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Information Assurance Security Manager
Location: Gloucester - on site 5 days per week
Due to security clearance requirements candidates must be eligible for or currently hold SC or DV. Candidates must be sole UK national/British citizen and resided in the UK for 10 years and over.
At DXC Technology, delivering excellence for our customers and colleagues is more than just a motto, it’s something we strive towards constantly through our work. Every day we deliver mission critical services in a secure environment whilst promoting our people first agenda, a real sense of community and a healthy work-life balance. Our consistently positive customer feedback and continuous growth helps us cement our place as one of the world’s leading IT solutions enterprises, helping us deliver services and solutions in both challenging and exciting situations.
We believe that hiring a diverse team is crucial to our success and our recruiting decisions are based on your skills and experience as an individual. We actively encourage consistent growth on our journey towards a culture of inclusion and recognise that the people we employ are vital to providing a great customer experience. As such, we have a variety of training, support, and tools available to aid in your continual personal and professional development. Our ongoing goal is to drive innovation and modernise operations across the board, which includes furthering the skills of our colleagues. At DXC, building a better you, builds a better us.
The role:
At DXC, one of our platinum accounts has an opening for an Information Assurance Security Manager. The successful candidate will work within multiple teams and will be innovative and analytical with a good eye for detail. Your role will include implementing standards, policies, and procedures for continual service improvement. We are looking for someone who has all round skills in information security risk management.
Role responsibilities:
Working closely with service delivery teams, monitor compliance of existing services with defined security controls, identifying non-compliances, determining the preferred route to remediation, and monitoring and reporting on the progress of associated actions
Advise risk owners as to the severity of the risks associated with any such non-compliances, and where necessary discussing potential mitigation strategies (and their impacts) to enable them to make informed risk management decisions
Monitor implementation and ongoing maintenance of agreed risk management BAU activities (e.g. patching)
Maintain the risk assessment and related artefacts such as the risk register and security-specific documentation such as Security Operating Procedures through-life
Assess the security impact of changes to the service, reflecting agreed changes in security documentation
Create and deliver regular reports regarding the security posture of the service being delivered
Assist the Account Security Lead with creating and maintaining security-related processes, policies and guidance
Proactively identifying areas for improvement in security across the account, both to improve security, and make good security easier
What you will bring to the team:
Several proven years experience in a similar or related role with desirable additional qualifications to include CISM or CISSP / IISP or other professional body membership
Experience of working to HMG (e.g. NCSC guidance, DSIT Secure by Design, GovS 007) best practices
Desire to improve processes, looking for the root cause of a problem
Willingness to both share your knowledge and learn from others
A proactive approach towards looking for risks and problems, and solving them
A strong team working ethic, with a “customer first” focus and a thirst for knowledge
Desirable Skills and Technologies:
A good knowledge and understanding of information and cyber security risk management
Knowledge of threat modelling utilising STRIDE or Attack Trees,
Knowledge of the NIST Cyber Security Framework
Knowledge of various technology stacks including Cloud (AWS, MS Azure), M365, VMWare, Redhat Openshift or other container orchestration platforms, Windows and Linux operating systems
Knowledge of industry security guidance provided by the likes of OWASP and CIS
Awareness of security champions programmes
What we will do for you :
Competitive compensation
Pension scheme
DXC Select – Our comprehensive benefits package (includes private health/medical insurance, childcare vouchers, gym membership and more)
Perks at Work (discounts on technology, groceries, travel and more)
DXC incentives (recognition tools, employee lunches, regular social events etc)
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