National Gas Transmission PLC
Warwick, Warwickshire
The Microsoft 365 Platform Manager role ensures the effective delivery, optimisation, and strategic alignment of all Microsoft 365 services across the National Gas Technology landscape. This role provides oversight of core Microsoft platforms to meet business needs, comply with governance and security standards, and support future growth. By driving innovation, managing vendor performance, and fostering adoption, the role enables collaboration, improved productivity, and a robust roadmap for the evolving digital workplace. Join us, and help be the energy behind the change. About the role: Platform Development and Support: Manage the development, administration, strategy, and support of all Microsoft 365 services, ensuring the health and alignment of the Microsoft 365 tenant with business needs. Vendor Management: Coordinate and oversee a third party service provider responsible for day to day operational support. This includes managing service quality, cost efficiency, compliance, risk mitigation, and monitoring vendor performance via KPIs such as uptime and user satisfaction. The manager sets clear expectations and ensures SLAs are met or exceeded. Platform Optimization: Continuously review and implement improvements to enhance performance, user experience, and productivity. This may involve configuration adjustments, process streamlining, and enabling underutilised features to maximise value. Adoption of New Features: Stay updated on Microsoft 365 capabilities, track product roadmaps, evaluate relevant new services, and lead pilot programmes to ensure smooth deployment organisation wide. Liaison with Microsoft: Act as the primary contact with Microsoft for support and strategic alignment, working with account managers and Unified Support to resolve complex issues, escalated problems, and prepare for upcoming changes. Governance and Compliance: Ensure platform management aligns with company policies, security standards and regulations. Oversee governance controls such as permissions, data loss prevention, retention policies and compliance configurations, collaborating with IT security and compliance teams. Cross team Collaboration: Work with IT and business teams to ensure Microsoft 365 services integrate well with enterprise systems, facilitate user adoption and communicate platform changes effectively. Incident and Change Management: Lead response to major incidents and outages, coordinate with third party support and Microsoft, and manage change processes with proper testing and communication to minimise disruption, applying ITIL best practices. Strategic Roadmap Development: Develop and maintain a month internal roadmap for upgrades, capacity, licence management and new deployments aligned with business objectives and future demands. About you: Significant hands on experience managing and administering the Microsoft 365 platform in a mid to large organisation. A strong track record (ideally 3+ years) of Microsoft 365 product experience is expected, including deep familiarity with core services like Microsoft Teams, SharePoint Online, Exchange Online, OneDrive and Entra ID (Azure AD). Possession of relevant Microsoft certifications is highly desirable, demonstrating formal expertise in Microsoft 365. Certifications such as Microsoft 365 Certified: Enterprise Administrator Expert or specialised certifications (e.g. Teams Administrator, SharePoint Administrator) are preferable and validate the candidate's proficiency. Broad knowledge of the entire M365 suite is required. The ideal candidate understands how different Microsoft 365 services interconnect and can manage the platform end to end. In depth technical knowledge of collaboration tools (Teams, SharePoint) and productivity apps, as well as the underlying identity/security components (Azure AD, compliance centre), is essential for making informed decisions across the platform. Proven ability to manage third party IT service providers or managed service teams. This includes skills in contract/SLA management, performance monitoring and relationship management to ensure external partners deliver high quality service. Experience in holding vendors accountable to KPIs and making strategic decisions. What we can offer you: Salary circa £70,000 dependent on experience Performance bonus of up to 15% pa 28 days' holiday plus 8 statutory holidays - and option to buy 5 additional days Double match pension scheme - for every £1 you put in, we add £2 Opt In flexible benefit scheme, including salary sacrifice car, private healthcare, dental insurance, technology plans and more Financial protection with 10x salary death in service and financial support if unable to work due to long term illness Excellent family friendly provisions About us: Gas provides the energy security to support renewable electricity generation, and we are developing our infrastructure to transport hydrogen and carbon dioxide across the country. We are Britain's national gas network, providing secure energy to power the country, achieve net zero and maintain our industrial competitiveness. At National Gas, we're committed to building a workforce that reflects the communities that we serve. We celebrate the different experiences our colleagues bring and encourage applicants of all backgrounds to apply. To that end we want to support you during the interview process, please advise your recruitment partner if you require any reasonable adjustments. Security clearance: The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) security clearance for this role. Many of the positions within our company are subject to national security clearance and Trade Control restrictions. This means that your eligibility for certain roles may be affected by your place of birth, nationality, current or former citizenship, and any residency you hold or have held. Further details are available at United Kingdom Security Vetting: clearance levels - GOV.UK () .
The Microsoft 365 Platform Manager role ensures the effective delivery, optimisation, and strategic alignment of all Microsoft 365 services across the National Gas Technology landscape. This role provides oversight of core Microsoft platforms to meet business needs, comply with governance and security standards, and support future growth. By driving innovation, managing vendor performance, and fostering adoption, the role enables collaboration, improved productivity, and a robust roadmap for the evolving digital workplace. Join us, and help be the energy behind the change. About the role: Platform Development and Support: Manage the development, administration, strategy, and support of all Microsoft 365 services, ensuring the health and alignment of the Microsoft 365 tenant with business needs. Vendor Management: Coordinate and oversee a third party service provider responsible for day to day operational support. This includes managing service quality, cost efficiency, compliance, risk mitigation, and monitoring vendor performance via KPIs such as uptime and user satisfaction. The manager sets clear expectations and ensures SLAs are met or exceeded. Platform Optimization: Continuously review and implement improvements to enhance performance, user experience, and productivity. This may involve configuration adjustments, process streamlining, and enabling underutilised features to maximise value. Adoption of New Features: Stay updated on Microsoft 365 capabilities, track product roadmaps, evaluate relevant new services, and lead pilot programmes to ensure smooth deployment organisation wide. Liaison with Microsoft: Act as the primary contact with Microsoft for support and strategic alignment, working with account managers and Unified Support to resolve complex issues, escalated problems, and prepare for upcoming changes. Governance and Compliance: Ensure platform management aligns with company policies, security standards and regulations. Oversee governance controls such as permissions, data loss prevention, retention policies and compliance configurations, collaborating with IT security and compliance teams. Cross team Collaboration: Work with IT and business teams to ensure Microsoft 365 services integrate well with enterprise systems, facilitate user adoption and communicate platform changes effectively. Incident and Change Management: Lead response to major incidents and outages, coordinate with third party support and Microsoft, and manage change processes with proper testing and communication to minimise disruption, applying ITIL best practices. Strategic Roadmap Development: Develop and maintain a month internal roadmap for upgrades, capacity, licence management and new deployments aligned with business objectives and future demands. About you: Significant hands on experience managing and administering the Microsoft 365 platform in a mid to large organisation. A strong track record (ideally 3+ years) of Microsoft 365 product experience is expected, including deep familiarity with core services like Microsoft Teams, SharePoint Online, Exchange Online, OneDrive and Entra ID (Azure AD). Possession of relevant Microsoft certifications is highly desirable, demonstrating formal expertise in Microsoft 365. Certifications such as Microsoft 365 Certified: Enterprise Administrator Expert or specialised certifications (e.g. Teams Administrator, SharePoint Administrator) are preferable and validate the candidate's proficiency. Broad knowledge of the entire M365 suite is required. The ideal candidate understands how different Microsoft 365 services interconnect and can manage the platform end to end. In depth technical knowledge of collaboration tools (Teams, SharePoint) and productivity apps, as well as the underlying identity/security components (Azure AD, compliance centre), is essential for making informed decisions across the platform. Proven ability to manage third party IT service providers or managed service teams. This includes skills in contract/SLA management, performance monitoring and relationship management to ensure external partners deliver high quality service. Experience in holding vendors accountable to KPIs and making strategic decisions. What we can offer you: Salary circa £70,000 dependent on experience Performance bonus of up to 15% pa 28 days' holiday plus 8 statutory holidays - and option to buy 5 additional days Double match pension scheme - for every £1 you put in, we add £2 Opt In flexible benefit scheme, including salary sacrifice car, private healthcare, dental insurance, technology plans and more Financial protection with 10x salary death in service and financial support if unable to work due to long term illness Excellent family friendly provisions About us: Gas provides the energy security to support renewable electricity generation, and we are developing our infrastructure to transport hydrogen and carbon dioxide across the country. We are Britain's national gas network, providing secure energy to power the country, achieve net zero and maintain our industrial competitiveness. At National Gas, we're committed to building a workforce that reflects the communities that we serve. We celebrate the different experiences our colleagues bring and encourage applicants of all backgrounds to apply. To that end we want to support you during the interview process, please advise your recruitment partner if you require any reasonable adjustments. Security clearance: The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) security clearance for this role. Many of the positions within our company are subject to national security clearance and Trade Control restrictions. This means that your eligibility for certain roles may be affected by your place of birth, nationality, current or former citizenship, and any residency you hold or have held. Further details are available at United Kingdom Security Vetting: clearance levels - GOV.UK () .
National Gas Transmission PLC
Warwick, Warwickshire
Location: Warwick, GB, CV34 6DA Company: National Gas Requisition ID: 2896 Warwick, hybrid flexible working Permanent, full time Through nearly 5,000 miles of pipes across Great Britain, National Gas transports gas to power stations, major industries, storage facilities, and more than half a million businesses and 24 million homes. We are the national gas network, and are proud to be leading the way in transforming the energy network for a clean energy future. The Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI) Analyst is crucial to influencing the Cyber Defend engineering team by sharing cyber threat intelligence to understand what threats are emerging as well as advanced persistent threat actors are leveraging to compromise systems. Join us, and help be the energy behind the change. Key accountabilities: Working across all areas of Cyber Defend producing bespoke and technical intelligence across Tactical, Strategic, and Operational intelligence, working with key stakeholders from around the business in vital operational areas such as Critical National Infrastructure (CNI) and Operational Technology (OT). Provide actionable technical intelligence to our detection engineers, threat hunters and security operations to improve security controls based from threat intelligence. Monitor, research and evaluate cyber threats and trends providing corresponding guidance and recommendations to inform risk assessments and business decisions relating to security posture, operations, investments and partners. Develop, implement and maintain a framework for monitoring and analysis, centred on clear intelligence requirements and key indicators or warnings. Engage with senior business stakeholders to define and agree intelligence requirements and understanding of assessments and recommendations. Provide direction and outlook by horizon scanning for future trends and threats in the cyber domain. Simultaneously work closely with Cyber Defend and the SOC to ensure technical intelligence is distributed to allow effective cyber defence mitigations to be implemented. Engage with high profile intelligence partners in Government and industry, ensure collection against intelligence requirements and corroborate assessments. Represent and speak for NG at intelligence sharing and analysis platforms that cut across Gov't and multiple sectors. Generate confidence in intelligence products by managing disagreement and questions relating to intelligence sources and assessments. Manage conflict and orchestrate consensus in high pressure and politically sensitive environments, always ensuring operational security of assessments and sources. About you: Significant proven experience in Cyber Threat Intelligence, ideally with degree and relevant Cyber qualifications. Energy or financial services sector background would be most highly regarded. High technical aptitude and a deep understanding of the current cyber threat landscapes and geopolitics. Full understanding of the MITRE attack framework. Technical understanding of CTI, including TTPs and MOs employed by threat actors. Must be able to translate this to not only a technical audience in Cyber Defend but also to the wider business. Excellent research, analysis and critical thinking skills. Strong geopolitical understanding of how threat intelligence is translated into intelligence / defence in an all-source analysis environment. Strong automation and scripting skills. Proven ability to work independently and proactively to conduct high-quality preliminary research and analysis. Strong analytical skills and attention for detail. Strong stakeholder management skillset with a proven ability to get things done. What we can offer you: Salary £65,000-£70,000 dependant on experience Annual performance bonus 34 days holiday (inc. statutory days) - plus option to buy/sell 5 further days Opt-In flexible benefit scheme, including salary sacrifice car plan, private healthcare, dental insurance, technology plans, and more Financial protection with 10x salary death in service and financial support if you're unable to work Excellent family friendly provisions About us: National Gas provides secure energy to power the country, achieve net zero and maintain our industrial competitiveness. Gas is an essential part of a secure energy supply in Britain and will continue to play a vital role in the energy system for decades to come. More than ever, we need the security that gas brings to keep the lights on, businesses running, and homes warm. National Gas provides that security. At National Gas, we're committed to building a workforce that reflects the communities that we serve. We celebrate the different experiences our colleagues bring and encourage applicants of all backgrounds to apply. To that end we want to support you during the interview process, please advise your recruitment partner if you require any reasonable adjustments. Security Clearance: This role requires Security Check (SC) clearance. Please note that eligibility may be impacted by nationality, citizenship, or residency under UK security and trade regulations. Further details: UK Security Vetting (). Further information: Please note: this role is subject to National Security Vetting
Location: Warwick, GB, CV34 6DA Company: National Gas Requisition ID: 2896 Warwick, hybrid flexible working Permanent, full time Through nearly 5,000 miles of pipes across Great Britain, National Gas transports gas to power stations, major industries, storage facilities, and more than half a million businesses and 24 million homes. We are the national gas network, and are proud to be leading the way in transforming the energy network for a clean energy future. The Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI) Analyst is crucial to influencing the Cyber Defend engineering team by sharing cyber threat intelligence to understand what threats are emerging as well as advanced persistent threat actors are leveraging to compromise systems. Join us, and help be the energy behind the change. Key accountabilities: Working across all areas of Cyber Defend producing bespoke and technical intelligence across Tactical, Strategic, and Operational intelligence, working with key stakeholders from around the business in vital operational areas such as Critical National Infrastructure (CNI) and Operational Technology (OT). Provide actionable technical intelligence to our detection engineers, threat hunters and security operations to improve security controls based from threat intelligence. Monitor, research and evaluate cyber threats and trends providing corresponding guidance and recommendations to inform risk assessments and business decisions relating to security posture, operations, investments and partners. Develop, implement and maintain a framework for monitoring and analysis, centred on clear intelligence requirements and key indicators or warnings. Engage with senior business stakeholders to define and agree intelligence requirements and understanding of assessments and recommendations. Provide direction and outlook by horizon scanning for future trends and threats in the cyber domain. Simultaneously work closely with Cyber Defend and the SOC to ensure technical intelligence is distributed to allow effective cyber defence mitigations to be implemented. Engage with high profile intelligence partners in Government and industry, ensure collection against intelligence requirements and corroborate assessments. Represent and speak for NG at intelligence sharing and analysis platforms that cut across Gov't and multiple sectors. Generate confidence in intelligence products by managing disagreement and questions relating to intelligence sources and assessments. Manage conflict and orchestrate consensus in high pressure and politically sensitive environments, always ensuring operational security of assessments and sources. About you: Significant proven experience in Cyber Threat Intelligence, ideally with degree and relevant Cyber qualifications. Energy or financial services sector background would be most highly regarded. High technical aptitude and a deep understanding of the current cyber threat landscapes and geopolitics. Full understanding of the MITRE attack framework. Technical understanding of CTI, including TTPs and MOs employed by threat actors. Must be able to translate this to not only a technical audience in Cyber Defend but also to the wider business. Excellent research, analysis and critical thinking skills. Strong geopolitical understanding of how threat intelligence is translated into intelligence / defence in an all-source analysis environment. Strong automation and scripting skills. Proven ability to work independently and proactively to conduct high-quality preliminary research and analysis. Strong analytical skills and attention for detail. Strong stakeholder management skillset with a proven ability to get things done. What we can offer you: Salary £65,000-£70,000 dependant on experience Annual performance bonus 34 days holiday (inc. statutory days) - plus option to buy/sell 5 further days Opt-In flexible benefit scheme, including salary sacrifice car plan, private healthcare, dental insurance, technology plans, and more Financial protection with 10x salary death in service and financial support if you're unable to work Excellent family friendly provisions About us: National Gas provides secure energy to power the country, achieve net zero and maintain our industrial competitiveness. Gas is an essential part of a secure energy supply in Britain and will continue to play a vital role in the energy system for decades to come. More than ever, we need the security that gas brings to keep the lights on, businesses running, and homes warm. National Gas provides that security. At National Gas, we're committed to building a workforce that reflects the communities that we serve. We celebrate the different experiences our colleagues bring and encourage applicants of all backgrounds to apply. To that end we want to support you during the interview process, please advise your recruitment partner if you require any reasonable adjustments. Security Clearance: This role requires Security Check (SC) clearance. Please note that eligibility may be impacted by nationality, citizenship, or residency under UK security and trade regulations. Further details: UK Security Vetting (). Further information: Please note: this role is subject to National Security Vetting