Senior Cyber Incident Manager

Senior Cyber Incident Manager 

Salary: Circa £65,000 

Locations: Bristol, Birmingham, Leeds, Norwich, Sheffield, York, Glasgow, Perth or Leatherhead

This is a great job for someone who wants to play a key role to drive the incident response life cycle for serious cyber incidents by ensuring that the relevant parts of the business are engaged and activated to undertake the actions needed to reduce impact on our business. 

Working as part of the Group Cyber Security Incident Management function the role will provide Cyber Incident Management services to Aviva markets, supporting regulatory, IT Security best practice, policy, and business requirements.

Assume breach.

This is now the mindset that cyber security professionals must adopt to deal with persistent and capable adversaries. We need to detect and respond to a breach quickly, contain it and understand what has happened to minimise the impact on the business.

Skilful detection and response depend on having the right people, processes, and technologies in place to respond quickly and effectively to breaches.

A bit about the job: 

This is an exciting hands-on opportunity to work at the forefront of cyber defence operations, delivering D&R’s and Aviva’s wider mission through reducing the impact of cyber incidents.

You’ll drive the response to higher severity cyber incidents through the best practice life cycle and ensure root cause analysis is performed to support improvement of our controls.

The role focuses on stakeholder engagement and coordination and whilst we seek candidates with a strong Incident

Management or Response background, we are also looking for someone who has strong cyber security and risk management demonstrable experience.

The way we operate is evolving, and you’ll have an opportunity to influence decisions regarding our capability development roadmap. This is a role with expectations of previous experience in incident response and or incident management. 

 
Skills and experience we’re looking for 

• Incident commander to lead, manage and own high severity cyber security incidents, directing effective and timely response activities through a coordinated and structured approach across business stakeholder 

•  Strong awareness of incident response principles and a technical understanding of how Threat Actors operate. Adept at collating and reviewing both technical and non-technical information to ensure that response actions are appropriate and delivered in a timely manner.  

• Ability to act autonomously as well as part of the team. Taking ownership of the work, protecting the business and customers by managing the risk effectively 

• Strong written reporting and verbal communication skills; in particular the ability to deliver appropriate information across the spectrum of incident resolver group participant 

• Be an active member of the out of hours on call team, providing 24/7 incident support. 

 Technical skills we’re looking for 

• Expectations of previous experience in incident response and or incident management

• Ideally at least one of the following certifications, such as GCIH, GCIA, CEH, CISSP, CySA+ or similar

• Nice to have, a degree in computer science, information security, or related field, or equivalent relevant experience

What you’ll get for this role 

Our purpose – with you today, for a better tomorrow – is a promise we make to our colleagues too. And one of the ways we bring that to life is by investing in you.  

• Salary: Circa £65000 (depending on location, skills, experience and qualifications).  

• Bonus opportunity 10% of annual salary - Actual amount depends on your performance and Aviva’s      

• Generous pension scheme - Aviva will contribute up to 14%, depending on what you put in      

• 29 days holiday plus bank holidays, and you can choose to buy or sell up to 5 days      

• Aviva-funded Private Medical Benefit to help you get expert support when you need it   

• Make your money go further - Up to 40% discount on Aviva products, and other retailer discounts   

• Up to £1,200 of free Aviva shares per year through our Matching Share Plan and share in the success of Aviva with our Save As You Earn scheme   

• Brilliantly supportive policies including parental and carer’s leave    

• Flexible benefits to suit you, including sustainability options such as cycle to work    

• Make a difference, be part of our Aviva Communities and use your 3 paid volunteering days to help others   

• We take your wellbeing seriously with lots of support and tools   

• Take a look to learn more.  Put a salary into this calculator to see what your total Aviva Reward could be.  

Aviva is for everyone:   

• We’re inclusive and welcome everyone – we want applications from all backgrounds and experiences. Excited but not sure you tick every box? Even if you don’t, we would still encourage you to apply. We also consider all forms of flexible working, including part time and job shares.  

• We flex locations, hours and working patterns to suit our customers, business, and you. Most of our people are smart working – spending at least 50% of their time in our offices every week - combining the benefits of flexibility, with time together with colleagues.   

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

• We’d love it if you could submit your application online. If you require an alternative method of applying, please give Kirthi a call on 02045922145 or send an email to kirthi.kanikireddy@aviva.com