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Technical Security Specialist

Employer
Aviva
Location
Bristol
Salary
Competitive
Closing date
14 Oct 2022

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Are you a confident security specialist? The UK CISO will also be responsible for driving forward standards of excellence within security and through discussions with the Group CISO setting the local strategy and contributing into the group strategy for security.

A bit about the job:
In this role you will work closely with the Security Engagement leads to provide technical and non-technical support and will be responsible for day-to-day information risk consultancy, IT security, ensuring confidentiality, integrity and availability of the company's data assets and supporting infrastructure to an agreed framework of controls. In addition, you will also be supporting and working closely with IT, business partners, senior management and external partners to provide IT security design consultancy, expertise to the company projects, programmes, BAU activities.

The team are accountable for security risk management, proactive security support, and security assurance. You will be responsible for managing security risks and ensuring that security operational requirements are met or exceeded, as well as driving forward the global security strategic integration programmes and be the key interface from a security leadership perspective with the UKI CIO's, ensuring adequate budget, resource, and management focus on managing security risks. The UK CISO will act as the control and facilitation point for security related tasks and activities, which are executed in the broader local organisation in order to ensure a reliable end to end chain of responsibility from group to local execution.

Skills and experience we're looking for:
  • You will need to form tight-knit relationships with business stakeholders, communicate in a clear and respectful manner and have an excellent ability to influence and apply pragmatism whilst managing contending demands
  • Broad experience of security management concepts, based on operating within dedicated technical and security operations roles. Previous experience of working with IT Risk management, secure development, authentication mechanisms and security architecture principles of considerable value
  • Knowledge of governance processes and practices, including ISMS control frameworks such as, ISO, ISF and COBIT, their relationships to other frameworks and the application within financial services. The ability to use some interpretation of guidelines and procedures to deal with exceptions and make appropriate risk decisions which support business goals and minimise impacts/consequences
  • Demonstrates the ability to identify critical data connections and patterns and to conduct in-depth analysis to reach logical conclusions. Verifying assumptions and information before accepting and able to reviews others work and provide constructive feedback
  • Is able to produce in-depth written material which uses correct grammar, spelling and punctuation

What you'll get for this role:
  • Starting salary of £45,000 - £50,000 (depending on location, skills, experience, and qualifications)
  • Generous pension (starting level Aviva contributes 8% when you contribute 2%)
  • Eligibility for annual performance bonus
  • Family friendly parental and carer's leave
  • 29 days holiday per year plus bank holidays and the option to buy/sell up to 5 additional days
  • Up to 40% discount for Aviva products
  • Brilliant flexible benefits including electric cars
  • Aviva Matching Share Plan and Save As You Earn scheme
  • 21 volunteering hours per year

Aviva is for everyone:

We are inclusive and welcome everyone - we want applications from people with diverse backgrounds and experiences.
Excited but not sure you tick every box? Research tells us that women, particularly, feel this way. So, regardless of gender, why not apply. And if you're in a job share just apply as a pair.

We flex locations, hours and working patterns to suit our customers, business, and you.
Most of our people are smart working - spending around 60% of their time in our offices and 40% at home.

To find out more about working at Aviva take a look here

We interview every disabled applicant who meets the minimum criteria for the job. Once you've applied, please send us an email stating that you have a disclosed disability, and we'll interview you.

We'd love it if you could submit your application online. If you require an alternative method of applying, please give Tawana Chin a call on 07787 251496 or send an email to tawana.chin@aviva.com .

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