Job Description

Why this role matters

One of the key pillars of BT\'s strategy is the security and the \'safe to connect\' of the services we offer to our customers, alongside the security and protection of our infrastructure, networks and information. At the heart of this strategy is the Cyber and Security Engineering team (CSE), where we design, defend, protect and operate our cyber and security capabilities across BT\'s products and services.

Our customers, as we do, expect instant services, on all the time and \'safe to connect\'. This change on consumer behaviour is now taking us on a great journey of development and growth, whereby we must develop and deliver differently, agile and dynamic \xe2\x80\xa6 steering us on the journey of a technology revolution where traditional networking path is fully merging with software and programmable networks, enhancing and radically redefining the cyber and security capabilities. Very exciting times for our customers, BT, telecommunications industry and for us as engineers!

CSE unit delivers and deploys end-to-end cyber and security capabilities across BT, as platform owners. Our mission is to build the most secure network and services, a key brand differentiator for BT and our other brands, EE, Plusnet and Openreach. We aim to put BT on security \'gartner\' alike global lead.

We are responsible for keeping BT and EE, globally, available during cyber attack, and operating various network and real-time capabilities for attack detection, prevention and analysis. We defend the business, and in support of that, we also deploy new capabilities, ensure those capabilities are operational, have adequate capacity, and maintain their visibility/reach.
CSE unit is a very special and attractive place for cyber and security enthusiasts alike, it is the place to grow and become the world expert on security technologies.

The Cyber Specialist will be responsible for cyber security design and technical leadership of a technical domain in the CSE unit, including the deployment of cyber capabilities of Network Cloud.

This role can be based in Manchester, Birmingham, Ipswich or Glasgow.

What you\'ll be doing

• Design specialist for e2e cyber capabilities, of a specific set of tool/s and platform/s
• Design new security capabilities, be it on tools we develop and deploy or the feature enhancements to our existing tools, infrastructure and network security
• Technical leadership and responsible for own technical platform
• To review and adjust the cyber capabilities based on analysis and attack behaviour change, ensuring the latest threats are detected and proactively acted on
• To design for and oversee the deployment of the new cyber protection infrastructure - till operationally live and accepted into service, if required as part own domain
• Where required, lead on incident responses and Post-incident-Reviews (PIRs) as a subject matter expert; and own resolution and implementation for own domain
• Proactive capacity management of own platform/domain, acting at least 12 months in advance, to ensure sufficient capacity is available at any time.
• To ensure that the cyber capabilities designed and deployed have appropriate visibility of cyber events, so OPS can analyse and act on proactively
• Work as part of the wider team, to drive automation and data mining where possible to link network and information data as such that create one source and own view of our cyber status and capability
• To proactively identify BT/EE services requiring monitoring/protection strategies, and develop these strategies, working closely with the service owners
• Lead on a number of complex technical deliverables ensuring work is completed on time and within budget
• To have clarity of roadmap for own domain and input into wider CSE and security roadmap planning for cyber design and defence
• To continually develop professional cyber skills and awareness, to always remain ahead of our attackers, and develop the skills of others in the team
• Lead on a number of complex technical deliverables ensuring work is completed on time and within budget

You\'ll have the following skills and experience

Skills:

• Significant experience of security engineering and delivery with a broad understanding IT and network services
• Ability to collaborate effectively with others to drive forward key security objectives
• Strong communication skills including presentation and documentation writing (to both technical and business audiences)
• An aptitude for autonomous learning as required by the demands of the business
• Demonstrable understanding of network technologies and IP Protocols
• Proven problem-solving abilities
• Assertiveness, and the ability to drive through change
• Excellent team working skills including the ability to work effectively within a geographically disparate team
• Experience working within an IT support environment, particularly dealing with incident handling and change management.

Advantageous:

• Knowledge of policy frameworks and understanding of policies, procedures, guideline structure
• Previous working experience in a cyber security role
• DDoS protection
• Linux and Windows Administration
• Virtualisation technology, including containerisation (eg. Docker, Kubernetes, Linux etc.)
• Knowledge and experience of cloud services (public or private), eg. AWS, Azure, Openstack etc.
• Privileged Access Management
• Host based security products (threat detection, micro segmentation)
• Vulnerability and Compliance Management
• SIEM technology
• Experience working within an ITIL environment, in particular change and incident management

Key Skills required for this role are:

• Cisco and networking

• Network trouble shooting

• Design, build and implementation - security engineering

• Exposure to DDOS or other security controls

Experience

• May have a degree qualification (engineering/science) or has served a technical apprenticeship and/or obtained NVQ and/or further education technical qualifications (i.e. HND).
• Qualified to be and possibly member of a professional engineering/science institution and working towards chartered engineer accreditation.
• Relevant professional experience

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• 25 days annual leave (plus bank holidays)
• 10% on target bonus
• Life Assurance
• Pension scheme
• Option to join the Healthcare Cash Plan or other benefits such as dental insurance, gym memberships etc.
• 50% off BT and EE mobile pay monthly or SIM only plans
• Exclusive colleague discounts on our latest and greatest BT broadband packages
• BT TV, including BT Sport and the NOW Entertainment membership, and 25% off NOW Sport, Cinema and Kids
• 30% discount for friends and family on EE mobile pay monthly and SIM only plans

Our leadership standards

Looking in:
Leading inclusively
I inspire and build trust through self-awareness, honesty and integrity.
Owning outcomes
I take the right decisions that benefit the broader organisation.

Looking out:
Delivering for the customer
I execute brilliantly on clear priorities that add value to our customers and the wider business.
Commercially savvy
I demonstrate strong commercial focus, bringing an external perspective to decision-making.

Looking to the future:
Growth mindset
I experiment and identify opportunities for growth for both myself and the organisation.
Building for the future
I build diverse future-ready teams where all individuals can be at their best.

About us

BT is part of BT Group, along with EE, Openreach, and Plusnet.

Millions of people rely on us every day to help them live their lives, power their businesses, and keep their public services running. We connect friends to family, clients to colleagues, people to possibilities. We keep the wheels of business spinning, and the emergency services responding.

We value diversity and celebrate difference. As Philip Jansen, our CEO, says \'We embed diversity and inclusion into everything that we do. It\'s fundamental to our purpose: we connect for good.\'

We all stick to the same values: Personal, Simple, and Brilliant. From day one, you\'ll get stuck in to tough challenges, pitch in with ideas, make things happen. But you won\'t be alone: we\'ll be there with help and support, learning and development.

This is your chance to make a real difference to the world: to be part of the digital transformation of countless lives and businesses. Grab it.

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