Senior Cyber Security Advisor

Senior Cyber Security Advisor
046438

• Customers, Communication and Technology

CSIRT Position Type:
Full Time

Location:

North Greenwich, London / Hybrid – 50% office attendance model

Salary: £60,000 - £68,000, plus excellent benefits package

At TfL, we operate one of the busiest metro systems in the world, with 5 million people using the underground daily. Join us, and you will be amongst the leading engineers, architects and consultants responsible for making TfL world famous, from our London Underground covering 272 stations, or our red bus fleet of 9300 vehicles, TfL remains a key part of the Capital’s success.

TfL’s cyber security professionals play a critical and ever-increasing role in protecting these services and the online systems that make it all work, safeguarding our customers as they travel across the capital’s network, and ultimately helping to realise the Government’s ambition to make the UK the safest place in the world to be online and do business.

Our cyber security Advisors provide specialist support to the organisation, influencing top-level strategy all the way through to the architectural designs to protect TfL assets and reduce the likelihood and impact of a cyber security incident.

Your role will be to provide specialist cyber security advice and guidance, supporting the organisation to align with organisational policies, standards and good practice. The ability to build relationships and manage multiple stakeholders is essential in this role. We’re looking for a great communicator, able to make the complex understandable for a wide range of stakeholders.

As a Senior Cyber Security Advisor, you will ideally have relevant skills and experience working in cyber security using best practices (e.g. ISO
27001, NIST Cyber Security Framework, NIS Regulations) and / or experience working in infrastructure (IT / OT) or cloud environments with cyber security responsibilities. Your advisory experience will enable you to work collaboratively with business stakeholders to build or procure secure systems that minimise TfL’s cyber risk exposure and meets regulatory obligations.

Prior experience in cyber security would be advantageous but is not essential as the successful candidate will receive a combination of formal and on-the-job training to develop their cyber security skillset.

• Provide advice and guidance to the ‘First Line’ cyber security risk owners, ‘Second Line’ cyber security team, ‘Third Line’ internal audit teams and senior business stakeholders.
• Consult on the secure design, build, implementation, testing and delivery of systems / solutions.
• Assist stakeholders in assessing, understanding and managing cyber security risks in project and operational systems, including meeting regulatory obligations.
• Contribute to the development and maintenance of cyber security standards and guidance, architectural patterns and strategies, and the continuous improvement of Cyber Security’s internal processes, capabilities and tools.
• Preparing, presenting and / or supporting reports on the current status of cyber security assurance, deliverables, risks and KPIs / KRIs.
• Sponsor, facilitate, support and / or implement cyber security capabilities and improvements to the security and resiliency of information technology systems.
• Chair, facilitate and contribute to technology and cyber security governance groups and approval bodies.
• Promote cyber security and contribute to developing a cyber secure culture across the organisation.

• Proactive problem solver, with a passion for innovation and critical thinking
• Favours a collaborative approach and builds strong relationships with internal and external partners.
• Excellent written and verbal communication – Comfortable tailoring information / reporting to the audience and engaging with senior stakeholders.
• Delivery of complex cyber security improvement initiatives involving enterprise-level technologies.
• Knowledge in information security, data privacy and risk management concepts, frameworks and best practices.
• Understanding of network, application and cloud security…