Senior Scientist - Industrial Control System Cyber Security

Senior Scientist - Industrial Control System Cyber Security

12 month contract (extension possible)

Newport - 3 days onsite

£45 per hour, inside IR35 (umbrella)

Subject to BPSS check

Accountabilities

This jobholder will undertake cutting-edge digital security research and innovation activities with the ultimate goal of developing solutions to the business' problems for which a solution doesn't currently exist. Furthermore, the jobholder will build and maintain awareness and knowledge of best-practice technology trends and commercially available digital security solutions.

Accountable for activities in each of the following areas:

Coordination:

• Coordinate Cyber Security innovation across the business to maximise alignment. Build and maintain a working network across the business among subject matter peers and stakeholders. Undertake internal & external engagements on behalf of the digital security office.

Collaboration:

• Collaborate in Cyber Security innovation activities with internal peers, to ensure cyber security is considered in joint projects and deliverables.

Consultancy:

• Provide consultancy services on your specialist area of Cyber Security innovation across the business to ensure knowledge transfer and ensure.

Innovation:

• Deliver innovation projects, activity reports and presentations to cost, quality and time constraints. Build and maintain a research network to support the specialist Cyber Security subject.
• Support the development and maintenance of a Cyber Innovation Roadmap for your specialist area to capture future threats, opportunities and potential projects.

Main activities

Coordination:

• Provide significant contributions to the transition of innovation knowledge and technologies into internal business and digital security operations, including training, presentations and reports.
• Participate in a group-wide cyber innovation steering body.
• Attend and contribute to conferences and events (business/academic).

Collaboration:

• Support external digital security innovation agreements, collaborations and partnerships with specialist subject expertise and industrial/context-of-use guidance.
• Provide expert services (consultancy) to the internal business on the specialist cyber subject, and as required.

Consultancy:

• Contribute knowledge and advice on cyber aspects of your specialist topic to internal peers across the business and digital security operations.
• Manage onboarding and offboarding from projects for optimal use of time and resources.

Innovation:

• Undertake state of the art research projects into digital security topics of interest in support of the business, in partnership with the other members of the Cyber Security Innovation team.
• Maintain awareness of marketed solutions, innovation and gaps, then address gaps by developing and internally marketing prototype solutions.
• Collaborate with academic partners on research, and provide industrial steering.
• Contribute to academic funding bids, internally and with academic contacts.
• Publish technical reports, white papers, patents, academic articles, etc.

Outputs

• Prototype solutions, software, configurations, shared expertise.
• Horizon scans, market studies, technical reports.
• Internal & external proposals

Profile

We are looking for a friendly, enthusiastic, well organised and self-motivated colleague with a personal drive to analyse, innovate and create. The eventual role holder will substantially align with the following criteria (in particular with the "Must Haves").

Academic:
Must Have:

• Bachelors degree in Comp Sci, Comms & Networking, Cyber or similar.
• Recent PhD or Masters relevant to _ICS Cyber Security_.

Advantage:

• Professional training/certifications and experience in Cyber Security.

Experience:
Must Have:

• Industrial Control Security
• Experience of research, innovation and/or solution development.

Advantage:

• Experience of managing digital security and/or R&I projects.
• Cyber industry publication (blogs, SANS articles etc).
• Network Security, Cloud Security.

Research Skills:
Must Have:

• Excellent report writing and presentation skills.
• Excellent spoken and written English.

Advantage:

• Academic publication track record.
• Recent Cyber Security research publications.
• Managing NDAs, IPR, Patent Applications.
• Spoken & written French/German.

Technical skills:
Advantage:

• Programming, esp. Python.
• Design & configuration of IP Networks including virtualised infrastructure.
• Experience configuring network Firewalls, IDS, IPS, Honeypots etc.
• Deep insight into network cyber attacks and their mitigation.
• Basic software development/Scripting/web apps, eg Python, Rust.
• Certifications such as Cisco R&S/CCNA/CCNA-S
• Data Analytics/AI/ML applied to Network Security (tools & techniques).