Senior IT Security Engineer

Optima Connections Limited

City of London

10 months ago

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On-site - Central London

We are an established, global, financial services trading company looking to grow the infrastructure and security of our trading systems. We are working towards ISO27001, NIST and a zero trust architecture.

You will be based in the UK and required onsite at least 4 days per week.

Reporting to the Head of Security / Operations. You will be responsible for all aspects of security from managing the SOC through to setting up PIM/PAM etc, establishing frameworks, selecting tools, establishing the zero trust architecture.

This position offers a really exciting opportunity for someone with a strong technical background who is looking to take on a Senior and develop the security systems whilst still being very hands on.

Experience required

Familiar with NIST, ISO 27001, ITIL

Azure - 5 years experience Info Sec (Azure AD, Defender, Sentinel)

PIM/ PAM

Audits and report writing

Assessments

Vulnerability Management and Pen Testing

Zero Trust Architecture

Automation (eg powershell, python)

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