Technical Information Security Engineer

Reporting to the Information Assurance and Security Manager, this is a senior technical position in a busy IT Security team which supports and advises the operational Digital Services implementation teams in delivering robust and secure projects and improvements across the Trusts infrastructure.
You will be responsible for designing and leading the Trust's Cyber Security monitoring profiles and risk assessments to protect, and provide assurance for, the Trust's innovations.
Working with other technical teams, clinical and business colleagues, and third parties, you will ensure that a risk-focussed approach will be taken to deliver solutions which are as secure and as flexible as they can be.
You will role-model compassionate and inclusive leadership to other team members, empower others, use coaching to promote quality improvement, and facilitate team working and collaboration within teams.
You will deputise, as required, for the Information Assurance and Security Manager, As a Technical Information Security Engineer you will apply a range of IT experience, skills, and knowledge - networking, endpoint computing, servers, cloud computing, mobile devices, software development - and knowledge and experience of of Cyber Security monitoring and reporting tools to assess and mitigate Cyber risk in the Trust's business and clinical operations.
You will work with suppliers and internal teams to ensure the Trust's cyber toolset is configured to to best effect, and is maintained to provide appropriate monitoring, alerting, and protection. This will involve the regular review and implementation of daily, weekly, and monthly, processes to provide assurance in the face of prevailing threats.
You will take the lead in managing technical security processes which will have a Trust-Wide impact, such as Cyber Security Awareness, Privileged Access Management, and Multifactor Enrolment, and will advise on possible future developments.
You will provide risk assessments as required for the assurance of new or modified, systems, and perform vulnerability assessments across the IT estate, prioritising remediation activities, and working with colleagues to test and deploy.
You will encourage and mentor other staff in the team to help develop their skills.
You will be an active participant in the Trust's cyber-risk management process, recording risk, prioritising and actioning mitigation.
You will provide advice and support to other Digital Services teams., Implement security controls and monitoring in line with the Trusts agreed architecture documentation and decisions.
Ensure all projects and improvements across the Trusts infrastructure are risk-assessed for IT security, and that appropriate controls and monitoring are identified and implemented.
Diagnose and investigate technical IT security issues.
Plan and implement Trustwide IT security mitigation and remediation projects to ensure reduction of associated cyber security risk.
Monitoring the performance of implemented security solutions to identify any issues.
Perform security analysis on networks, firewalls, servers, operating systems, applications and devices.
Working closely with other operational teams to ensure any project work or infrastructure changes are in accordance with security procedures.
Devising plans with the Technical Architect Team to resolve issues and mitigate future issues ensuring plans are in accordance with security procedures.
Responsible for proactively communicating the impact of upcoming security and compliance changes to the organisation.
Uses their up-to-date knowledge of IT security to identify opportunities to use emerging technology to increase security and compliance.
Deputise, as required, for the Information Assurance and Security Manager
Applicants who are members of the Armed Forces, and those who have a disability that requires support in the work place (two ticks pledge) and who meet the essential criteria will be interviewed under the Trust's interview guarantee scheme.
We recognise the positive value of diversity and inclusion and are committed to a workforce that is diverse, equal and inclusive. We welcome and encourage job applications from people of all backgrounds. We particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) candidates as BAME people are currently under-represented in our workforce as well as other under-represented groups such as LGBT+ and disabled candidates. We are proud to be a Disability Confident Employer, a Stonewall Diversity Champion, we have a Gold award from the Defense Recognition Scheme, and we are delighted to support Apprenticeships, Age Posi+ive and are a mindful employer.
If you require any reasonable adjustments to attend interview please make the recruitment team aware as soon as possible by calling our HR Recruitment Team on option 2.
Applicants who meet the Fit and Proper Person Requirements (FPPR) will require additional pre-employment checks in line with CQC and NHS England statutory guidance.
Make sure to read the 'applicant guidance notes' before submitting your application and make sure you know everything there is to know before joining our fantastic trust!
After applying via NHS Jobs, your submitted application will be imported into our preferred Third party recruitment system. All subsequent information regarding your application will be generated from apps.trac.jobs. You will not be able to track the progress of your application or receive messages through the NHS Jobs website, and furthermore, that as an employer, we will not be able to respond to any e-mails sent to us via the NHS Jobs website. By applying for this post, you are agreeing to Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust transferring the information contained in this application to its preferred applicant management system. If you are offered a job information will also be transferred into the national NHS Electronic Staff Records system.
Please note that it is a requirement of this Trust that all successful applicants pay for their own DBS certification if a DBS check is required for the post. The method of payment is a salary deduction from your first monthly pay.

Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work for an organisation that was voted the best acute and combined acute and community trust in the country, based on the experience of its staff (NHS Staff Survey 2022). Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. Sound too good to be true? Well it isn't, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare and, this is…the Northumbria Way!
What the Northumbria Way means for you:
+ Extensive staff health and well-being programme including access to our specialist Wellbeing Hub
+ Support and connection through a variety of Staff Network groups
+ A range of flexible working opportunities
+ Generous annual leave and pension scheme
+ Access to lease car and home electronics scheme (qualifying criteria applies)
+ Opportunities to improve your professional development through our vast training programmes
+ On-site nursery places via salary sacrifice
+ Access to savings scheme via salary sacrifice with Northumberland Community Bank
We are proud to be one of the country's top performing NHS trusts - rated 'outstanding' overall by the Care Quality Commission (CQC). We provide a range of health and care services to support more than 500,000 people living in Northumberland and North Tyneside across the largest geographical area of any NHS Trust in England. Our teams deliver care from hospitals, a range of community venues and people's homes. Our hospitals include a specialist emergency care hospital (the first of its kind in England), three general hospitals and community hospitals. In the community we deliver a wide range of community and public health services.
We lead in innovation and quality, having opened the Northumbria Healthcare Manufacturing and Innovation Hub during the Covid-19 pandemic and have recently launched our Community Promise - a pledge to make a real impact not just in healthcare but on the wider factors that affect people's lives, such as education, employment and the economy.
If Northumbria Healthcare sounds like somewhere you could belong we would love to hear from you. Visit our website to catch up on our latest news., We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, covering one of the largest geographical areas of any NHS trust in the country.
Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients?
You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. Sound too good to be true? Well it isn't, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare, this is the Northumbria Way! Please read 'applicant guidance notes' before submitting your application.