Cyber Security Engineer

Insight Global
Birmingham
4 weeks 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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