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Security Engineer

Capgemini
Leicestershire
2 weeks ago
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About the role you’re considering

Engineers form part of the Security Engineering Team (SET), an expanding team who deliver specific IT Security Services to a client in the Aerospace industry. The team has a footprint in two main sites in Derby, to affectively provide services to the client. The team members are not fixed to one location, which lends itself to interesting and diverse work within differing environments. The role is focused in three main areas for Security Engineering and Operational activity:

Run Activity – Monitoring and acting as required on the health of various Security tools. Incident Response – responding with appropriate actions as required regarding tooling within the remit of the SET. Triaging requests incoming to the Engineering Team mailbox and Service Management intake queue, ensuring ownership within the wider team is appropriately assigned and requests have ownership.

Hybrid working: The places that you work from day to day will vary according to your role, your needs, and those of the business; it will be a blend of Company offices, client sites, and your home; noting that you will be unable to work at home 100% of the time.

If you are successfully offered this position, you will go through a series of pre-employment checks, including: 
identity, nationality (single or dual) or immigration status, employment history going back 3 continuous years, and unspent criminal record check (known as Disclosure and Barring Service)

Your role

You will be responsible for ensuring the integrity of client IT infrastructures and follow core IT Service Management Principles. This includes on-call and out of hours coverage. You will keep the lights green on all Security Toolkit Infrastructure within our remit and support various toolsets including SIEM, IDPS, GVM and Malware Protection. You will record and respond to health alerts from the Security Infrastructure we maintain. You will learn how to tune and enable polices, features and enhancements as required in response to Security Incidents and general enhancements requested by the client. You will gain knowledge on how to troubleshoot potential impact of security tooling on business applications as required.

You can bring your whole self to work. At Capgemini building an inclusive future is part of everyday life and will be part of your working reality. We have built a representative and welcoming environment, for everyone.

Your skills and experience

An understanding of security threats, compromise methods, server, client and network technologies working in an IT outsourcing environment and aptitude to learn new technologies.  You will provide excellent communication skills both written and verbal, client engagement skills, time management, expectation management etc with an ability to keep calm and perform under pressurised situations.  Track record of implementation and management of an enterprise Data Loss Prevention (DLP) solution to monitor, detect, and prevent unauthorized data access, transmission, or leakage across endpoints, networks, and cloud environments. Experience required of MS Cloud Security, including Sentinel, Defender, Wider E5 licensing suite. Desirable: Netskope experience administering and maintaining Netskope Security Cloud platform, including configuration of policies, integration with identity providers and SIEM tools, troubleshooting service issues, and ensuring optimal performance.

Your security clearance

To be successfully appointed to this role, it is a requirement to obtain .

To obtain SC clearance, the successful applicant must have resided continuously within the United Kingdom for the last 5 years, along with other criteria and requirements.

Throughout the recruitment process, you will be asked questions about your security clearance eligibility such as, but not limited to, country of residence and nationality.

Some posts are restricted to sole UK Nationals for security reasons; therefore, you may be asked about your citizenship in the application process.

What does ‘Get The Future You Want’ mean for you?

You’d be joining an accredited Great Place to work for Wellbeing in 2024. Employee wellbeing is vitally important to us as an organisation. We see a healthy and happy workforce a critical component for us to achieve our organisational ambitions.
To help support wellbeing we have trained ‘Mental Health Champions’ across each of our business areas, and we have invested in wellbeing apps such as Thrive and Peppy. 
You’ll be bringing your unique skills and perspectives to the team, inspiring and taking inspiration from your teammates as you unlock value in everything you do. You’ll be joining a professional community of experts, who have got your back and will support you, every step of the way. 
You will reimagine what’s possible: creating value for the world’s leading organisations through technology to build a sustainable, more inclusive future. You will work with a range of clients all with a unique set of business, technological and societal ambitions, which will make a real impact across the UK.
Capgemini. Get The Future You Want.

Why should you consider Capgemini?

Growing clients’ businesses while building a more sustainable, more inclusive future is a tough ask. When you join Capgemini, you’ll join a thriving company and become part of a collective of free-thinkers, entrepreneurs and industry experts. We find new ways technology can help us reimagine what’s possible. It’s why, together, we seek out opportunities that will transform the world’s leading businesses, and it’s how you’ll gain the experiences and connections you need to shape your future. By learning from each other every day, sharing knowledge, and always pushing yourself to do better, you’ll build the skills you want. You’ll use your skills to help our clients leverage technology to innovate and grow their business. So, it might not always be easy, but making the world a better place rarely is.

About Capgemini

Capgemini is a global business and technology transformation partner, helping organisations to accelerate their dual transition to a digital and sustainable world, while creating tangible impact for enterprises and society. It is a responsible and diverse group of 340,000 team members in more than 50 countries. With its strong over 55-year heritage, Capgemini is trusted by its clients to unlock the value of technology to address the entire breadth of their business needs. It delivers end-to-end services and solutions leveraging strengths from strategy and design to engineering, all fuelled by its market leading capabilities in AI, generative AI, cloud and data, combined with its deep industry expertise and partner ecosystem. The Group reported 2024 global revenues of €22.1 billion. 

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