Cyber Security Manager

Location: Newbury

Team overview:

The Vodafone Cyber Security team is dedicated to protecting Vodafone, its people, customers and critical assets in order to build a secure digital future. In support of this mission the Cyber Vodafone Business Platforms & Solutions (VBPS) team are tasked to ensure a consistently high level of security across all Platforms & Solutions (P&S) consumed by Vodafone Business customers.

As part of the wider Vodafone Cyber Security team, Cyber VBPS interface with a wide range of global stakeholders at all levels across Vodafone. We work collaboratively to protect the security of our customers by ensuring the in-life confidentiality, integrity and availability of our platforms and solutions.

Role purpose: 

The primary focus of the role will be to lead the Cyber Technical Assurance (CTA) team to ensure best-in-class technical security consultancy to Vodafone across a wide range of IT, network & telecoms solutions and services. You need to be able to solve complex and multi-dimensional problems, adopting a risk-based approach. 

The post holder will provide consultancy and technical assurance for the VBPS product portfolio with specific responsibility to ensure that Cyber policies and standards are in place and effective. The role will require experience in technical security architectural best practice and the ability to identify technical controls improvements to positively uplift the security posture of VBPS.

Deep understanding of the I.T. and Network systems development lifecycle is essential to enable close collaboration with architects, analysts and a host of third parties to assure the technical compliance of Vodafone’s platforms and solutions with internal policies, standards and Cyber Security Baseline (CSB) control requirements.

What you will do:

• Build, develop and manage a highly trained and motivated Cyber Technical Assurance (TA) team
• Work with the VBPS technology teams to ensure security controls are implemented effectively with appropriate coverage, throughout the product’s lifecycle
• Lead the technical assessment and qualification of Cyber VBPS risks raised
• Contribute content to the quarterly Cyber Security Governance Board (CSGB)
• Drive Cyber process and technical improvement plans across VBPS and respond to, manage and deliver Cyber ad-hoc tasks

Who you are:

• Strong experience in applying technical security baseline standards from Internal and external standards to ensure security through the full product lifecycle of enterprise products and services
• Demonstrable technical security experience in IT and networks, ideally in a consultancy or assurance role
• Excellent written and oral communication skills
• Some customer interfacing skills/experience desirable

Must have technical / professional qualifications: 

• Demonstrable assessment/ assurance industry expertise in cybersecurity
• Professional qualifications. E.g. CCNA, CISSP, CISM. IISP, ISO27001 LI/ LA or similar desirable

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