Cyber Security Specialist

Company Description

Working as a partnership, both Isle of Wight NHS Trust and Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust have a shared vision for excellence in care for our patients and communities; with a set of strategic aims underpinning how we will achieve this. 

The vision for our single corporate services is to:

• Be an employer of choice for corporate talent, attracting and retaining people who share our values for excellence in care and welcome the opportunity to benefit from the broad range of flexible career and development opportunities we can offer.   
• Improve efficiency through simplified and standardised policies, processes, and systems, drawing on the best from both Trusts.  https://c.smartrecruiters.com/sr-company-attachments-prod-aws-dc5/641d594add179b367771845d/5b7eb1c1-5997-4a4a-add4-1c9131acfc0f?r=s3-eu-central-1
• Do things once and reduce any duplication on transactional tasks giving corporate staff the ability to focus on higher value and more diverse activities.  
• Co-invest in the latest digital solutions and standardise our approach, meaning we do things once for both organisations. 
• Improve learning and development opportunities and sharing best practice, upskilling both Trusts.  
• Co-locate teams in purpose-built facilities on the Island and in Portsmouth to enable closer working and sharing.  
• Build resilience for individuals and our teams. 

Job Description

This vacancy is open to employees of Isle of Wight NHS Trust and Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust only.

Job purpose

The Cyber Security Specialist will work as Technical lead to help manage cyber security compliance across the Trusts Digital Infrastructure and applications, reducing our Threat Exposure Score and minimising the attack surface across.  

The post will liaise across Desktop, Applications, Systems and Network Teams to ensure all colleagues are kept updated and take the requisite actions to remediate threats to maintain security and integrity of Trust systems

Job summary

• To monitor privilege account usage working with the relevant engineers to ensure security requirements are met i.e. concept of least privilege, - separation of admin accounts and day-to-day accounts etc.
• To proactively monitor the Digital estate using the cyber tools available to identify potential threats, vulnerabilities and indicators of compromise. Then acting on the highly complex information in a suitable manner as required to allow The Trust to respond to and mitigate risk.
• Work with the relevant teams to ensure that all systems, (including mobile devices, PCs, Servers and network devices etc), are patched to recommended levels, applying security fixes and configurations as recommended by NHS Digital CareCERT.
• To use the cyber tool set to undertake in house audits of the Digital estate and produce the required reports.
• To assist auditors and third party companies to undertake IT security audits. With a view to maintaining continuous improvement within the estate.
• To maintain continual professional development to stay up to date with changing technologies and complete any relevant training that comes with this position

Please read the full job description attached.

Qualifications

Essential

• Degree in a computer related subject / Level 4 Apprenticeship in IT or
• An equivalent level of knowledge and expertise acquired by experience
• Willingness to study and complete additional cyber courses and qualifications
• Relevant post graduate cyber specific qualifications, i.e. CISSP, relevant product specific training in SIEM / AV / Vulnerability scanning etc, technical qualifications i.e. MCSE etc or an equivalent level of knowledge and expertise acquired by experience

Desirable

• ITIL foundation or equivalent
• CISSP (Certified Information Systems Security Professional)
• Understanding of NHS standards, practices and operations
• Experience of non-Microsoft Operating systems such as Unix/Linux

Additional Information

The health and wellbeing of our staff is at the forefront of everything we do. We are proud to be able to offer our staff some fantastic benefits including our on-site Nursery, access to our free Beach Hut for those long summer days, our on-site Wellness Centre including a gym and a swimming pool, access to our fantastic staff networks including LGBTQ, Race Equality and DisAbility, and awards ceremonies to recognise your achievements. We believe we can offer support to all of our staff when they need it the most.

Please note your application may be transferred to the Isle of Wight Applicant Tracking System (ATS) if you are selected for an interview

We welcome the unique contributions that you can bring in terms of your education, opinions, culture, ethnicity, race, sex, gender identity and expression, nation of origin, age, languages spoken, veteran’s status, colour, religion, disability, sexual orientation, and beliefs.