Job Specifications
Department: Group IT & Security
Location: UK
Description
About us
We are Digital Science and we are advancing the research ecosystem.
We are a pioneering technology company, and our vision is of a future where a trusted and collaborative research ecosystem drives progress for all. We believe in better, open, collaborative and inclusive research. In creating the next generation of tools and working in partnership with the community we tackle some of the biggest challenges to research. In order to achieve our vision, we need innovative, inspiring and dynamic people to join our team. Want to join us?
Your new role
As our Security Operations Lead, you will be part of our Group Information Security team, leading and evolving our Security Operations function to deliver best-in-class technical security architecture, compliance, incident response, and risk management.
This Group Information Security team partners all areas of Digital Science and adds value through delivering all aspects of Information Security, contributing to our strategic growth plans.
Our Security Operations Lead will be a key point of coordination for cyber security control implementation and effectiveness reviews. In this role, you will report to our Deputy CISO and work alongside our Technology , Legal team, Operations team and you have contact with all functional units within Digital Science. In this role, you will be responsible for the smooth running of our Security Operations Centre, the trusted advisory and cyber security partnership for the organisation. This is a prominent role with broad Security Operations accountabilities with professional development objectives to achieve that aim.
Please note - due to business need, we can only accept applications from candidates who reside in the following locations where we have established legal entities: UK, Spain, Germany and Romania.
If you apply from outside of these areas, your application will not be considered.
Please be aware that we may close this position early if we receive a high volume of applications, so we encourage you to apply promptly.
What You’ll Be Doing
Work with various stakeholders from across the group, to ensure security operations practices, policies, and systems are robust, pragmatic and aligned with strategic objectives.
Define, build, and maintain a comprehensive security operations architecture that addresses current and emerging threats.
Manage delivery of cyber security projects and co-ordinate business security initiatives to support the organisation’s security posture and strategic goals.
Provide expert consultancy to technology teams on both reactive (day-to-day issues) and proactive (strategic) security matters.
Maintain Security Operations documentation, records and evidence to support security assessments, audits, and compliance with legal, regulatory and customer requirements.
Oversee and enforce adherence to technical security policies, standards, best practices, and customer requirements.
Lead the monitoring, detection, and investigation of security events & alerts; maintain and improve security control automation, logging, alerting, vulnerability scanning and threat detection capabilities.
Own incident response procedures; coordinate incident handling, ensure relevant stakeholders and third parties are engaged, lead follow-up actions until resolution.
Manage and oversee security testing: internal automated technical controls capture and scans, third-party assessments, penetration tests, ensuring findings are tracked and remediated.
Ensure security controls and processes are integrated across systems, applications, and cloud infrastructure.
Develop KPIs, SLAs, dashboards to measure and report performance, including response times, false positives, remediation progress etc.
Stay up-to-date with regulatory/compliance frameworks (e.g. EU Cyber Resilience Act, EU AI Act, ISO 27001, GDPR, PCI-DSS, NIST,NCSC), threat landscape changes and emerging technologies.
Work across the organisation and beyond to promote best practice across Digital Science, making recommendations for improvements to cyber security practices in line with industry standards and learnings from security incidents.
Prepare cyber security responses and evidence for internal and external parties.
Take an active role in information security forums, councils and communities within and outside of the organisation.
What You’ll Bring To The Role
You’re experienced with implementing and managing SIEM, SOAR, EDR/XDR, vulnerability scanners, DLP, firewalls, intrusion detection/prevention systems, data loss prevention etc.
You have knowledge of cloud platforms, virtualization, logging infrastructure etc and the ability to tune alerts, reduce noise, monitor logs, detect anomalies.
You are familiar with known frameworks like MITRE ATT&CK, OWASP, etc
You are highly experienced with responding to security events/incidents, coordinating with stakeholders, executing post-incident reviews, do
About the Company
Digital Science is an AI-focused technology company providing innovative solutions to complex challenges faced by researchers, universities, funders, industry and publishers. We work in partnership to advance global research for the benefit of society.
Through our brands – Altmetric, Dimensions, Figshare, ReadCube, Symplectic, IFI CLAIMS Patent Services, Overleaf, Writefull, OntoChem, Scismic and metaphacts – we believe when we solve problems together, we drive progress for all.
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