Graduate Scheme – Information Security

Job Description

There’s never been a more exciting time to be part of the nuclear sector. New opportunities are being created all the time. At UKNNL, you’ll be in the ideal place to capitalise on this momentum, face new challenges and develop a long, successful and meaningful career.

UKNNL is where your solutions solve real-world problems. As an Information Security Graduate, you’ll be involved in a wide range of activities and have the opportunity to see the impact your work has in a real-world environment. You will play an important part in ensuring UKNNL deliver work to benefit society by advancing cleaner energy, protecting the environment and keeping everyone safe.

We’re an organisation that’s here to experiment and push the limits of what’s possible. So, if you’re keen to excel in your chosen field, this is the place to do it. Because at UKNNL, anything is possible.

We are developing the next generation of technical experts. Not only will you receive the opportunity to work on exciting and rewarding projects, but you’ll continually learn from skilled and knowledgeable industry experts who are leaders in their field.

We will help you become everything you can be, by challenging, stretching, and pushing you to your limits while supporting you every step of the way.

To join the UKNNL graduate programme you will have graduated, or be on course to graduate, with a 2:1 in Computing, Digital Technologies or another degree discipline.

You will have the right to work in the UK, have lived in the UK for at least 5 years and be able to achieve SC level security clearance.

You will be naturally curious with the drive and motivation to discover more about yourself and our business.

Forward-thinking, proactive and positive, you will bring your own energy to the team and you’ll have an enquiring mind that helps us to discover solutions to some of the world’s biggest issues.

You will have excellent interpersonal, communication and organisational skills.

UKNNL is an information reliant and dependent organisation; it cannot function or benefit society without this information. Therefore, having good information security is critical to UKNNL’s continued operation.

Within UKNNL, the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) Function steer and help UKNNL and all its business teams stay information secure. The CISO Function, play a critical role in both helping protect and enable the business.

This important and at times fast moving role, will allow you to support, and get involved in a wide range of activities, including:

• Supporting activities associated with UKNNL information security transformation, as part of continuous security development
• Helping with risk assessment activities, including growing our understanding of how information is used to create value, and risk associated with each information asset
• Working with security architects to identify where and how security requirements are introduced in key business operations and projects
• Supporting information security related education, awareness and training activities
• Helping provide the business answers to questions it may have regarding security
• Assisting with understanding how secure UKNNL’s new suppliers are
• Providing support during security exercises and testing activities

Throughout the graduate programme you will have the support of our experienced early careers team, your line manager, mentor, colleagues, and fellow graduates.

You will acquire a depth of knowledge and specific technical skills and experience the full life cycle of our projects; from liaising with customers to understand their needs, planning work and developing new methods and processes, to documenting your work effectively in technical reports.

You will…