In Team Digital, we’re planning for a future where the technology solutions we co-create and design enable us to achieve our goal to protect our greatest natural resource and allow our customers, communities and the environment to thrive.
As a team, our vision is to create an everyday digital experience for the people we serve - our customers - by putting them at the heart of everything we do. As part of our award-winning team you’ll help the business become an intelligent, connected organisation in order to deliver our digital transformation and turnaround... as part of the cyber security team what role are they playing in making this happen.
The Cyber Resilience Lead will report directly to the Cyber Resilience Manager, forming part of Information Security Team. You will play an integral role in promoting a strong cyber incident management and resilience culture across Thames Water, reducing cyber risk to our essential services.
What you’ll be doing as a Cyber Resilience Lead
- Establishing and maintaining Cyber Remediate Tracker, providing centralised oversight and coordination of identified improvements from post incidents, exercising, and testing.
- Lead effective planning of cyber incident exercises/testing through engaging with wider incident management and security teams, as well as external suppliers.
- Maintaining oversight of cyber incident management and resilience actions required for our regulatory submissions.
- You will need to engage with external governing bodies and water sector organisations to encourage cross sector incident response improvements.
- An expectation to design and develop a maturity model to demonstrate the effectiveness of cyber incident management testing and exercising.
Base Location – Hybrid – Clear Water Court Reading with some days required in the Reading office
Working Pattern – 36 hours
What you should bring to the role
- Ability to take a complex/technical requirement or solution and adapt communications to a non-technical audience so that the business impact can be widely understood.
- Excellent stakeholder communications/engagement skills with the acumen to articulate confidential, sensitive, or important issues and solutions in a nuanced and balanced way
- To have experience in translating incident management risks, challenges, and solutions into quantifiable data/benchmarking.
- An ability to apply original and innovative thinking to produce new ideas.
- Extent experience leading cyber incident response efforts within organisations that rely on both information and operational technology.
- Experience of developing and maintaining incident management plans, procedures and policies.
Desirable
- Knowledge and experience in Cyber Resilience or Incident Management
- Bachelors degree in Computer Science, IT, Cyber Security, or a related field
- Strong knowledge of cyber security frameworks, industry standards/best
What’s in it for you?
It’s an incredibly exciting time to join Team Digital, the best people to tell you why, are the people in our team. Take a look at the video below to find out what they think.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHTW3Vj4j2U&list=PL37gUk7p48rqLEm-KEkgKuyDpLYsW5LH9&index=16
- Competitive salary from £50,000 to £60,000 per annum depending on experience
- Annual Leave - 26 days holiday per year increasing to 30 with the length of service (Plus bank holidays)
- Contributory pension – Defined Contribution - Maximum of 12% -2x employee contribution
- Personal Medical Assessments – Open to all once a year
- Wider benefits scheme including our benefits hub, which is packed full of offers and information to save you money and support your wellbeing
Who are we?
At Thames Water, our purpose is crystal clear - to deliver life’s essential service so our customers, communities and planet can thrive.
Water is life’s great leveller. Every living thing needs it, every single day. From people to plants, birds to bees, farms to factories, we all need it to thrive, and we’re committed to taking care of it for us all.
But keeping water flowing is becoming harder. From scorching summers to wetter winters, extreme weather affects everything from our pipes to our local rivers. We need to keep millions more kettles boiling, public services operating, washing machines spinning, showers running and more, so every drop is more precious than ever. Are you ready to play your part?
Working at Thames Water
At Thames Water we recognise that people are at the heart of our business. To help us succeed in providing life's essential service, we need a range of skills and capabilities, representative of society throughout our business.
We seek to attract and retain a cultural mix of people who can offer different but complementary attitudes, values, talents, and knowledge. We understand the importance of appreciating and harnessing the unique skills, experiences, background, and differences that each individual brings.
Our over-arching diversity and inclusion aim is to ensure Thames Water is a diverse and inclusive great place to work. We encourage applications from everyone and offer extra support for those who need it throughout the recruitment process.
When a crisis happens, we all rally around to support our customers. As part of Team Thames, you’ll have the opportunity to sign up to support our customers on the frontline as an ambassador. Full training will be given for what is undoubtedly an incredibly rewarding experience. It’s also a great opportunity to learn more about our business, meet colleagues and earn some extra money along the way.
Disclaimer: due to the high volume of applications we receive, we may close the advert earlier than the advertised date, so we encourage you to apply as soon as possible to avoid disappointment.
