Head of Guernsey Cyber Defence

The Guernsey Cyber Security Centre (GCSC) is the national Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT) for Guernsey. GCSC is responsible for promoting and improving the cyber resilience across the Island's critical national infrastructure, business communities and citizens to reduce the likelihood and impact of major cyber incidents in Guernsey. The Head of Guernsey Cyber Defence will lead the operational activity of the GCSC as part of the senior management team of the Jersey & Guernsey Cyber Security Centres (CSCs), promoting and improving the cyber resilience in Guernsey and its community of organisations, business and citizens. The role will focus on providing advice and support to organisations and residents in the Channel Islands (with a specific focus on the Bailiwick of Guernsey) as well as leading technical incident response coordination, support for the States of Guernsey and other bodies, and local engagement and threat intelligence supported by the wider CSC team.The postholder will be responsible for the operational leadership in Guernsey of the CSC’s incident management services including incident triage, incident coordination, the identification of response strategies and, in the event of a major attack, the prioritisation of the deployment of commercial incident response providers under emergency powers legislation.Closing date is 30th March