, implementation and review activities, ensuring compliance with relevant policies, procedures and guidelines.
- Develop cyber security and IAM policies, standards and guidelines appropriate to business, technology and legal requirements and in accordance with best professional and industry practice.
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Person specification
Success Profiles
We use an assessment framework called ‘Success Profiles’ which lists the elements we test and provides detailed descriptions of each. Find out more about the framework here.
For this post, the following Success Profile elements will be assessed:
Experience
- Experience leading teams and developing and operationalising Identity and Access Management (IAM) capabilities, for example Identity Governance and Administration (IGA), Privileged Access Management (PAM), Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA), identity lifecycle management, authentication and authorisation services, identity federation and access governance processes; or experience identifying the need for, and implementing, new security operating procedures and practices to meet changing requirements.
- Experience enabling an organisation to deliver balanced and cost-effective risk management decisions on situations with complex scope or significant risk, ensuring risk is embedded into corporate governance through the effective reporting and assessment of all levels of risk.
Behaviours
- Communicating and Influencing (Level 4)
- Changing and Improving (Level 4)
You can find out more about Success Profiles Behaviours here
Technical / Professional Skills
This role is aligned to Principal Cyber Security Analyst within the Government Digital and Data Profession.
These skills will be tested during the Technical Assessment if you are successful at sift stage. They will not be assessed at application stage. Please review the following to understand the skill expectations: Cyber security: operations - gov.scot
Benefits
- Annual Leave - You will receive 25 days annual leave on joining us. This will increase to 30 days after four full years of service. You will also have 11.5 public and privilege days of leave every year. We also offer Flexi-time. Any extra hours you've worked can be taken as leave when suitable.
- A Civil Service Pension - This job comes with a Civil Service pension. New joiners to the Civil Service will join a career average pension scheme as standard. Read more here - www.civilservicepensionscheme.org.uk.
- Healthy work life balance - We can offer the possibility of full-time, part-time, term-time, and job shares. We also encourage flexible working.
- Discounts - You can enjoy a vast range of retail, travel and lifestyle discounts through our benefit scheme.
- Personal support for you - Our Employee Assistance Programme gives you confidential, independent information and guidance 24/7.
- Volunteering special leave - Up to six days paid special leave a year for volunteering. We support our staff to help causes important to them.
- Great locations - Our bright and modern offices in the heart of Dundee and Glasgow have been designed with staff in mind. Both locations are ideal for public transport.
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Selection process details
Expected Timeline (subject to change)
- Sift - w/c 5th October
- Interview – w/c 26th October
Location
- In Person in either Dundee or Glasgow
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Successful candidates must undergo a basic (or equivalent) criminal record check.
Successful candidates must meet the security requirements before they can be appointed. The level of security needed is [security check](opens in a new window). See our vetting charter (opens in a new window).
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Nationality requirements
This Job Is Broadly Open To The Following Groups:
- UK nationals
- nationals of the Republic of Ireland
- nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
- nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
- nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
- individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
- Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service
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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.
Diversity and Inclusion
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