58382 - Senior TechOps Engineer
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Senior TechOps Engineer
Location: National
Closing Date: 30th May 2022
Interviews: 17th June 2022
Grade: SEO
Salary: £41,747 - £47,591 London, £36,049 - £41,095 National
*We are currently offering hybrid working which includes 2 days per week in your local office. Office locations can be found here
The Role
We’re recruiting for a Senior TechOps Engineer here at MoJ Digital & Technology, to be part of our warm and collaborative SOC (Security Operations Centre) team.
The Cyber Security TechOps Engineers sit alongside the infrastructure teams; supporting the architecture and environment that they are helping to build and support. You’ll be implementing, maintaining and configuring security tools and platforms; creating policy changes, completing constant monitoring, preparing status reports and identifying / resolving issues.
To help picture your life at MoJ D&T please take a look at our blog and our Digital and Technology strategy 2025
Key Responsibilities:
The Security Operations Engineering area will consist of the following remit;
- Implementation and oversight of security tools that provide insight into the MOJ’s security environment.
- Closely collaborate with the Cyber Assistance Team’s consultancy arm to provide technical support and guidance.
- Act as the technical leads and SME on project teams, providing advice, knowledge sharing, and technical assistance to other sections of the MOJ's digital estates.
Responsibilities include:
- Develop and evolve security for new/existing systems.
- Assisting and advising on ensuring best practice is carried out throughout the development life cycle.
- Assisting in the development of a training framework to raise in-team skill sets.
- Using scripting or tools, automate our current manual process minimise human effort
- Increase cybersecurity awareness by creating best practice guides and contributing to SecOps quarterly newsletter
- Provide advice or assistance for colleagues with security related issues
- Ensure critical or high severity events and incidents are not allowed to propagate further and major incident handling is initiated
Additional responsibilities will eventually include:
- Develop content to accurately detect cybersecurity incidents and intrusions (SIEM Content Engineer) -
- Use automation to improve operations at both a technical/infrastructure level as well as at a SOC/human layer (Automation Engineer)
- Perform regular health checks on SIEM components.
- Upgrade SIEM components as needed
- Work closely with D&T Services to ensure that their log sources (eg Windows/Linux Servers, databases, Firewalls, VPN, web Proxy, mail gateway, intrusion prevention systems, cloud platforms, custom logs, etc.) feed into the SIEM.
- Provide advice and support to D&T Services on how to configure their log sources to send useful events to the SIEM.
- Verify log sources feed into the SIEM correctly.
- Support the D&T SOC on incident response and digital forensic (DFIR) projects, where required, e.g. querying and exporting log data, building rules to detect in-progress attacks, etc.
If this feels like an exciting challenge, something you are enthusiastic about, and want to join our team please read on and apply!
Benefits
- 37 hours per week and flexible working options including working from home, working part-time, job sharing, or working compressed hours.
- We are committed to nurturing our staff and provide lots of training and development opportunities with learning platforms such as: Linux Academy, O’Reilly, Pluralsight, Microsoft Learning, Civil Service Learning, GDS Academy, etc.
- 10% dedicated time to learning and development with a budget of £1000 a year per person
- Generous civil service pension based on defined benefit scheme, with employer contributions of 26-30% depending on salary.
- 25 days leave (plus bank holidays) and 1 privilege day usually taken around the Queens’ birthday. 5 additional days of leave once you have reached 5 years of service.
- Compassionate maternity, adoption, and shared parental leave policies, with up to 26 weeks leave at full pay, 13 weeks with partial pay, and 13 weeks further leave. And maternity support/paternity leave at full pay for 2 weeks, too!
- Wellbeing support including access to the Calm app.
- Nurturing professional and interpersonal networks including those for Careers & Childcare, Gender Equality, PROUD and SPIRIT
- Bike loans up to £2500 and secure bike parking (subject to availability and location)
- Season ticket loans, childcare vouchers and eye-care vouchers.
- 5 days volunteering paid leave.
- Free membership to BCS, the Chartered Institute for IT.
- Some offices may have a subsidised onsite Gym.
Person Specification
Essential
- Experience in security operations and administration (SecOps or DevSecOps) experience
- Hands-on experience with any SIEM product in a mid- to senior-level role
- Scripting experience – Powershell, Bash or equivalent
- High level of proven delivery ability with AWS and Azure technologies
- Knowledge of security technologies (IDS/IPS/IP Firewall/WAF)
- Security clearance SC or eligibility to be security cleared
- Proven ability to work and manage within a team environment and contribute to the overall progression of the SOC
- The ability to provide and maintain high level knowledge with internal and external stakeholders over various platforms
- Excellent oversight of the entire organisation with particular attention to interactions between business areas
Essential Technical requirements (Good knowledge of)
- Cloud Technologies (Azure, AWS, G-Suite)
- Office 365
- Elastic Technologies (ELK Stack)
Desirable Technical requirements
- Azure Sentinel
- Hands on Azure security configuration and Scripting skills
- Demonstrable experience and execution of security automation
- Knowledge of cybersecurity architecture, engineering, and/or SOC work experience (monitoring, detection, incident response, forensics)
You will be required to meet the requirements for BPSS clearance
We welcome the unique contribution diverse applicants bring and do not discriminate on the basis of culture, ethnicity, race, nationality or national origin, age, sex, gender identity or expression, religion or belief, disability status, sexual orientation, educational or social background or any other factor.
Our values are Purpose, Humanity Openness and Together. Find out more here about how we celebrate diversity and an inclusive culture in our workplace.
How to Apply
Candidates must submit a CV which describes how you meet the requirements set out in the Person Specification above.
In D&T, we recruit using a combination of the Digital, Data and Technology Capability and Success Profiles Frameworks. We will assess your Experience, Technical Skills and the following Behaviours during the assessment process:
- Managing a quality service
- Seeing the bigger picture
- Developing self and other
- Delivery at Pace
Your application will be reviewed against the Person Specification above by a diverse panel.
Successful candidates who meet the required standard will then be invited to a 1-hour panel interview held via video conference.
Should we receive a high volume of applications, a pre-sift based on the technical requirements you possess will be conducted prior to the sift.
Terms and conditions
Please review our Terms & Conditions which set out the way we recruit and provide further information related to the role and salary arrangements.
If you have any questions please feel free to contact recruitment@digital.justice.gov.uk
10/06/2022, 23:55 hours.
To apply for roles in MOJ you will need to confirm your employment history for at least 3 years prior to the date of application so that pre-employment checks (BPSS) can be undertaken. If you have spent significant time abroad (a total of 6 months in the past 3 years) you would be required to give a reasonable account of the reasons why.
For some roles you will be required to successfully complete National Security Vetting at Counter Terrorism (CTC), Security Clearance (SC) or Developed Vetting (DV) level as a condition of appointment. To meet CTC/SC/DV requirements you will normally need to have been resident in the UK for at least 3/5/10 years prior to the date of application (The level of checks that are required are stated in the advert).
If you do not meet the above requirements, you may still be considered if, for example:
- You've been serving overseas with HM Forces or in some other official capacity as a representative of HM Government
- You were studying abroad
- You were living overseas with parents
In such cases you will need to be able to provide referee cover for the period(s) of residence overseas. The duration of overseas residence and the country of abode will also be taken into account.
Success Profiles will enable a fairer and more inclusive method of recruitment by enabling us to assess the range of experiences, abilities, strengths, behaviours and technical/professional skills required for different roles. This flexible approach to recruitment focuses more on finding the right candidate for the specific role. To find out more about Success Profiles to support your application please click here for further guidance.
We have provided detail of the assessment stages and areas being assessed to help you prepare for completing your application form, and to advise of what will be assessed following this, if you successfully pass the application stage.
Application form stage assessments
Interview stage assessments
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For further details about the initiative and eligibility requirements visit : https://www.gov.uk/government/news/making-the-civil-service-a-great-place-to-work-for-veterans
Redeployment Interview Scheme
Civil Service departments are expected to explore redeployment opportunities before making an individual redundant. The MoJ are committed, as part of the Redeployment Interview Scheme, to providing opportunities to those who are 'at risk of redundancy'.
MoJ are able to offer an interview to eligible candidates who meet the minimum selection criteria, except in a limited number of campaigns. Candidate's will not be eligible for the Redeployment Interview Scheme if they are applying on promotion.
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) https://www.gov.uk/settled-status-eu-citizens-families
· 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
Further information on nationality requirements (opens in a new window) https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/nationality-rules
This Vacancy is closed to applications.