• Details

Reference number

400558

Salary

£34,815 - £41,355

National: £34,815 - £37,600 London: £38,295 - £41,355 (pro-rata for part-time hours)

A Civil Service Pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%

GBP

Job grade

Higher Executive Officer

Contract type

Permanent

Business area

DESNZ - Integrated Corporate Services - Digital

Type of role

Digital

Working pattern

Flexible working, Full-time, Job share, Part-time

Number of jobs available

1

Contents

• Location
• About the job
• Benefits
• Things you need to know
• Apply and further information

Location

Birmingham, Cardiff, Darlington, Edinburgh, London, Salford

About the job

Job summary

The Integrated Corporate Services (ICS) is a new shared corporate service, launched in July 2023. It provides corporate services (HR, Finance, Digital, Commercial, Security and Estates) across the Department for Energy Security & Net Zero (DESNZ) and the Department for Science, Innovation & Technology (DSIT).

Our team of just over 300 professionals will be leading the way in how these functions will be delivered in the future. Our ambition is to be the leading provider of integrated corporate services for government and set the standard for quality, efficiency, and innovation in our field.

The Civil Service is committed to attract, retain and invest in talent wherever it is

Find Out More

You can also follow our LinkedIn Careers Page: https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/desnz-careers/

Join ICS Digital, where innovation meets expertise to create digital solutions. We are a cohesive digital community who work in the open, solving problems together and fostering a culture of transparency and collaboration. Our commitment to user-focused design and data-driven decision-making ensures that we deliver accessible services tailored to the needs of our customers.

The ICS Cyber team are a cohesive digital community who work in the open, solving problems together and fostering a culture of transparency and collaboration. Our commitment to user-focused design and data-driven decision-making ensures that we deliver accessible services tailored to the needs of our customers.

The ICS Cyber teamwork within ICS Digital to monitor and protect the systems and services we provide to our customers in DSIT and DESNZ.

We are seeking a Junior Security Analyst. You will be at the forefront of safeguarding our digital assets and data. With a good understanding of the complexities of cyber security, you will be a key part of our cyber team, working with the team to monitor the ever-evolving threat landscape.

The role is critical in monitoring, detecting, analysing, and responding to security incidents and threats with precision. You awareness in security technologies and incident response procedures will be pivotal in protecting our critical systems and data.

Leveraging Azure cyber-security tools, especially Azure Sentinel, you will ensure vigilant incident and event monitoring. Working with a dedicated team of cyber analysts, you will collaborate closely with our Security Architects and Threat Intelligence Team to maintain and enhance our security posture.

Visit our blog to learn more about us and our work: https://icsdigital.blog.gov.uk/

Person specification

Key responsibilities

The main aspects of the role will be:

• Participate in security testing and monitoring.
• Manage security logs, identifying log sources, collect and store logs.
• Correlate and triage security incidents
• Cyber Incident response planning and preparation
• Cyber Incident detection, investigation and analysis
• Cyber Incident containment, eradication and recovery
• Cyber Incident post incident activity and reporting
• Development and implementation of Automation techniques

And your key responsibilities will involve you:

• Monitoring and updating the Department’s Cyber Security tool-sets providing recommendations for improvements.
• Working closely with our Senior Security Analysts to identify threats and affect appropriate remediation and configuration / policy changes as a result.
• Assisting Senior Security Analysts in mapping the current security controls and tools and planning for future states.
• Assisting the Senior Security Analysts in their role as key technical contacts with external vendors and the NCSC.
• Assisting in the creation of timely, regular, high-quality reports for all levels of the business that provides information about the effective management of information security in IT systems.
• Supporting the work of the Security Architect’s in demonstrating appropriate compliance’s for internal and external auditors

Essential criteria

Experience with Cyber Incident detection, investigation and analysis using Microsoft Sentinel or similar SIEM

Experience with and understanding of security logs including identifying log sources, collect and store logs.

An analytical mindset and apply risk-based decisions using the output from security tools

Involvement in correlating and triage of security incidents

Understanding of Cyber Incident response planning and preparation

Understanding of Cyber Incident containment, eradication and recovery

Understanding of Cyber Incident post incident activity and reporting

Desirable criteria

An understanding of cyber security tools including SIEM/SOAR, CASBs, EDRs and cloud-native tools.

Ability to develop and tune detection content, and assist in threat hunts, to identify potentially malicious activity.

Experience of Investigating security alerts to understand the nature and extent of possible cyber incidents and assist in the containment and eradication.

Identifying cyber threats and vulnerabilities and working with teams across ICS to mitigate them.

An understanding of programming skills (SQL, KQL).

Azure Fundamentals Certification

CompTIA Security+ Certification

Please, no agencies.

Behaviours

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

• Changing and Improving
• Communicating and Influencing
• Making Effective Decisions

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £34,815, Department for Energy Security & Net Zero contributes £10,085 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.

The Department for Energy Security and Net Zero offers a competitive mix of benefits including:

• A culture of flexible working, such as job sharing, homeworking and compressed hours.
• Automatic enrolment into the Civil Service Pension Scheme, with an employer contribution of 28.97%.
• A minimum of 25 days of paid annual leave, increasing by 1 day per year up to a maximum of 30.
• An extensive range of learning & professional development opportunities, which all staff are actively encouraged to pursue.
• Access to a range of retail, travel and lifestyle employee discounts.
• A hybrid office/home based working model where staff will spend a norm of 40-60% of their time in the office (minimum of 40%) over a month with flex dependent on balancing business and individual need.

Things you need to know

Selection process details

This vacancy is using Success Profiles , and will assess your Behaviours and Experience.

After submission of the first stage of your application you will be invited to complete a Civil Service Work Strengths Test. If you successfully pass the test, you will be invited to complete the final stage of the application.

Please complete the online tests as soon as possible (within 24-48 hours is recommended), the closing date for the tests is 23:55 on 28/04/2025 If you fail to complete the online test before the deadline your application will be withdrawn. Guidance for the test will be available when you are invited to take the test. The tests are administered online and accessed via the CS Jobs website.

As part of the application process, you will be asked to complete a CV and personal statement.

Further details around what this will entail are listed on the application form.

Please use your personal statement (in no more than 500 words) to describe how you address the skills and experience outlined in the job advert.

Applications will be sifted on CV and personal statement.

In the event of a large number of applicants, applications will be sifted on the personal statement.

Candidates who pass the initial sift may be progressed to a full sift, or progressed straight to assessment/interview.

The interview will consist of behaviour-based questions.

Interviewees will be asked to deliver a presentation; further details will be provided nearer the time.

Sift and interview dates

Sift and interview dates to be confirmed.

Further Information

Reasonable Adjustment

We encourage candidates to discuss their adjustment needs by emailing the job contact which can be found under the contact point for applicants’ section.

If you are experiencing accessibility problems with any attachments on this advert, please contact the email address in the ‘Contact point for applicants’ section.

If successful and transferring from another Government Department a criminal record check may be carried out.

New entrants are expected to join on the minimum of the pay band.

A location-based reserve list of successful candidates will be kept for 12 months. Should another role become available within that period you may be offered this position.

Please note terms and conditions are attached. Please take time to read the document to determine how these may affect you.

Any move to the Department for Energy, Security and Net Zero from another employer will mean you can no longer access childcare vouchers. This includes moves between government departments. You may however be eligible for other government schemes, including Tax Free Childcare; for further information visit the Childcare Choices website.

DESNZ does not normally offer full home working (i.e., working at home); but we do offer a variety of flexible working options (including occasionally working from home).

DESNZ cannot offer Visa sponsorship to candidates through this campaign.

DESNZ holds a Visa sponsorship licence but this can only be used for certain roles and this campaign does not qualify.

In order to process applications without delay, we will be sending a Criminal Record Check to Disclosure and Barring Service /Disclosure Scotland on your behalf.

However, we recognise in exceptional circumstances some candidates will want to send their completed forms direct. If you will be doing this, please advise Government Recruitment Service of your intention by emailing Pre-EmploymentChecks.grs@cabinetoffice.gov.uk stating the job reference number in the subject heading.

For further information on the Disclosure Scotland confidential checking service telephone: the Disclosure Scotland Helpline on 0870 609 6006 and ask to speak to the operations manager in confidence, or email Info@disclosurescotland.co.uk

Applicants who are successful at interview will be, as part of pre-employment screening, subject to a check on the Internal Fraud Database (IFD). This check will provide information about employees who have been dismissed for fraud or dishonesty offences. This check also applies to employees who resign or otherwise leave before being dismissed for fraud or dishonesty had their employment continued. Any applicant’s details held on the IFD will be refused employment.

A candidate is not eligible to apply for a role within the Civil Service if the application is made within a 5-year period following a dismissal for carrying out internal fraud against government.

Vetting

For further information on National Security Vetting please visit the Demystifying Vetting website.

Feedback

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 .

See our vetting charter .

People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard 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)
• 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

Working for the Civil Service

The Civil Service Code 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 .

The Civil Service also offers a Redeployment Interview Scheme to civil servants who are at risk of redundancy, and who meet the minimum requirements for the advertised vacancy.

Apply and further information

This vacancy is part of the Great Place to Work for Veterans initiative.

The Civil Service welcomes applications from people who have recently left prison or have an unspent conviction. Read more about prison leaver recruitment .

Contact point for applicants

Job contact :

• Name : P&D Team
• Email : peopleanddevelopment@ics.gov.uk

Recruitment team

• Email : desnzresourcing.grs@cabinetoffice.gov.uk

Further information