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# Cyber Security Ops. Specialist

- **Company:** BT Group
- **Location:** Cheltenham, UK
- **Salary:** £5,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Software System Penetration Testing, Cyber Security, Cybercrime
- **Published:** October 15, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=14a31bcc9c8ebf46

## About the Role

* Understanding of technical security assurance and compliance processes, ideally within UK frameworks.
 * Varied skills and appreciations across main technical vendors for systems and networks.
 * A good working knowledge of the Incident Management Process
 * Recognised Industry Security Qualifications, ideally lending towards technical security e.g CCP Security Architect, OSCP, Certified Ethical Hacker etc.

Desirable Skills / Experience

 * Membership of accredited professional body e.g Full Member of CIISec
 * Good stakeholder management skills, possible people management experience

## Description

In your role, you'll bring your technical security expertise and consultancy skills to develop and manage many high-profile customer platforms. You will work with a team of experienced security professionals, and together deliver a fantastic experience to our customers, whilst contributing to the protection of the BT brand., As a Technical Cyber Security Specialist, you will provide expertise and consultancy in technology, processes and controls which protects systems, networks and data at the enterprise level.

 * Security design lead, configuring and hardening systems in accordance with defined policy, security and business requirements
 * Lead role in technical security policy compliance
 * Security consulting ownerships into customer and internal systems, which includes 'on-premise', 'off-premise' and cloud-base solutions, ensuring that industry best security practices are maintained throughout their life-cycles
 * Software & Hardware vulnerability testing at an enterprise platform level. Co-ordinate Pen Testing and IT Health check lifecycles, seeing through to completion as a responsible security role.
 * Stakeholder management - you will actively liaise with all customer stakeholders, and maintain necessary relationships, from Senior Management through to engineer to supporting teams. This will be to articulate across both technical and non-technical audiences.
 * Mentor and coach junior colleagues, as part of the team's succession planning and development programmes.
 * Threat hunting & platform remediation - you will need to be able to locate, understand and develop IoCs (indicators of Compromise) and using these IoCs analyse the estate to understand where the vulnerabilities lie.
 * Technical security toolset development and management at an enterprise level