Check Team Leader

Time left to apply: End Date: February 7, 2025 (25 days left to apply)

Job Requisition ID: R9145

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NCC Group Technical Assurance Services (TAS) is the home of high-end technical excellence in cybersecurity assessment. We employ the world’s sharpest minds to demonstrate security weaknesses to clients before a real attacker can take advantage of them.

Through our ‘attacker’s eye view’, we provide unparalleled advice to help clients secure their assets. We are the largest and most tenured team of its kind in the cybersecurity services market with an uncompromising commitment to deep technical excellence.

Do you have what it takes to be part of the best technical cybersecurity services team around? Come find out!

As a trusted supplier, NCC Group performs a large amount of work within various Government departments or suppliers. To service the demands of our client base whilst providing consultants with a diverse and varied array of projects, we need even more team members to supplement our impressive CHECK team.

At NCC, being a CHECK Team Leader is not just about the qualification, but also the ability to determine the best approach for a client even if the demand for our services is driven by accreditation needs.

Role Responsibilities

The role responsibilities include providing structured programmes of security testing, consultancy, and research combined with the delivery of informative reports detailing engagement activities and their results, with articulation of risk and remediation priorities for clients. In addition to enacting these responsibilities, NCC Group will support you in your continued training and development goals on an individual basis.

The Challenge

• Maintaining a suitable technical qualification for the requirements of the NCSC CHECK Scheme.
• Must hold and maintain a high-level National Security clearance.
• Performing technical engagements in line with NCSC CHECK expectations.
• Delivering high-quality technical reports to clients.
• Delivering workshops to various types of clients’ stakeholders to present testing methodologies and explain findings.
• Provide guidance and mentoring to adjacent teams and team members.
• Providing technical scoping advice and assisting pre-sales where necessary.
• Developing self-skills on internal security projects.
• Conducting focused research when not engaged on client billable projects.
• Ability to travel to client sites to perform security engagements of varying durations when necessary.
• Current CHECK Team Leader status with either or both:
• CTL-WEB
• CTL-INF
• Experience of working both solely and as part of a team.
• Knowledge of cybersecurity principles.
• Writing clear and accurate technical documentation.

Additional Attributes (Advantageous)

• Experience in cloud technologies.
• Experience of working across a range of Government departments.
• Knowledge of cloud security and architect frameworks such as AWS well-architected framework, Cloud Adoption Framework, CIS Standards for Cloud.
• Experience of working in a consultancy setting.
• Experience creating solution architectures and designs.
• Agile certification.
• Use of a variety of network security testing tools and exploits to identify vulnerabilities and be able to recommend corrective action.
• Proven ability to explain the output of a penetration test to a non-technical client.
• Industry standard qualifications such as OSCP, CREST, or CHECK.
• Ability to lead technical teams on client engagements.

Qualifications (Advantageous)

• CREST Certified Simulated Attack Manager (CCSAM).
• CREST Certified Simulated Attack Specialist (CCSAM).
• Amazon Web Services:
• AWS Certified Security.
• AWS Architect Professional.
• AWS Certified Advanced Networking.
• Professional Cloud Security Engineer.
• Professional Cloud Architect.
• Professional DevOps Engineer.
• AZ-500 (Microsoft Azure Security Technologies).
• Microsoft Office 365:
• MS-500 (Microsoft 365 Security Administration).

Why Work with NCC Group?

At NCC, we work together as one team to exceed expectations and add value. We empower each other, take responsibility, communicate openly, and embrace new ideas. With a proactive approach and a commitment to continuous learning, we adapt to change, solve problems, and keep customers at the heart of everything we do.

We aim to create an environment where everyone can reach their full potential. We work together, we are brilliantly creative, we embrace difference, and we want you to join in our mission to make the world safer and more secure.

What We Offer

• Financial & Investment: Pension, Life Assurance, Share Save Scheme, Maternity & Paternity leave.
• Community & Volunteering Programmes.
• Lifestyle & Wellness via Perkbox: access to discounts on gym memberships, cinema tickets, shopping, and more!
• Learning & Development with the goal of personal development and progression.

So, What’s Next?

If this sounds like the right opportunity for you, then we would love to hear from you! Click on apply to this job to send us your CV and the relevant member of our global talent team will be in touch with you. Alternatively, send your details to global.ta@nccgroup.com.

About Your Application

We review every application received and will get in touch if your skills and experience match what we’re looking for. If you don’t hear back from us within 10 days, please don’t be too disappointed – we may keep your CV on our database for any future vacancies and we would encourage you to keep an eye on our career opportunities as there may be other suitable roles.

If you do not want us to retain your details, please email global.ta@nccgroup.com. All personal data is held in accordance with the NCC Group Privacy Policy. We are committed to diversity and flexibility in the workplace. If you require any reasonable adjustments to support you during the application process, please tell us at any stage.

Please note that this role involves mandatory pre-employment background checks due to the nature of the work NCC Group does. To apply, you must be willing and able to undergo the vetting process. This role being advertised will be subject to BS7858 screening as a mandatory requirement.

The NCC Group family has over 2,200 members located all around the world, providing a trusted advisory service to 15,000 customers. Born in the UK, we now have offices in North America, Canada, Europe, Asia-Pacific, and the United Arab Emirates.

We are passionate about helping our customers to protect their brand, value, and reputation against the ever-evolving threat landscape. We fuel that passion with investment in our people and our business.

Our values and code of ethics are at the heart of how we operate – we work together, we are brilliantly creative, and we embrace difference. We treat everyone and everything with equal respect.

We want to create an environment where all colleagues feel psychologically, emotionally, and physically safe to be authentic, sharing their personal experiences to represent the diversity of the world they live in, and have equal opportunity to achieve their best.