OverviewCyber Operations purpose is to support safe care and build public trust by building NHS England’s cyber resilience and enabling the wider health system to be cyber resilient, supporting Transformation Directorate’s purpose of delivering the best care and outcomes for the NHS.

Cyber Operations Sub-directorate Consists Of 4 Operational Areas:

Cyber Security Operations Unit (CSOU)

Cyber Delivery Unit (CDU)

Cyber Improvement Programme

Chief Information Security Office Function (CISO)

ResponsibilitiesTo support our strategy to improve NHS England’s cyber resilience, we are recruiting for a

Cyber Security Analyst who is a Threat Hunting specialist . This role is within the Cyber Security - Threat Hunting team, which is one of three core pillars of the Threat Operations pod within NHS England’s CSOU. The Threat Hunting team is responsible for several key functions:

Multi-Platform Threat Hunting at Scale – Run hunting queries and analytics across large datasets using a variety of cloud-based and hybrid security solutions.

Custom Analytic and Detection Development – Writing and reviewing custom rules to deploy against national monitoring solutions to provide specialised monitoring to NHS bodies against common threat actor tactics and techniques.

Specialist Incident Support – Providing technical support to CSOU IM function and NHS organisations where appropriate during high complexity incidents.

Main Duties Of The Role Include

Threat Hunt in Extended Detection and Response (XDR) and SIEM tooling.

Deputies for the Cyber Security Senior Analyst (Threat Hunting) in their absence.

Develop capability in support of Threat Operations requirements, including coding and technology development.

Act as a technical support in advanced forensic investigations in support of Security Operations function.

Simulate adversary tactics, techniques, and procedures in support of detection development.

Perform dynamic and static analysis of malicious programs and tools where relevant in support of detection development.

Development of automation workflows and playbooks to support threat hunting team workload.

Organisational Purpose

The NHS England Board Have Set Out the Top-level Purpose For The New Organisation To Lead The NHS In England To Deliver High-quality Services For All, Which Will Inform The Detailed Design Work And We Will Achieve This Purpose By:

Enabling local systems and providers to improve the health of their people and patients and reduce health inequalities.

Making the NHS a great place to work, where our people can make a difference and achieve their potential.

Working collaboratively to ensure our healthcare workforce has the right knowledge, skills, values and behaviours to deliver accessible, compassionate care.

Optimising the use of digital technology, research, and innovation.

Delivering value for money.

If you would like to know more or require further information, please visit https://www.england.nhs.uk/.

Colleagues with a contractual office base are expected to spend, on average, at least 40% of their time working in-person.

Staff recruited from outside the NHS will usually be appointed at the bottom of the pay band.

If you are successful at interview, we will run an Inter Authority Transfer (IAT) in the Electronic Staff Record system (ESR). This transfer gathers valuable information from a previous or current NHS employer to support the onboarding process, including; statutory and mandatory competency status, Continuous Service Dates (CSD), and annual leave entitlement. You will have the opportunity throughout the recruitment process to inform us if you do not consent.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Ben MageeJob title: Security Lead (Analyst)Email address: england.cyberoperationsrecruitment@nhs.net

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