Senior Infosec Specialist

Job Title:                     Senior Info-Security Specialist

Location:                     Malvern + Adaptive Working Arrangement

Package:                      Highly Competitive Salary + Benefits Package

Role Type:                   Permanent

Role ID:                       SF16099

Be part of the QinetiQ journey. Join us as a Senior Infosec Specialist at our Malvern site where you will have the opportunity to work with cutting-edge technology and many of the industry’s most brilliant minds.

The role

As a Senior Infosec Specialist, you’ll have a role that is out of the ordinary. You will support the delivery of cyber security improvement initiatives throughout QinetiQ group working directly with the programme leadership team. Your knowledge of cybersecurity, in information security, and strong interpersonal management skills will be crucial in this role. Using your excellent understanding of the information security discipline, you will ensure the programme team maintains a focus on continuous improvement and develops improvement solutions in response to security issues and problems.

Day-to-day, you will:

1. Design and deliver InfoSec improvement solutions in response to security issues and problems.
2. Providing SME InfoSec advice and guidance to both technical and non-technical personnel.
3. Oversee audit and compliance reporting of technological upgrades, improvements and major changes to the information security environment.
4. Define Information Security training needs, ensuring QinetiQ teams retain a focus on technical excellence.
5. Liaise and provide advice to wider senior management community about technical information security risks, mitigations, and associated compliance risks.
6. Assist the programme team to develop a security culture and awareness of Information Security through direct user communications.

Essential experience of the Senior Infosec Specialist

• An excellent understanding and experience of Security techniques and InfoSec principles
• Considerable experience of delivering effective Security in a complex, regulated and security-critical business environment
• Highly capable of delivering Security projects and work packages, with demonstrable experience
• Experience with developing and maintaining security documentation (policies, standards, guidelines, and procedures)
• Practical experience of security and IA implementation within Industry (and MoD)
• Excellent knowledge of InfoSec accreditation and a wide range of security standards

Qualifications for the Senior Infosec Specialist

We value difference and we don’t have a fixed idea when it comes to background or education, provided you can show the required level of experience and willingness to learn then we would like to hear from you.

Please note that all applicants must be eligible for SC clearance, as a minimum.

UKSV National Security Vetting Solution: guidance for applicants - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

Our Benefits

• Adaptive and flexible working
• Generous holiday allowance
• Health Cash Plan, Private Medical Insurance and Dental Insurance
• Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
• Employee discount portal: Personal Accident Insurance, Travel Insurance, Restaurants, Cinema Tickets and much more.
• Holiday Trading is a benefit that allows most employees to buy up to 5 days’ additional leave.
• We are proud to support the Armed Forces community by honouring the Armed Forces Covenant.
• Payroll Giving and Volunteering - helping charities and local community.

Our volunteering programme enables our people to use their professional skills to make a positive difference in our local communities, for example STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths) ambassador days in schools. We support a number of charities that are important to our people, including those which help the defence community.

Application Guidance

If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages, please contact your regional recruiting team in strictest confidence. We’re committed to building an inclusive culture where everyone’s free to thrive. We are happy to talk about flexible working - please ask about alternative patterns of work at interview.

Why Join QinetiQ?

As we continue to grow into new markets around the world, there’s never been a more exciting time to join QinetiQ. The formula for success is our appetite for innovation and having the courage to take on a wide variety of complex challenges.

You’ll experience a unique working environment where teams from different backgrounds, disciplines and experience enjoy collaborating widely and openly as we undertake this exciting and rewarding journey. Through effective teamwork, and pulling together, you’ll get to experience what happens when we all share different perspectives, blend disciplines, and link technologies; constantly discovering new ways of solving complex problems in an= diverse and inclusive environment where you can be authentic, feel valued and realise your full potential. Visit our website to read more about our diverse and inclusive workplace culture.

About QinetiQ

As a company of thousands of dedicated professionals, we are a world-centre of excellence in research and development and act as a catalyst for fast-track innovation, offering outstanding experimentation facilities, and technical, engineering and scientific expertise. QinetiQ is made up of dedicated experts in defence, aerospace, security and related markets, all working together to explore new ways of protecting what matters most. Being part of QinetiQ means being central to the safety and security of the world around us. Partnering with our customers, we help to save lives; reduce risks to society; and maintain the global infrastructure on which we all depend. Come and find out how you can play a role.

Security

Please note that many roles in QinetiQ are subject to national security vetting. Applicants who already hold the appropriate level of vetting may be able to transfer it upon appointment, subject to approval. A number of roles are also subject to restrictions on access to information, which mean factors such as nationality, previous nationalities held and the country in which you were born may affect the roles that you can be employed in.

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