Job Description
Role title:Security Operations Engineer
Role Type:Permanent
Location:Edinburgh (with blended home working)
At abrdn the security and protection of our customer assets and data is of paramount importance, especially within our changing digital world. Within our Security, Resilience & Protection department, an exciting and challenging opportunity has arisen for an experienced and ambitious Security Engineer.
About the opportunity
-Are you passionate about cyber security?
-Do you want to be part of a growing, collaborative, and supportive engineering team?
-Do you want to learn and expand your skills as part of a digital transformation journey?
The role
This role represents a unique opportunity to contribute to the evolution of the security engineering team and engage with teams across the enterprise to develop a best-in-class engineering function using emerging technologies and innovative working practices.Advancing a team culture that promotes learning, creativity and supportive collaboration provides an environment where new approaches, innovative thinking and commitment will allow you to deliver high quality outputs.
Reporting to the Cyber Security Engineering Manager, you will help to deliver improvements across several of our cyber security domains including Security Data & Analytics, Security Automation, Incident Response and Threat Detection. Additionally, you will work closely with our Cyber Security Operation Centre, wider security functions, specialist 3rd party security suppliers and our global IT and business teams.
If you are ready for a fresh challenge and confident of the value you can bring to security engineering, then read on.
Essential Criteria:
Demonstrable experience working in cyber security engineering or aligned functions. Experience supporting security tools, such as SOAR, SIEM, EDR, NGFW, CSPM, WAF, AV. Experience of security platform optimisation, covering endpoint, network, cloud, and logging technologies. Experience of building security automation playbooks and integration. Knowledge of one or more scripting languages with experience in developing automation playbooks, scripts that interact with APIs and parsers for data engines. A passion for learning to keep up to date with the evolving threat and vulnerability landscape, new technologies and service improvements.Not essential but we would love you to have:
Understanding of microservices architecture, Kubernetes, Containers, CI/CD pipelines and DevSecOps Knowledge of Azure, Microsoft 365 or Google Security. Industry recognised certifications such as Certified Splunk Architect, PCSAE, CISSP, CEH or equivalent experience. Experience of working with globally dispersed teams.Our Benefits
There's more to working life than coming home with a good salary. We have an environment where you can learn, get involved and be supported.
When you join us, your reward will be one of the best around, including 40 days annual leave, a 16% employer pension contribution, a discretionary performance based bonus (where applicable), private healthcare and a range of flexible benefits including gym discounts, season ticket loans and access to an employee discount site amongst many others. You can read more about our benefits
An inclusive way of working
Whatever way you like to work, if you have the talent and commitment to join our team, we’d like to hear from you.
At abrdn we’ve adopted a ‘blended working’ approach. This approach combines the benefits of face-to-face collaboration, coaching and connecting in our offices with the flexibility of working from home. It enables colleagues to find a balance that works for their roles, their teams, our clients and our business.
Inclusive Culture where diverse perspectives drive our actions, is at the core of who we are and what we do.
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