Infrastructure Security and Resilience Manager

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About The Role

Let's grow together!

A Platinum Investors in People employer and an award-winning UK bank, focused on growth. Our customers include savers and businesses across the UK and, working together, we use our specialist expertise to help them achieve their ambitions and build a sustainable future. If you're an IT Infrastructure Security and Resilience Manager looking for an opportunity to grow in a friendly environment, we're looking for you!

We're flexible, inclusive, committed to your wellbeing and passionate about you reaching your potential. Let's grow together ...

What you'll be doing

As the IT Infrastructure Security and Resilience Manager at Paragon Bank, you'll play a crucial role in ensuring Paragon's infrastructure is secure and resilient. Your responsibilities will include:

• Team Management: Overseeing a team of 2 Security Analysts indirectly with a Team Leader as a direct report.
• SOC Performance Management: Ensuring that our Outsourced SOC provide and internal analysist deliver a best in call security operations service and acting as a key point of escalation for incidents.
• Vulnerability Management: Oversee the vulnerability management programme for infrastructure and cloud technologies ensuring identification and mitigation within acceptable timeframes whilst also driving a continual improvement initiative
• Obsolescence Management: Ensuring a horizon plan is created and maintained for all obsolescence under the Infrastructure and Cloud remit in line with budget cycles to ensure any obsolescence is known and planned for.
• Disaster Recovery Planning: Taking ownership of DR planning for Infrastructure technologies, working closely with other IT stakeholders to ensure and clear DR roadmap is created and delivered against ensuring the right resources and 3rd parties are aligned in a timely manner.

What you'll bring to the team

About You

What you'll bring to the team

As well as a combination of technical experience coupled with management ability, you'll need

• Experience in Cyber Security practices (ideally experience managing a 3rd party SOC provider)
• Experience in vulnerability management practices and technology (ideally Tenable)
• Experience in managing end-of-life processes in relation to hardware, software and cloud services would be desirable.
• Demonstrable experience in line managing technical engineers
• Strong interpersonal abilities with excellent proficiency in written and oral communication
• Ability to work under pressure, taking the lead on critical issues to ensure a fast resolution whilst managing key stakeholders
• Proactively analyse potential risks and manage their mitigation in alignment with Paragon's risk framework.

Even if you don't meet all the criteria, we encourage you to apply. At Paragon, we value diversity and we're excited to hear from passionate individuals like you! If you're ready to contribute to the team, please apply.

Further information on the role can be found in the Purpose and Performance Profile (PPP), which is downloadable on this page.

About Us

Working hours

37.5 Hours a week through a hybrid model of working driven by the needs of the business. The requirement would be a minimum of one day in the office a week.

Inclusion

As a Disability Confident Employer, we want to ensure that our vacancies are accessible for everyone. If you have a disability, long term health condition or are neurodiverse and need us to adjust our recruitment process please get in touch with our recruitment team.

What can we offer you?

Generous Holiday Allowance: Starting from 25 days and climbing to 30, you alsoget to enjoy a day off for your birthday, Christmas Eve, and New Year's Eve. You can also buy or sell up to a week's leave

• Share Save Scheme: Annually, you have the opportunity to buy shares in Paragon at a discounted rate
• Profit Related Pay: We share some of our annual profit with our eligible employees
• Pension Plan: We contribute up to 10% of your annual salary towards your pension
• Family Friendly policies: We offer enhanced parental pay and paid time off for fertility treatment
• Employee Discounts: Enjoy exclusive discounts on entertainment, travel, shopping, motoring and more
• Volunteering Day: Contribute to causes you care about with one volunteering day per year
• Life Assurance and Personal Accident Cover

Be flexible

We promote flexibility around how and where we work so that you can achieve a healthier work-life balance. We operate hybrid working, splitting our week between the office and home.

Be yourself

As an equal opportunities employer, we welcome diversity and care about inclusion. That's why we want you to be your whole self at work. We believe an inclusive workplace is good for each of us, great for our customers and better for our business. Our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Network meets regularly to share challenges, experience, and ideas to build a more equal, diverse, and inclusive business.

Be heard

We listen to your point of view, with our People Forum and regular employee surveys making sure you can use your voice and influence our future.

Be well

We will give you access to a range of tools and resources to support your wellbeing. This will include a digital GP service via our free Employee Assistance Programme, access to our Wellbeing team to connect you with the help you need to get more out of life and our Vitality at Work programme to provide you with discounted gym membership, fitness equipment and another multitude of wellbeing services.

Be better

We want you to reach your potential and, as a Platinum Investors in People employer, we'll encourage you to learn and develop by building a personalised development plan together with your manager.