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General information

Posting ID
GCA1
Type of employment
Permanent
Organisation
Government Commercial Agency
Salary Banding MIN
£ 59877
Location
Birmingham
Salary Banding MAX
£ 66869
Workplace Type
Hybrid

Description & Requirements

Lead Cyber Security Analyst

Government Commercial Agency

Apply before 11:55 pm on Monday 1st June 2026

Reference number: 462178

Salary: £59,877 - £66,869

A Civil Service Pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%

Job grade:  Grade 7 Band 5

Contract type: Permanent

Type of role: Digital

Working pattern: Full-time, Compressed hours

Number of jobs available: 1

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Location

Birmingham, Liverpool, Newport (Gwent), Norwich

About the job

Job summary

Would you like to be a part of a digital transformation journey and be part of a growing team that is constantly evolving? Do you want to be involved in work that has a meaningful purpose? If yes, then this could be the role for you!

Job Summary

As the head of our new SecOps team, you will report to the Head of Service and Infrastructure within Digital Services. You’ll lead threat detection, response, and IT Health Checks while establishing security standards, policies, and automated monitoring processes.

Working alongside product teams, you will leverage advanced SIEM and network analysis tools to mitigate vulnerabilities. You are responsible for resolving active issues and collaborating with Operations and Development to prevent future risks. This leadership role requires proactive communication with executives, ensuring our infrastructure remains resilient through continuous improvement of our security capabilities and response strategies.  

Job description

Key Accountabilities

  • lead monitoring, triaging, and investigation of security alerts on Azure and AWS platforms to identify security incidents
  • lead the SecOps team in the design, development and enablement of automated monitoring processes, advising on the latest SIEM (Security Information and Event Management) and network analysis tools, techniques and procedures to detect malicious activity, while communicating directly with leadership on the progress and status of monitoring
  • coordinate the triage and remediation of identified threats using a risk-based approach, working closely with service teams and developers to ensure that appropriate mitigation measures are implemented
  • produce regular reporting which delivers insights on security monitoring activities and the impact on cyber security risk
  • develop and update internal plans, processes, and knowledge base articles, and define requirements for improving and expanding our security tooling
  • support wider Cyber Defence activities, working closely with other teams within the Directorate and Information Security to proactively reduce cyber security threats and vulnerabilities

Person specification

Essential criteria (To be assessed at application stage):

  • A track record in cyber security leadership, strategy development and planning in large and complex organisations, with demonstrable technical security knowledge of modern security concepts, principles and technologies for Azure, AWS, and SaaS.
  • Experience using SIEM and Cloud provider monitoring tools such as AWS CloudWatch, CloudTrail and GuardDuty, Azure Defender for Cloud and Azure Sentinel for threat monitoring, alerting and response
  • Expert knowledge of typical threats and attack vectors with appropriate monitoring and remediation strategies.
  • experience using a variety of sources of information to identify, analyse and report on relevant threats and vulnerabilities.
  • Developed problem solving skills including addressing complex technical security and process challenges that ensure delivery at pace to an appropriate risk appetite.
  • Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to effectively communicate complex security concepts to non-technical stakeholders, influence stakeholders and create easy to consume articles such as blogs, policies and presentations.

Behaviours

We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

  • Delivering at Pace
  • Leadership
  • Making Effective Decisions
  • Changing and Improving

Technical skills

We'll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:

  • understanding of security event analysis and remediation specific to AWS or Azure Cloud environments and workloads.

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £59,877, Government Commercial Agency contributes £17,346 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.

Valuing our people:

  • Competitive salary 
  • Generous pension scheme
  • A discretionary non-contractual performance related bonus 
  • Working remotely in addition to working in advertised office location
  • Flexi time scheme (available for B1-B6) - 
  • Minimum 25 days annual leave to a maximum service related 30 days excluding bank holidays

Want to make a difference? Find out more about the rewarding work that we do in our candidate pack. 

The Civil Service is committed to attract, retain and invest in talent wherever it is found. To learn more please see the Civil Service People Plan and the Civil Service D&I Strategy.

We want to make our recruitment process accessible to everyone, so if there is any way that we can support you, please contact recruitment@gca.gov.uk

Working flexibly, delivering outcomes

GCA operates a smarter working model that balances flexibility with collaboration. Successful candidates are expected to spend at least 26 days per quarter (approximately 2 days per week, pro-rata) at their contracted office, another GCA site, or off-site for meetings. For the remainder of the time, you may work from home or another suitable location that meets business needs.

Things you need to know

Artificial intelligence

Artificial intelligence can be a useful tool to support your application, however, all examples and statements provided must be truthful, factually accurate and taken directly from your own experience. Where plagiarism has been identified (presenting the ideas and experiences of others, or generated by artificial intelligence, as your own) applications may be withdrawn and internal candidates may be subject to disciplinary action. Please see our candidate guidance (opens in a new window) for more information on appropriate and inappropriate use.

Selection process details

This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours and Technical skills.

Selection Process

A reserve list may be held for up to 12 months, which the Civil Service may use to fill future suitably similar vacancies across government for candidates who are considered appointable following interview. Should you be placed on a reserve list and want to be removed please contact recruitment@gca.gov.uk.

Please note that as part of this recruitment process, if you are unsuccessful at the interview stage but are close to the benchmark score you may be considered for and offered a role at a lower pay band within the same job family.

Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.

Security

Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check.

Successful candidates must meet the security requirements before they can be appointed. The level of security needed is security check (opens in a new window).
 
See our vetting charter (opens in a new window).

People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.

Nationality requirements

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)
  • 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)

Working for the Civil Service

The Civil Service Code (opens in a new window) sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants.
 
We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles (opens in a new window).

The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.

Diversity and Inclusion

The Civil Service is committed to attract, retain and invest in talent wherever it is found. To learn more please see the Civil Service People Plan (opens in a new window) and the Civil Service Diversity and Inclusion Strategy (opens in a new window).

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Contact point for applicants

Job contact :

  • Name :Recruitment team
  • Email :recruitment@gca.gov.uk

Recruitment team

  • Email :recruitment@gca.gov.uk

Further information

Complaints procedure (CS JOBS ONLY)
 Our recruitment processes are underpinned by the principle of selection for appointment on merit on the basis of fair and open competition as outlined in the Civil Service Commissioners’ Recruitment Principles details of which can be found at http://civilservicecommission.independent.gov.uk
 If you feel your application has not been treated in accordance with the Recruitment Principles, and you wish to make a complaint, you should contact recruitment@gca.gov.uk in the first instance.
 If you remain unsatisfied with the response you receive you can then contact the Civil Service Commission at info@csc.gov.uk

https://www.gca.gov.uk/careers-with-gca

Attachments

Accessible - Government Commercial Agency candidate pack Opens in new window(docx, 96kB)

 

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