Advanced Apprentice Cyber Security Technician – Technology Enablement (Information Management and Technology)

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Job title: Advanced Apprentice Cyber Security Technician – Technology Enablement

Location: Barrow

We offer relocation support packages for this role (Barrow-in-Furness based roles), subject to meeting eligibility criteria.

Salary: We offer a competitive salary with annual increases throughout the apprenticeship and a range of employee benefits including, free higher education as well as access to the Company pension and share saving scheme

What you’ll be doing:

Through a rotation of placements, you will also have the opportunity to learn about other areas of Technology Enablement and the business, putting our security requirements into context. To support your learning and development and to compliment your studies, you will work with our experienced teams who will mentor and coach you whilst working on real life tasks.

Within the Submarines business, we have three Technology Enablement Security Teams;

• Cyber Security Architecture & Services


• Information Security


• Supplier Security Assurance

A lot of the work that these teams undertake involves supporting incident and vulnerability management, security breach investigation, strengthening and enhancing how we protect our information and IT infrastructure, increasing security awareness and ensuring that internal and external colleagues comply with our policies and our security requirements.

• Gain an insight into the development, definition, management and delivery of Cyber Incident Response – including documentation and testing.


• Develop an understanding of the security architecture across all IT infrastructure, networks, systems and applications – both in projects and ad-hoc.


• Understand the importance of Information Security and applies this to their own work and operations within the organisation


• Communicate security risks and issues to business managers and others and then applies and maintains specific security controls as required by organisational policy and local risk assessments.


• Support incident/ issue and vulnerability management. Support the investigation of minor security breaches in accordance with established procedures.


• Assist users in defining their access rights and privileges. Perform non-standard security administration tasks and resolves security administration issues.


• Provide advice and guidance to business stakeholders on security best practice and application of Security policies and processes in order to ensure compliance and/or risk management facilitating delivery of business objectives in line with contractual obligations and corporate standards.


• Gather data, analyse and prepare reports or presentations to feed information back to teams/managers.


• Conduct and support security risk assessments and facilitates remedial activities to improve security performance.

Benefits:

As well as a competitive pension scheme, BAE Systems also offers employee share plans, an extensive range of flexible discounted health, wellbeing & lifestyle benefits, including a green car scheme, private health plans and shopping discounts – you may also be eligible for an annual incentive.

The Submarines team:

Our Submarines business has been safely delivering world class submarines to the UK Royal Navy for more than a century.

The Astute class will equip the Royal Navy with its largest and most capable generation of attack submarines. We are responsible for the design, build, test and commissioning of these state-of-the-art vessels. In total, seven boats will make up the fleet, each weighing a mighty 7,400 tonnes.

Dreadnought is the successor to the Vanguard class of nuclear deterrent submarines. We will deliver four submarines to the Royal Navy, with the first submarine entering service in the early 2030s. Dreadnought is widely considered to be one of the world’s most complex engineering challenges.

Why BAE Systems?

This is a place where you’ll be able to make a real difference. You’ll be part of an inclusive culture that values diversity, rewards integrity and merit, and where you’ll be empowered to fulfil your potential. We welcome candidates from all backgrounds and particularly from sections of the community who are currently under represented within our industry, including women, ethnic minorities, people with disabilities and LGBTQ+ individuals.

We also want to make sure that our recruitment processes are as inclusive as possible. If you have a disability or health condition (for example dyslexia, autism, an anxiety disorder etc.) that may affect your performance in certain assessment types, please speak to your recruiter about potential reasonable adjustments.

Export Control / Security:

Please be aware that many roles at BAE Systems are subject to both security and export control restrictions. These restrictions mean that factors such as your nationality, any nationalities you may have previously held, and your place of birth can restrict the roles you are eligible to perform within the organisation. All applicants must as a minimum achieve Baseline Personnel Security Standard. Many roles also require higher levels of National Security Vetting where applicants must typically have 5 to 10 years of continuous residency in the UK depending on the vetting level required for the role, to allow for meaningful security vetting checks.

5 GCSE A*-C or 9-4 (or equivalent) Including Maths & English