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Principal Cyber Security Risk Manager
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Location
Bristol, Swansea, Leeds, Nottingham, Newcastle, Oldham (Chadderton), Birmingham (Garretts Green) or Uxbridge.
Salary
A GBP 57,515 per annum
Vacancy Type
Permanent, Flexible working, Full-time, Job share, Part-time
Closing Date
28th of September 2026
About the Role
The DVSA are continuing to strengthen security capability across the business. This role will form a part of a growing Cyber function continuing to embed and maintain an assurance and response function protecting our Services and customer data.
Our work also supports the DVSA Data Strategy which has recently been refreshed. This sets the direction for making the Agency an evidence-based and data-driven organisation whilst maintaining an appropriate level of security of our services and data.
You will work with the wider Security function as well as supporting Service Owners and multi-disciplinary teams to ensure that security is built into the service development lifecycle and strategic planning. You will be responsible for providing the consolidated risk picture for the Products within that Service and recommending risk acceptance aligning with defined risk appetites. You will lead a small service group team of security professionals to support the assurance as well as engage as necessary with the Enterprise Architecture processes via the Security Architecture function to influence pattern adoption.
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Benefits
Joining Our Department Comes With Many Benefits, Including
- Employer pension contribution of 28.97% of your salary.
- 25 days annual leave, increasing by 1 day each year of service (up to a maximum of 30 days annual leave), plus 8 bank holidays a privilege day for the King’s birthday.
- Flexible working options where we encourage a great work-life balance.
Job Description
Your responsibilities will include, but aren’t limited to:
- Lead and undertake risk management activities against the hardest or most novel scenarios, while applying the fundamental principles of risk management to a range of complex scenarios, and lead regulatory or legislative compliance activities.
- Guide and direct specialist activities of others, actively promoting development in the applicable skills, providing leadership to other risk managers, and sharing best practice widely across government, the public sector, and industry.
- Lead the analysis and derivation of complex security needs.
- Lead Cyber Security related risk assessments and other expert risk management activities, including providing guidance on establishing the organisation’s Cyber Security-related governance arrangements.
- Provide guidance to ensure ongoing confidence that fundamental organisational security needs have been met, including integrating a range of assurance approaches and techniques to give continued confidence to the risk, service or system owner.
- Shape leadership decision-making through:
- effective reporting and communication regarding the effectiveness of security processes across an organisation
- providing recommendations to highly complex problems
- acting as an SME for complex cyber risk management concerns, issues and problems
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Great line management is important to us as an organisation, and we will equip and support line managers to develop the skills set out in the Civil Service Line Management Standards.
Person Specification
Required Experience
- A Chartered Cyber Professional or be willing to work towards becoming Chartered.
- Demonstrate experience in cloud security across at least one platform of AWS or Azure and be willing to undertake formal training and certification.
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