Job vacancy: Senior Information Security Engineer, East Midlands Ambulance Service NHS Trust, Nottingham

Job summary

Main area

Cyber Security

Grade

NHS AfC: Band 7

Contract

Permanent: Hybrid working

Hours

Full time
Flexible working

37.5 hours per week (Monday - Friday)

Job ref

335-A-2003-A

Employer: East Midlands Ambulance Service NHS Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: Home Based
Town: Nottingham
Salary: £49,387 - £56,515 per annum
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 10/07/2026 23:59

Senior Information Security Engineer

NHS AfC: Band 7

We are East Midlands Ambulance Service (EMAS), an organisation focused on delivering a high standard of emergency and urgent care to our patients across the region.

The East Midlands Ambulance Service NHS Trust (EMAS) provides Emergency, Urgent and Non-Emergency pre-hospital care and transport across six counties (Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire, Lincolnshire, Leicestershire & Rutland and Northamptonshire).

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The Senior Information Security Engineer is a senior technical specialist responsible for protecting the organisation’s information assets, systems, and infrastructure from cyber threats. The role provides hands-on technical expertise across cyber security engineering, incident response, vulnerability management, and secure system design, working closely with Infrastructure, Digital Services, and third‑party suppliers.

The post holder will investigate complex security issues, implement effective technical controls, and provide expert advice to ensure systems are secure, resilient, and compliant with national cyber security requirements. The role supports a busy operational environment and contributes directly to maintaining the availability, integrity, and confidentiality of critical services and sensitive data.

You will have a minimum of 5 years IT experience in an Information Cyber Security role.

You will be able to re-organise workloads due to unexpected events and be capable of analysing a range of highly complex IT problems. You will be able to work well within a team and be happy to work autonomously for long periods of time.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

Degree in an associated IT subject or 5 years experience
Evidence of continuing professional development in Information Security
Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) certification

Desirable criteria

ITIL Foundation
Post graduate qualification in IT related subject
Relevant professional qualifications

Experience

Essential criteria

Minimum 5 years’ equivalent demonstrable experience within a similar Information Security ition including technical troubleshooting
Experience in third level security analysis and interpretation of highly complex data.
Experience of patching servers and endpoints
Experience of security tools and vulnerability scanners

Knowledge and Skills

Essential criteria

Ability to produce technical reports and documentation to a wide-ranging audience
Capable of analysing and resolving highly complex IT problems
Able to present to a variety of audiences on complex issues
Ability to make judgements independently of senior managerial support to support on call (out of hours) responsibilities
Demonstrates leadership and management skills

Personal Attributes

Essential criteria

Able to work under intense pressure and make informative decisions in a reactive environment.
Able to use judgement and negotiate on complex or contentious issues with conflicting priorities
Able to re-prioritise in response to unexpected situations
Ability to complete daily tasks unsupervised
Strong organisational, management and time management skills
Able to concentrate for long periods of time
Standard keyboard skills
Able to work at PC for more than 85% of the working day
Must be a UK driving license holder, car driver and owner and able to travel to various locations across the EMAS region

The East Midlands has a lot to offer:

Excellent Location

Making a Difference

Action Packed Roles

Support and Belonging

Accessibility

If you have any accessibility requirements at any point during the recruitment process, then please contact the recruiting manager.

If you haven’t heard back from us within eight weeks of the closing date please consider your application unsuccessful.

Due to the high volume of applications received we are unable to provide updates on the progress of applications and only successful candidates at shortlisting stage will be contacted, regrettably feedback will not be provided. If you are unsuccessful at this stage please refer back to the job description, person specification and advertised requirements for ways to improve your future applications.

Internal candidates applying for vacancies must have completed their probationary period (stated within your contract) at point of application.

East Midlands Ambulance Service NHS Trust is an equal opportunities and Disability Confident employer, committed to ensuring equality of opportunity. We actively encourage interest from across our diverse communities. Black and Minority Ethnic staff are currently under-represented within our workforce, and we welcome applications from within these communities.

We are keen to promote a positive work-life balance. We recognise the importance of being able to spend quality time with family and friends and to engage in your own personal interests outside of work, which alongside work helps us to lead healthy and fulfilling lives. We are committed to embedding the NHS People Promise to support colleagues to work flexibly in a way that works for our patients, for us and for you. Many of our staff already work flexibly in many different ways, including job share, part-time or other flexible working patterns. Please talk openly to us at interview about flexible working opportunities. In addition, if a role is advertised as home based, we remain committed to supporting flexibility around workplace locations, so please talk to us about the options available to you. If it works for our service, we will do our best to make it work for you.

At EMAS we believe that our culture should be built upon our core values and that our behaviour should reflect these. Our values – respect, integrity, contribution, teamwork and compassion - underpin everything we do – how we deliver our services and how we work with each other. We believe that it’s our people who make EMAS what it is.

Our Vision - Responding to patient needs in the right way, developing our organisation to become outstanding for patients and staff, and collaborating to improve wider healthcare.

Please note we reserve the right to withdraw this vacancy if an internal member of staff on our redeployment register expresses an interest and is successful for this vacancy, or if a sufficient number of applications is received.

Please be aware if you are applying for a Frontline role, an Enhanced DBS clearance check will be required, and depending on the nature of other non-patient facing roles this check may also be required if offered a position with EMAS (All spent and unspent convictions must declared).

If you are not part of the update service, you will be liable for the payment and this will be deducted from your first months’ salary. The current cost of an enhanced DBS check is £55.38.