Cybersecurity Resilience Lead

at  ESB

Vacancy Number: 26247
IT - Cybersecurity
Job Type: Full-time
ESB is a purpose led company striving to create a brighter future for the customers and communities we serve, leading the transition to reliable, affordable, low-carbon energy. Today, we operate one of the most progressive electricity systems in the world, with activities spanning electricity generation, transmission, distribution and supply in Ireland, Northern Ireland and Great Britain, and an international energy consulting business.
With almost 8,000 employees we invested €1bn in infrastructure last year, contributed over €2bn to the economies we operate in and distributed over €2m across a range of community initiatives. This requires us to bring the best of our capabilities together to deliver innovative and value-driven solutions that enable our customers to live low-carbon lives. ESB strives to foster an effective and inclusive culture where people engage, challenge and feel connected to our purpose, colleagues, customers and community.

POSITION DESCRIPTION

Technology plays a leading role in enabling and delivering ESB’s strategy of achieving Net Zero emissions by 2040, but it’s our people who will make this Brighter Future a reality.
With almost 800 people working across our IT Delivery and CIO functions, together we design, build, and support a broad range of technologies and services to deliver on our mission to bring sustainable and competitive energy solutions to all customers. We achieve this by harnessing all our resources, investing in our people, and working collaboratively together.
We operate one of the most advanced and critical technology landscapes in Ireland, managing a vast array of enterprise IT and OT technologies. These technologies reside in our state-of-the art data centres, in our power generation plants, and in our critical operations centres. In addition to enterprise IT applications, databases, and platforms, we also operate critical SCADA systems, OT and Plant/Industrial Controls Systems and critical Telecoms systems – all requiring the appropriate level of security to protect our business.
As a new role under the Cybersecurity Emergency and Incident Management function, the successful candidate will build on ESB’s well-established cybersecurity culture and focus on designing our cybersecurity resilience program. This role will evolve with ESB’s future requirements and the continued evolution of cybersecurity threats and activities. It is imperative for reducing risk to ESB by ensuring our data, systems, and processes are aligned with cybersecurity resilience best practices.

• Lead ESB’s cybersecurity resilience planning.
• Assist in delivering a strategy to respond to and recover from cybersecurity incidents, and IT and OT disasters resulting in outages.
• Provide leadership and mentorship on cybersecurity resilience, documentation, and knowledge management/planning across ESB.
• Assist in the development of resilience plans to effectively recover from a cybersecurity incident and oversee their implementation.
• Ensure that ESB’s cybersecurity resilience function meets all industry regulations, standards, and compliance requirements, eg. CER and NIS2 Directives.
• Liaise with technology system owners to ensure technical backup and recovery plans meet business needs.
• Ensure that ESB’s cybersecurity resilience function communicates ESB security policies and requirements so that relevant staff know, understand, and can follow them.
• Assist in the preparation and execution of crisis and cyber exercises, including an executive crisis management tabletop simulation.
• Collaborate with Business Unit BCP sponsors to enhance business continuity measures to better prepare for a cyber incident.
• Develop and maintain reporting metrics that can effectively measure the maturity and success of the resilience program across the various business units.
• Participate in the development and evaluation of cybersecurity policies, standards, and procedures.