TECHNICAL ICT SECURITY OFFICER

Hull City Council is seeking a skilled and enthusiastic Technical ICT Security Officer to join our Enterprise Cybersecurity Team. If you're motivated by protecting services that impact thousands of people across the city, this is a role where your expertise will truly make a difference.

This is a key position responsible for safeguarding critical ICT systems, owning and coordinating cyber incident response, and strengthening the Council's overall security posture.

You will act as a specialist point of escalation for information security matters, providing expert advice across a wide range of security domains. Working closely with technical teams, project leadership, system owners, and external partners, you will help ensure our systems remain secure, compliant, and resilient in an evolving threat landscape., As our Technical ICT Security Officer, you will:

• Own and coordinate the Cyber Incident Response process, ensuring rapid and effective investigation, containment, and recovery from ICT security incidents.
• Conduct detailed technical assessments of systems, networks, infrastructure, and processes to identify vulnerabilities and oversee remediation within agreed timescales.
• Provide specialist information security advice to ICT colleagues, project managers, service areas, and system owners to ensure solutions meet required security standards and controls.
• Carry out vulnerability scanning of internal and external networks, applications, and websites, maintaining ownership of remediation action plans.
• Audit hardware and software configurations, documenting exceptions and ensuring alignment with recommended good practice.
• Keep up to date with emerging threats, attack trends, security technologies, and compliance requirements to enhance the Council's security architecture.
• Support security awareness activities that help build good security behaviours across the organisation, including planning and delivering wider awareness initiatives.
• Contribute to governance, risk and compliance (GRC) activities, including support for external security and assurance requirements.
• Support the secure use of cloud services by advising on cloud security controls, monitoring approaches and best practice configurations.
• Support major ICT incidents, cyber emergencies, or disaster recovery situations as required.

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• Strong understanding of information security principles, threats, and best-practice controls.
• Good high-level knowledge of ICT infrastructure components such as operating systems, networks (LAN/WAN/VLAN), firewalls, web technologies, and monitoring tools.
• Experience using vulnerability scanning tools and applying security-hardening techniques in a complex environment.
• Understanding of cloud security principles and secure configurations and monitoring in cloud environments.
• Awareness of governance, risk and compliance (GRC) practices and how external assurance requirements are supported in an ICT context.

Skills and behaviours

• Clear, confident communication and the ability to explain technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.
• Able to influence and engage non-technical audiences to encourage secure behaviours and consistent adoption of policies and controls.
• Strong analytical skills with excellent attention to detail.
• Ability to prioritise workload independently and work effectively under pressure.
• A positive, customer-focused approach and commitment to service improvement.

You will bring relevant experience in ICT and cybersecurity, supported by appropriate technical knowledge. Formal qualifications or professional development in information security, ICT, or related disciplines are welcome, and security-focused certifications would be an advantage.

By joining Hull City Council, you will play a direct role in protecting critical public services relied upon by residents, businesses, and communities. You'll be joining a supportive, collaborative ICT service where professional development and continuous improvement are genuinely valued. This is an opportunity to contribute to strengthening the Council's digital resilience and help shape the future of our cybersecurity approach., Why Hull is a great place to live and work - Working for Hull City Council Please ensure that you complete and submit your application by midnight on the closing date. We are committed to increasing the diversity, equity, and inclusion within our workforce to represent the people we serve and build an environment in which everyone can feel like they belong. We encourage people from all backgrounds to apply. We adopt a 'name blind' approach to shortlisting. Recruiting managers will not have access to personal information, including your name and contact details, until a shortlisting decision has been made. Equality monitoring information is not accessible by recruiting managers at any stage. We reserve the right to amend the dates associated with this advert, which may include closing the advert early where required. The Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all employees and volunteers to share this commitment. Any offer of employment to the above post will be subject to receipt of a satisfactory Basic Disclosure from the Disclosure & Barring Service. Hull City Council embraces the principles of WorkSmart and this post has been identified as a suitable role. WorkSmart principles create opportunities facilitating a combination of working in the office, ad hoc homeworking, or working from various locations, therefore being flexible about where/ how you carry out your role, the specific opportunities available will be discussed at interview.   You must create an Indeed account before continuing to the company website to apply