Cyber Security Engineer

Cyber Security Engineerrequired by expanding, market leading organisation based in North Somerset. The Cyber Security Engineer will be responsible for managing the technical security tools, particularly focused on protection and detection. You will assist with ongoing cyber security projects and achieving strategic objectives, particularly to reduce cyber security risk.

Main Responsibilities:

• Assist with implementing, maintaining, and documenting new security solutions and ensure existing systems are replaced.
• Own the endpoint protection, boundary firewalls, and other technical security solutions.
• Ability to implement exceptions and make changes for new requirements according to least privilege principles, while maintaining usability and good end user experience.
• Using open-source intelligence and disclosures from official sources, identify potential security risks, and be able to suggest remediation steps as required by the IT department, internal stakeholders, or external partners according to commensurate level of risk.
• Working with the Cyber Security Analyst, undertake 2nd & 3rd line support duties for IT Security related incidents and requests & resolve issues within IT Service Level Agreements.
• Contribute to the professional development of the Cyber Security Analyst and junior members of the IT team.
• Provide out of hours support on a rotating basis.
• Advise the IT team on best practices for implementation of projects and solutions according to least privilege principles.

Ideal Background

• At least 3-5 years commercial experience gained within a security or infrastructure role
• A strong and recent background gained in managing Windows Operating Systems
• Next-gen firewall policy management
• Endpoint protection & EDR deployment and management
• TCP/IP, VLANs

The ‘Nice to haves’

• Great communication skills
• The ability to clearly and confidently convey security risks
• Knowledge of Cyber Security standards, e.g. Cyber Essentials, ISO 27001, NIST Framework.
• Administering Active Directory, Group Policy, Office 365, Azure AD, SCCM
• PowerShell or other scripting languages.

This fantastic role comes with a salary of £50,000-60,000 p/a and is accompanied by a benefits package which includes 33 days holiday, pension scheme, healthcare cash back plan, cycle to work scheme, subsidised products and services to name but a few.