ISM Cyber Specialist
Employer: Police Digital Service
Location: This is a remote role.
Working hours: Full Time
Salary: £70,000 Per Annum
Closing date: Wed, 18 Mar 2026
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About Police Digital Service
To protect people from harm in our rapidly changing world, police services must not only keep up with technology and business changes but develop capabilities and ways of working that will enable them to adapt to and deal with the complexity of modern criminality.
Police Digital Service strives to be the go-to partner for technology developments and programmes across UK policing. Our team provides technical advice and delivers services to help policing and law enforcement organisations across the UK prioritise and focus on technology efforts.
Key Responsibilities
Support the ISM Cyber Delivery Manager, providing specialist advice, reporting and assurance to principal stakeholders
Support implementation of the PDS Cyber Services (CS) strategy, roadmaps and business plans, bids and business cases
Monitor security, technological, social and scientific trends that could influence the National Policing policy
Ensure that outcomes and benefits are maximised from all people, process and technology investments as part of the PDS role in leading delivery for the National Digital Policing Strategy 2020-30
Advise on necessary technical and procedural governance, control systems, standards and procedures
Forge strong relationships with National Policing Programme personnel and key stakeholders across Policing
Work closely with the DDAT and Technical Operations team to manage security decisions
Provide technical and security architectural input and recommendations to the Project and wider CS services
Consult on and develop information security and risk policies, standards and guidelines for National Policing
Apply and implement Secure by Design
Provide security advice, secure solutions and risk identification and quantification for National Policing projects and programmes
Input into the overall National Policing Target Architecture providing specific information security considerations into designs
Proactively provide specialist security advice to representatives of PDS and National policing in line with the demands of the Strategic Portfolio
Essential:
A minimum of 3 years of proven IT/Information security and risk consulting experience in large organisations with complex security and compliance requirements.
Proven experience of delivering security in one or more of the following cloud service provider environments: Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud Platform (GCP). Experience in defining and/or implementing security controls across multiple layers of the IT architecture stack.
Experience in the production of or input to design documentation (HLDs, LLDs, blueprints etc.), supporting cloud architecture design, implementation, operations, and automation in Azure AWS and GCP.
Strong knowledge and ability to demonstrate the use of the NIST Cyber Security Framework, mapping and translating NIST Cyber Security Controls to other frameworks such as ISO27001 and CIS Top 20 controls, including understanding of the Azure Cloud Adoption Framework.
Experience in defining, designing and/or implementing security controls across multiple layers of the IT architecture stack.
Demonstrate a track record of developing strong working relationships with a wide number of stakeholders, particularly in managing expectations across a large number of disparate customer, supplier and stakeholder groups.
For a full list of responsibilities and criteria, please refer to the Candidate Pack.
All applicants must be eligible for NPPV3 and SC clearances. Successful applicants will require NPPV3 clearance to have been approved before starting with PDS.
Why Join us?
Balance is important and we want you to take time off to recharge - we offer 28 days’ annual leave plus bank holidays, rising to 30 days after 5 years of service. Holiday Purchase also available
Flexible working hours - We trust you to do your job and we appreciate that life doesn’t always fit around a 9 to 5 workday. We operate core hours of 10 to 4, Monday to Friday (37hr week)
We care about your well-being - we have an EAP that offers not just welfare benefits but also retail discounts
Plan for the future - we offer an excellent pension scheme and life assurance cover
Put your mind at rest regarding your health - offering remote GP, mental health and physiotherapy appointments via video consultation
Family - Enhanced maternity and paternity pay along with a flexible return to work
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