Salary: starting at £80,000

We are Together - a specialist lender with over 50 years experience, and a loan book topping £6 billion. We're a team of over 750 colleagues and continuing to grow.

Lending year-in, year-out, we've grown to into one of the finance industry's best-kept secrets. We play our part to turn challenges into opportunities that make our customers' financial ambitions accessible.

As a Cyber Security Manager, you will be accountable for the effective Management of the Cyber Security team consisting of engineers and analysts, along with acting as Product owner for the Cyber Security Agile Train responsible for defining PBI’s and prioritizing the team backlog in order to streamline the execution of priorities, whilst maintaining the technical integrity of the features and components of the team .

Managing the provision of cyber security services for the protection of the business’s digital and data assets, including the design and operations for these services. Responsible for continuously improving our Capability Maturity in the area of cyber security.

• Effective line management & leadership of the cyber security team consisting of Network & Cyber engineers, and Cyber analysts.
• Support the Group Services COO in the development, documentation and socialisation of the Cyber Security Strategy, and update on progress against this.
• Develop and maintain security and cloud architecture artifacts (models, templates, standards and procedures) that can be used to leverage security capabilities in projects and operations
• Develop a programme of continuous improvement in the capability maturity of the cyber security function
• Participate in application and infrastructure initiatives to provide security planning and design advice
• Ensuring timely response to all alerts and effective triage/communication/escalation as appropriate
• Conduct threat modelling of services and applications that tie to the risk and data associated with the service or application
• Validate IT infrastructure and other reference architectures for security best practices, and recommend changes to enhance security and reduce risk where applicable.
• Represent cyber security in Change Advisory Board and Technical Design Authority meetings.
• Ensure the effective ongoing management of vulnerabilities within the technical estate
• Review, assess, and mitigate penetration tests and vulnerability assessments on information systems and infrastructure
• Management and assessment of external threat trends and environment remediation.
• Ensuring the documentation and maintenance of security assaults, threats, risks & controls.
• Ensure appropriate contextual risk management is performed in line with business risk appetite
• Ensure ongoing compliance with system update and hardening requirements
• Ensure audit trails, system logs and other monitoring data sources are reviewed periodically and are in compliance with policies and audit requirements
• Creation, analysis and communication of security metrics to Group Services COO

Requirements

• Proven Experience of leading an Cyber security management function within a regulated industry
• Proven ability to work under stress in emergencies, with the flexibility to handle multiple high-pressure situations simultaneously
• Demonstrable experience of alert & log analysis and other attack artifacts
• Experience of cyber security strategy and roadmap development
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to form effective working relationships with other staff and stakeholders
• Confident in communicating technical cyber security risks, incidents and threats to non-technical staff and stakeholders
• Determination and tenacity to drive service and security improvements across the business and the ability to assess effectiveness of control measures and making improvement suggestions
• Strong knowledge and experience with security frameworks such as NIST & CIS.
• Proven hands-on operational experience within cyber security with a broad knowledge of the subject
• Ability to work well under minimal supervision

• CISM or CISSP certified
• CCSP
• CCNA

Benefits working at Together

• 26 days holiday, (increasing with service) your birthday off, and bank holidays
• Buy & sell holidays
• Discretionary annual bonus
• Matched pension contribution
• Life assurance
• Critical illness cover
• Health cash plan
• Private medical insurance
• Free access to company holiday homes
• Travel season ticket loans
• Ride to work scheme
• Free local gym access
• Local bar / restaurant discounts

Together Money embraces diversity and inclusion, and are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. Not only do we welcome difference – we celebrate it, support it and really value our colleagues for who they are. We are committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives and skills.

Please note that all successful applicants will undergo relevant employment reference, financial and criminal record checks.