Cyber Security Engineer

Insight Global

Birmingham

9 months ago

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Insight Global is looking for a Principal Engineer to join a leading company in the financial services industry in the Cybersecurity Science & Analytics (CSA) team to develop innovative products for securing one of the largest technology estates in the world. This senior technical role involves hands-on software engineering and oversight of technical strategy, focusing on advanced analytics solutions to cybersecurity problems.

This is a perm role that is located in either the Sheffield or Birmingham Office.

Must Haves:

Experience with cloud-based applications, preferably Azure.
Proficiency in RDBMS (PostgreSQL, MySQL) and NoSQL (Cassandra, HBase, Elasticsearch).
Build, operate, maintain, and support cloud infrastructure and data services.
Automate and optimize data engineering pipelines.
Utilize big data technologies (Databricks, Spark).
Develop custom security applications, APIs, AI/ML models, and advanced analytic technologies.
Experience with threat detection in Azure Sentinel, Databricks, MPP Databases (Snowflake), or Splunk.
Expertise in network, endpoint, and cloud security, cryptography, malware analysis, vulnerability assessment, anomaly/intrusion detection, incident response, and offensive security.
Proficiency in AI/ML security and automation.
Experience with data science and analytics in Databricks, Synapse Analytics, and large-scale data warehouses (Snowflake, Redshift, Presto).
Proficiency in data visualization tools (Databricks, PowerBI) and the Python data science ecosystem (Jupyter, Pandas, Numpy, Matplotlib).

Plusses:

Financial services background
Degree in cybersecurity
Any advanced Data bricks qualifications
Have lead teams of more than 10 people
Recent involvement in a AI/ML project or programme

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