National Cyber Crime Unit (NCCU) locations: London*, Birmingham, Warrington and Bristol
The Specialist Operational Services (SOS): locations: London*, Birmingham, Warrington, Bristol, Leicester, Stevenage, Wakefield and Belfast
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NCCU Roles
Join the National Cyber Crime Unit (NCCU) and bring your unique skills to lead the UK’s fight against cybercrime!
Our Software Development, Data Engineering, TR&D (Tactical Research and Development), and DevOps teams harness cutting-edge cloud technology to disrupt serious and organised crime.
Specialist Operational Services Roles
The Specialist Operational Services (SOS) is a critical function within the DDaT Enterprise Services (ES) Department. It provisions specialist digital capabilities and technical support to operational officers, assisting them in tackling the highest serious and organised crime threats.
The function is key to realising the new NCA Strategy by maintaining specialist capabilities as well as developing new cutting-edge tools in fight to keep pace with criminal exploitation of emerging technologies.
The team combines IT professionals and operational law enforcement experts to ensure that specialist services are operationally fit for purpose, legally compliant and delivered 24/7.
NCCU Roles
The National Cyber Crime Unit's Tactical Research & Development team (TR&D) are a hybrid team of operational deployment specialists and technical capability developers who support both national and international investigations. Working in this team, you will design, develop and deploy using Targeted Equipment Interference warrants to support and enhance intelligence collection for investigations into high-end serious organised crime including Cyber Crime, Child Sexual Exploitation, Firearms, Controlled Drugs and Organised Immigration Crime. As a TR&D officer, you will work closely with NCA investigation teams, UK police and international law enforcement agencies to offer specialist advice and innovative niche capabilities involving areas such as malware analysis, cryptocurrency tracking, incident response network infrastructure investigations and covert device monitoring.
Working in the National Cyber Crime Unit’s DevOps, Software Development and Data Engineering teams, you will harness cutting-edge cloud technology to disrupt serious and organised crime and develop innovative solutions to complex technical challenges to combat existing and new threat areas of cybercrime. Within these teams, you will be expected to keep up to date with current techniques and adopt new approaches by applying these to NCCU operational problems, working closely with colleagues in other technical teams.
In all our NCCU technical teams, we are looking for:
Within this role you may be exposed to images of Child Sexual Exploitation.
You may also be required to be part of an on call 24/7 rota.
SOS Roles
You will work within one of the SOS Engineering functions to support and maintain the Agency’s specialist technical capabilities. You will work collaboratively with the infrastructure teams and non-technical user groups to identify issues and support fault resolution and development. You will play a key part in delivering the specialist services to multiple operational teams.
You’ll be working at the cutting edge of law enforcement on next-generation projects to help catch the criminals that pose the biggest threat to the UK.
This role is vital in ensuring our operational staff have the right tools, software, systems and platforms to exploit the latest serious and organised crime threats.
SOS is a fast-paced environment and our teams work collaboratively and creatively to build software that solves exciting, unique and challenging problems.
Within this role you may be exposed to images of Child Sexual Exploitation.
You may also be required to be part of an on call 24/7 rota.
To learn more about this role, please register for the following event On Tuesday 18th February 2025 from 6 – 7pm, we are hosting a MS Teams event where you can hear from officers working within the NCA and be given the opportunity to ask questions about the role. Attendance is by invitation only.
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Registration will close on Friday 14th February at 12pm. You will be asked for your name and email address
NCCU Roles:
SOS Roles:
We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:
We'll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:
Alongside your salary of £34,537, National Crime Agency contributes £10,005 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.
All officers in the NCA are members of the UK Civil Service. You will be eligible for:
For further details on benefits please visit https://www.nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk/careers/benefits-and-support
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