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Cyber Security Engineer

Brighton
2 weeks ago
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Are you a Cyber Security Engineer looking to work for a leading organisation that will impact on millions of lives for decades to come.
The role
Our clients Cyber Engineering function is part of their Cyber Operations Team, and its purpose is to use specialist knowledge and skillsets to minimise cyber risks through the effective use and continual improvements of organisation-wide cybersecurity infrastructure, solutions and processes.
This is a technically hands on role that requires specialist understanding of the continually changing cyber threat landscape and the use, configuration, and continual development of security solutions to minimise risks. The role is accountable for designing, implementing, maintaining and development of cybersecurity solutions to protect our organisation’s networks, systems, and data from cyber threats.
What you’ll be doing:

  • Creating and documenting the detailed architecture understanding of the cyber security toolset architecture and configurations to gauge and guide its effectiveness
  • Assisting planning activities to define the long-term cyber engineering roadmap to maximise the cyber defences and minimise associated risks.
  • Technical and process implementation of the cyber engineering roadmap
  • Maintenance, continual improvement and effectiveness of the portfolio of Cyber toolsets and related processes
  • Provision of specialist guidance and support in response to security incidents
  • Active collaboration between the Cyber Engineering function and key stakeholder groups to ensure unity of purpose and activity to achieve holistic security governance, support and protections
    What experience you need:
    Essential
  • Proven experience in cyber engineering with detailed hands-on expertise in network security technologies, and a proactive approach to identifying and mitigating potential security risks.
  • Strong hands-on technical experience with Microsoft security and infrastructure services including:
    Defender suite, Sentinel, Azure Security Centre, Azure NSGs
    IaaS, PaaS, Virtual Machines (VMs), Virtual Networks (vNets,), Azure Storage technologies, Azure Networking; SQL services, Azure Alerts and Monitoring configuration.
    Hybrid directory services with Azure Active Directory and Windows AD
  • Strong hands-on experience technical of integrating and supporting third party cyber solutions with Windows endpoints and servers and Microsoft cloud infrastructure, including:
  • Cisco firewalls and ISE, Forcepoint or similar secure web gateway/CASB solution, Mimecast, IDS/IPS solutions, Network Detection and Response (NDR), Qualys vulnerability detection and management platform or similar
  • Strong understanding of network architecture design and hands-on support
  • Passion for cyber engineering and staying up-to-date on the latest cybersecurity threats, trends, and technologies
    Desirable
  • Strong advantage to cyber certifications such as (ISC)2 ISSEP or SSCP, CompTIA Security+, Microsoft Certified: Azure Security Engineer Associate
    If this sounds like you and you’re looking to make a different please apply today

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