IT Cyber Security Engineer

The Cyber Security IT Engineer will evaluate all security solution technologies and toolsets and help develop the security systems within the organisation and will ensure that data, network, and systems are protected from cyber threats and will comply with the relevant standards and regulations. You will also provide technical support to other security team professionals and partners.

Dimensions:

The company is expanding its presence in Microsoft Azure and is enhancing its on-prem OT Mission Critical Systems. It is important that a secure environment is developed for the hosting and management of our critical information assets. We ask that you have a blend of skillsets across cyber security including solution design and implementation, operation, governance, change management, communications, and the understanding of protecting data in employing the use of relevant encryption standards. The main measure of success is maintaining regulatory compliance and improving the technical and organisational resilience of the ever-changing cyber threat landscape.

• People – work collaboratively in a team environment and with a range of internal and external people
• Financial – no direct budget responsibility.
• Suppliers – regular interaction with 3rd party service providers, specialist technical consultants and cyber security tooling vendors.
• Communicate technical cyber security concepts to all kinds of colleagues across different levels of seniority to facilitate and ensure common understanding of decisions taken across the business.
• Stakeholders - establish and maintain collaborative working relationships with internal and external technology teams and third party providers, suppliers, and partners to improve outcomes and create agreement around a course of action.

Principal accountabilities:

• Ensure highest standards of safety are applied across all responsibilities.
• Implement the cyber security plans, technology roadmaps based on sound cyber security best practices to help implement UK Power Networks Cyber Security Strategy ensuring agreement to the company vision, values, and strategic goals.
• Supporting the Cyber Security Architects, research new security technologies, toolsets, and solutions for both Enterprise on-prem and cloud infrastructures.
• Work as an important partner with third party vendors to design and implement proof of concept (PoC) cyber security solutions and evaluate against strict requirements a3rdnd criteria following UK Power Networks policies and the cyber security technology roadmap.
• Evaluate existing cyber security solutions within the enterprise to ensure that they are fit for purpose and that the solutions have been designed and implemented to gain maximum benefit and capability.
• Support the Cyber Security Teams at a technical level to install cyber security product technologies and systems, such as firewalls, end point protection, encryption, VPN, SIEM, PAM, VM etc.
• Support the Cyber Security Teams to lead root cause analysis of cyber security related incidents to ensure prompt action is taken to prevent incident reoccurrence and strengthen relevant cyber security controls.
• Provide technical guidance and assurance to the wider information systems teams concerning the implementation of cyber security controls within the specified design principles.
• Establish and maintain relationships with important partners on matters of cyber security that maintain business support for cyber security and network architecture measures and improvements.

Unfortunately this position the company isn't offering on form of sponsorship.