Security Operations Lead

If you’d like to be considered for this opportunity we encourage you to apply promptly to avoid disappointment as if applications are high the role will close before the closing date given.

Security Operations Lead

If you’d like to be considered for this opportunity, we encourage you to apply promptly to avoid disappointment as if applications are high the role will close before the closing date given below.

Berkshire

Working pattern: AWE operates a 9-day working fortnight. We will consider flexible working requests so that your work may fit in with your lifestyle. Just let us know your preferred working pattern on your application.

Let us introduce the role

The Security Operations Lead is responsible for the end-to-end delivery and continuous improvement of security services. This includes managing day-to-day security operations, ensuring compliance, and leading the response to security incidents. The Security Operations Lead will drive initiatives to strengthen the organisations security posture while maintaining high levels of service performance.

Key Accountabilities:

Service Delivery Excellence: Accountable for ensuring that security services are delivered according to established SLAs, meeting business requirements, and security standards.

Incident and Issue Management: Accountable for overseeing the investigation and resolution of security incidents, ensuring effective communication to stakeholders.

Service Integration: Accountable for collaborating with the Secure pillar to ensure seamless integration of security services into broader IT and business operations.

Compliance and Risk Management: Accountable for ensuring that security operations adhere to company policies, industry regulations, and best practices.

Third-Party Security Partner Management: Accountable for managing and overseeing third-party security service providers, ensuring contractual obligations, performance standards, and security requirements are consistently met.

Stakeholder Management: Accountable for engaging with business units and stakeholders to ensure alignment of security services with business priorities.

Continuous Service Improvement: Accountable for driving continuous improvement initiatives to enhance service delivery processes and outcomes.

Performance Reporting and Communication: Accountable for providing regular reports on service performance, risks, and improvement plans to senior leadership.

Leadership and Coaching: Accountable for leading, coaching and developing a team at a local level to deliver team and personal objectives safely and securely to meet our operational plans.

Health and Safety: Accountable for maintaining and promoting high personal standards in environment, safety, health, security and quality and being a great team player.

Key Responsibilities:

Manage the day-to-day operation of security services depending on specialisation, including areas such as monitoring, incident response, threat intelligence, and overall security infrastructure.

Coordinate with the Secure Pillar to ensure cross-functional collaboration for the delivery of integrated security services.

Take a lead role in the resolution of security incidents, ensuring that the proper incident response protocols are followed, and post-incident reviews are conducted.

Ensure that incidents are documented, root cause analysis is performed, and lessons learned are incorporated into future operations.

Regularly monitor and report on security service performance, highlighting any deviations from agreed-upon SLAs or targets.

Manage relationships with external vendors and service providers related to security services.

Ensure that third-party services meet security standards and are compliant with internal policies and regulations.

Ensure proper risk assessments and testing are done before changes are introduced.

Manage transitions from the Change Pillar coordinating with relevant teams to ensure smooth implementation.

Maintain accurate service documentation, runbooks, and operational procedures.

Collaborate with relevant teams to ensure security operations contribute effectively to business continuity and disaster recovery planning.

Maintain comprehensive documentation and evidence to support internal and external audits, ensuring ongoing compliance with regulatory and policy requirements.

Responsible for undertaking other duties as reasonably required from time to time by line and task management.

Some reasons we think you’ll love it here:

AWE has a wide range of benefits to suit you. These include:

9-day working fortnight – meaning you get every other Friday off work, in addition to 270 hours of annual leave.

Market leading contributory pension scheme (we will pay between 9% and 13% of your pensionable pay depending on your contributions).

Family friendly policies: Maternity Leave - 39 Weeks Full Pay and Paternity Leave - 4 Weeks Full Pay.

Opportunities for Professional Career Development including funding for annual membership of a relevant professional body.

Employee Assistance Programme and Occupational Health Services.

Life Assurance (4 x annual salary).

Discounts – access to savings on a wide range of everyday spending.

Special Leave Policy including paid time off for volunteering, public service (including reserve forces) and caring.

The 'Working at AWE' page on our website is where you can find full details in the 'AWE Benefits Guide'.

All candidates must be willing and able to obtain and maintain the security clearance required for the role.

Next steps:

Everyone who works at AWE brings unique skills and perspectives to the table. We recognise that great people don’t always ‘tick every box’. That’s why we focus on your potential, your fit with our values, your transferable skills as well as your experience. Even if you don’t meet every point above, but you feel that this role and AWE are a great fit for you, please go ahead and apply, we’d love to receive your application.

Next steps:

Everyone who works at AWE brings unique skills and perspectives to the table. We recognise that great people don’t always ‘tick every box’. That’s why we focus on your potential, your fit with our values, your transferable skills as well as your experience. Even if you don’t meet every point above, but you feel that this role and AWE are a great fit for you, please go ahead and apply, we’d love to receive your application.

Important things you need to know:

• We encourage you to apply promptly to avoid disappointment if applications are high and the role therefore closes.
• You will need to obtain and maintain the necessary security clearance for the role. This will be funded by AWE. The nature of our work does mean you need to be a British Citizen who has been resident in the UK for the past 5 years in order to apply for SC clearance and 10 years for DV.
• We want you to feel comfortable and able to shine during our recruitment process. Please let us know on your application form if you need any adjustments/accommodations during the process.
• Our interviews typically take place over Teams and for most roles are a 1 stage process.

Our ambition is to create workplaces where we recognise and celebrate differences, encourage diverse contributions and our employees feel able to be themselves at work. We strive to create a genuine culture of openness and inclusion and encourage diverse applicants. Any inclusion information you provide will be stored in accordance with GDPR and kept separate from your application form and CV, and the information will not be shared with anyone involved in interviewing or making hiring decisions.

Please note that you must be a British Citizen to apply for a role with us.

About AWE

If you’re looking for a role with excitement, intrigue and something that really makes a difference then now is the time to join AWE. We are at the start of a once in a generation – possibly two generations – programme to design and produce a replacement warhead for the UK’s continuous at sea deterrent. We will do this while continuing to deliver the Trident programme as well as managing ambitious state-of-the-art capital and construction projects – some of which have never been done before. Find out more on our website.

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