Delivery Manager, Cyber Operations Engineering - NESO

About the Role

National Energy System Operator (NESO) recognises the potential of bright and talented individuals, and we encourage you to join us as Great Britain’s energy system undergoes an ambitious, exciting, and vital transformation. Together with industry, we are creating a cleaner, more sustainable energy future.

NESO is now looking for a Delivery Manager to join us, with a focus on Cyber Operations Engineering. The purpose of this role is to ensure cyber security platforms and solutions are delivered and managed to meet the needs of Cyber Security Operations, with pace, quality, security, and reliability. In doing so you will build and maintain partnership with the Security Operations teams and wider Digital, Data, and Technology Teams, and manage a team of security engineers.

This role is accountable for the delivery, maintenance, and performance of cyber security platforms and services to support Cyber Security Operations.

You will be responsible for developing and delivering a Roadmap for Cyber Operations Engineering aligned to Cyber Security Operations requirements. You will also own the Agile Dev Sec Ops  delivery of the roadmap and manage the pipeline of security monitoring requirements, ensuring security logging is suitable to enable threat-led monitoring and detection.

You will ensure availability of cyber security platforms and solution through reliability engineering, establishing real-time monitoring to detect availability issues and enable resolution of problems within agreed SLAs. You will provide thought leadership to Cyber Operations Engineering, bringing a product-driven mindset, agile working practices, and a focus on continuous improvement and site reliability engineering.

This role can be based from Wokingham or Warwick, and we continue to offer hybrid working from office and home. We are open to full time and part time applicants, as well as flexible working arrangements.

• Partner with Cyber Security Operations to determine the security platforms and solutions required to enable security monitoring, threat detection, and response capabilities.
• Partner with Digital, Data, and Technology teams to agree and prioritise log collection requirements and monitoring solutions for new and upcoming projects.
• Translate Security and Business requirements into a set of prioritised outcomes to scope and plan an achievable delivery roadmap.
• Manage a team of security engineers.
• Champion continuous improvement and automation.
• Ensure security tooling meets requirements with quality and reliability.
• Establish KPIs and metrics to report on the effectiveness of security solutions.

We’re forging the path, and we know we can’t do it alone. That’s why we need visionary minds like yours to join us on this transformative journey. In this case, we’re looking for someone who:

• Passionate about cyber security and modern agile engineering
• Experience of working in a Security engineering team with a focus on availability.
• Solid experience of Security Operations tooling including SIEM and SOAR platforms, Syslog, and Threat Intelligence Platforms.
• Knowledge of modern software engineering principles and practices, such as Dev Sec Ops , continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD), infrastructure as code, microservices, and cloud-native architectures.
• Skills in designing, developing, testing, deploying, and maintaining scalable, secure, and reliable solutions that meet business requirements and align with the enterprise architecture.
• Highly outcome-focused, and the ability to understand and translate the needs and expectations of the users and stakeholders into effective digital solutions.
• Track record on managing issues effectively during priority incidents and ensuring team morale is maintained.
• Skills in communicating and collaborating effectively with various stakeholders, such as senior delivery managers, enterprise architects, and vendors.
• Excellent leadership, management, and communication skills, and the ability to inspire, motivate, and coordinate diverse and multidisciplinary teams.

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