Security Assurance Lead; OMNIA

Overview

Date Posted:
Country: United Kingdom
Location: GBR
10:
Warminster, HFT, Warminster Training Centre, Imber Road, Warminster, BA12 0DJ

Position Role Type: Unspecified

Omnia Security Assurance Lead

Warminster based, hybrid working

Be at the forefront of transforming British Army training.

This is more than a job
- it's a mission
. You will be part of a high-impact, collaborative environment, where we expect everyone to live the values and standards of the British Army. Every person in our team plays a critical role in delivering OMNIA's vision; designing, delivering, and transforming collective training so the British Army is ready to fight and win.

You'll work in a matrix organisation and report operationally through OMNIA Training Support Branch and functionally through the Raytheon UK Engineering Management team, specifically the Systems Security Engineering Group. Ultimately, you'll work with the British Army, championing innovation, and helping shape the future of military collective training.

The Omnia Security Assurance Lead role requires a versatile individual who can make effective and highly valued contributions to activities across the project lifecycle in collective training and IT environments. The candidate is expected to be capable of operating in a senior technical role working closely with customer and delivery teams; alone and unsupervised if necessary. This position is critical to the successful delivery of the Collective Training Transformation Programme (CTTP), ensuring that training is delivered to meet the British Army's needs.

This role concentrates on Information Assurance and Cyber Security but does not exclude supporting Physical and Personnel security elements.

The successful candidate will be responsible for ensuring programme security and information assets are protected through policy, procedural and technical enhancements. You will be comfortable working in a matrix management organisation and will act as the trusted security advisor to the programme by ensuring industry best practice and customer security requirements are implemented with regards to IA, cyber security and risk management.

You will be required to design and support implementation and provide ongoing IA support of secure cloud solutions as well as on premises solutions as required. Managing the Omnia Security Team, you will be the Programme Secure by Design Subject Matter Expert. This role will be based in the Warminster area.

• Leading the development and management of the Omnia security vision, threat-modelling, security requirements, security standards, reference architectures, security strategies and roadmaps; in order to deliver security assurance across and throughout the life of the programme
• Lead security interactions with senior internal and external stakeholders
• Supporting security assurance of systems
• Capturing, expanding, and analysing security requirements
• Developing innovative security solutions to be in alignment with the customer's risk posture
• Driving security technology evaluations and proofs-of-concept
• Building strong cross-organisational relationships and driving a security-minded culture
• Managing the lifecycle of security technologies
• Working closely with the other programme services to ensure that security is properly embedded
• Evaluating and assessing security risk including application and system lifecycle management
• Staying current with security technologies and making recommendations for use, based on business value
• Advising leadership on Cybersecurity issues, systems, processes, products, and services
• Maintaining oversight of the design, implementation and through-life of systems to ensure appropriate and effective security controls are included and maintained

We're after individuals who want to serve. You'll have a mission focus, and the enthusiasm and drive to 'get things done'. You'll want to work in collaboration with other defence training organisations, and the British Army. You won't let bureaucracy get in the way of what needs to be done, you'll learn lessons and share these lessons across the team. You won't necessarily have a military background, but you'll understand what it means to serve and to put the mission first.

• Forward facing - experienced in talking to/chairing meetings with customers at a senior level)
• Strong strategic business acumen and understanding of business strategy and the ability to identify solutions to deliver that strategy
• Self-starter with the ability to appropriately prioritise and plan complex work in a rapidly changing environment
• Strong critical thinker with problem solving aptitude
• Highly organised, discrete, outcome focussed, with a "can do" attitude
• Strong communication skills (oral, presentation and written)
• Understands security requirements and how to decompose them
• Knowledge of Information Assurance (IA) processes and procedures
• Understanding/experience of Secure by Design
• Supporting the…