Physical Security Specialist

• Responsible for countering physical threats to company assets and personnel, which includes providing proactive and reactive physical security services in relation to Three’s data centre infrastructure, RAN, core offices, and retail estates.
• Governance and audit of the physical security of infrastructure including compliance with relevant legislation and organisational policies, and identification, escalation, and mitigation of physical security risks.
• Investigation of unauthorised access to facilities and compliance with relevant legislation and organisational policies.
• Responsible for ensuring that all staff understand their obligations as a company employee to adhere to physical security guidelines and policies.
• Responsible for defining minimum physical security standards for core office, RAN, data centre and retail estates.
• Responsible for ensuring minimum standards are maintained or non-compliance is captured, escalated, and the associated risks are managed appropriately.
• The typical planning cycle for projects is 1 to 2 years with a regular audit cycle undertaken on a quarterly basis to adhere to regulatory and legal requirements.
• Responsible for responding to alerts and supporting incidents on a 24/7 basis via an on-call system.

• Maintains security administration processes and checks that all requests for support are dealt with according to agreed procedures. 
• Provides guidance in defining access rights and privileges. 
• Provides regular audit reporting against physical security controls.
• Reactively investigates security breaches in accordance with established procedures on a 24/7 basis and recommends required actions and supports follows up to ensure these are implemented.
• Works with partners to ensure (1) access to premises, buildings and areas is justified, authorised, logged, and monitored automatically. (2) Physical security is continuously tested, reviewed, and improved.  (3) all physical assets are configured and maintained consistently with both regular and day-to-day business requirements, temporary or emergency business requirements.
• Ensures all physical assets are supported, licensed, and maintained in line with obligations and agreements with suppliers.
• Works with partners to assure physical assets in temporary emergency situations do not compromise performance in relation to regular day-to-day business, and visa-versa.
• Works with partners to ensure all physical assets and associated logging systems are subject to regular scheduled monitoring and inspection, and in response to issues appropriate and prompt responses are implemented.

Must Have:

• Specialist knowledge required for the role includes an understanding of relevant physical security standards, regulations, frameworks, controls, and processes. 
• Will be able to demonstrate the ability to make recommendations and implement physical security countermeasures and improvements aligned to organisational strategies.
• Will be able to understand and analyse the data and insights in their area to support management and leadership teams to make effective and informed decisions. Therefore attention to detail is key to this role.
• Ability to work across various teams and functions, managing internal and external stakeholders whilst taking ownership of individual and team projects.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced, changing environment enjoying the challenges and opportunities this brings, whilst demonstrating ability to effectively, prioritise work based on time, cost, and quality parameters.

Desirable:

• Demonstrable experience of providing Physical Security within large scale organisations covering all types of facilities used in Telecommunications e.g., Radio access sites, retail units, data centres and head offices.
• Demonstrable understanding of physical security standards and guidelines e.g., NIST, ISO27001.

What you'll receive in return…

• Competitive annual salary, a performance based annual bonus & an additional 'flexible allowance' to spend on additional benefits, topping up your pension, or to be added to your salary.
• Salary range for this role start's at £40,960, and exact salary will differ by job and experience
• 28 days annual leave + 8 bank holidays + 3 personal days annually, which increases with length of service
• Private Medical Insurance, Life Assurance and Income Protection
• Free mobile phone package & unlimited sim-card
• Free on-site car parking (including electric!)

Plus lots more including wellbeing and learning & development benefits!

Our people make us who we are. We’re a diverse and inclusive bunch, and it’s important you can feel you belong here. We value everybody for who they are and what they bring to the table, supporting one another as we continue to deliver for our customers.

With that in mind, if you do not ‘tick every box’ in the job advert above, there are likely other valuable attributes and skills you have that would make you a great addition for the team. So, if you feel this role is for you, then please apply! We are committed to equality in employment and growing a diverse workforce. We embrace those of any race, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, religion, disability, marital status, family status or civil status and we want our teams to reflect this!

We are a Disability Confident Committed Employer. Need any reasonable adjustments? Let us know when you apply so we can support you throughout the interview process.

Our people make us who we are. We’re a diverse and inclusive bunch, and it’s important you can feel you belong here. We value everybody for who they are and what they bring to the table, supporting one another as we continue to deliver for our customers.

With that in mind, if you do not ‘tick every box’ in the job advert above, there are likely other valuable attributes and skills you have that would make you a great addition for the team. So, if you feel this role is for you, then please apply! We are committed to equality in employment and growing a diverse workforce. We embrace those of any race, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, religion, disability, marital status, family status or civil status and we want our teams to reflect this!

We are a Disability Confident Committed Employer. Need any reasonable adjustments? Let us know when you apply so we can support you throughout the interview process.

At Three we have a hybrid working arrangement in place as standard for office based employees, where employees work from a mix of office based location and working from their home in the UK to carry on their role.

Excluding retail, our core hours at Three are between 10:00 and 16:00, with operating hours between 08:00 & 18:30. This allows employees to have a start time between 08:00 and 10:00 and finish time between 16:00 and 18:30.