Cyber Security Technologist Apprentice

Type: Apprentice
Region: London

As an apprentice, your 2-year, development programme will be made up of a series of placement rotations throughout the Cyber Security team, for example: with the Security Operations Centre (SOC), the Advisory team, the Cyber Engineering team and the Assurance team. Our aim is to give you the skills and breadth of experience you need for your successful career. We also understand that everyone’s career is different, so every apprentice’s journey is unique. Here’s an idea of what yours could look like:

Year 1

Placement 1 – SOC – 12 Months

Responding to security alerts and tickets

Working with SIEM tool and designing alerts

Assisting with vulnerability management

Researching threats and creating threat intelligence reports

Assisting with security incidents

Placement 2 – Assurance – 4 Months

Policies, procedures and guidance – Ensure policies are up to date and the corresponding procedures and guidance can be understood and implemented by all colleagues

3rd party supplier assurance – Ensure our suppliers who provide a service to TfL are adhering to any cyber security clauses within their respective contract

Help to coordinate penetration testing against TfL’s environments to best help security efforts.

Placement 3 – Advisory – 4 Months

Oversee the lifecycle of a project providing cyber security advice to both, IT and OT projects

Reviewing high level and low-level designs

Facilitating security testing

Supporting incident response exercising

Conduct cyber security assessments

Supporting cyber security awareness activities

Placement 4 – Engineering – 4 Months

The engineering function feeds directly into the SOC, responsible for developing the use cases/alerts used by the SOC to respond

Ensure the various tools used by the Cyber Security team are running and being used as effectively as possible

Monitor the logs of the TfL estate and correlate to the current threats being used by attacker to generate effective and preventative alerts

There is flexibility for apprentices to tailor their scheme to their interests, with several placements available within the various Cyber Security teams. We are aware that some apprentices start with, or develop during their placements, an interest to a technology area and we want to ensure you get the most from your apprenticeship with TfL. We recommend the first placement be within the SOC team. This will teach you important, foundational skills and develop your understanding of corporate cyber security whilst also providing you valuable hands-on experience. This placement will also give you chance to learn how the TfL Cyber Security Operations Centre works and protects our infrastructure and services.