Cyber Security Engineer - 6 Month Contract

SSP Group

London

9 months ago

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About the Role

About the role:

SSP require a Cyber Security Engineer for a 6 month contract to manage and maintain security processes, solutions and support strategic initiatives. This role is essential in building and maintain key security technologies and services, whilst also supporting the wider Cyber Security function as a 2nd line operational capability.

The Cyber Security Engineer is responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining security solutions to protect the organization's information systems from cyber threats. This role involves collaborating with various teams to ensure robust security architectures, conducting vulnerability assessments, and supporting incident response activities.

This role also provides support for the cyber security programme and works with the wider teams to ensure high risk areas are remediated.

What you’ll be doing:

Manage and main security tooling and infrastructure, including health, licence, capacity, performance and support roadmap and upgrade decisions. Act as 2nd line team within Cyber Security, supporting 1st line with incidents and any change to tooling and processes. Recommend and drive effective changes to enhance defence and response procedures Investigate and resolve issues with key security platforms and services Engage with wider D&T teams and act as SME for projects/changes Support and lead platform changes and transition process changes into 1st line Cyber Provide guidance and training for wider cyber security team when onboarding new technologies and processes. Partner with SOC and IR teams in the event of a security incident to ensure timely mitigation and remediation efforts are completed Promote a culture of security awareness and good practice Maintains good understanding of wider industry threats and security engineering best practices

To be successful in this role you will need:

Experience working in a dynamic, fast paced environment Security tooling experience across protection, detection and response platforms Experience with EDR, SIEM, vulnerability management solutions and threat intelligence platforms Hands-on experience in implementing and testing new security features, planning security tooling upgrades, troubleshooting, and responding to security incidents. Strong communications skills and experience in presenting and communicating to both technical and non-technical stakeholders Proven experience in managing security tooling and solutions.

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