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Senior Cyber Engineer

Preston Park
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Role: Senior Cyber Engineer
Location: Hybrid (Brighton 2 days per week + WFH)

Salary: £60K - £62.5K + exceptional Employee Benefits including 28% Employer Pension, (+ on-call payment), great work/life balance

Key Skills: Vulnerability Management tools, Azure Security Centre, Defender, Sentinel and a broad Infrastructure Engineer background

Summary: This role joins a high performing, dedicated, hands-on Cyber Security Team responsible for providing a critical Security / Cyber Engineering function.

The role:

Creating and documenting the configurations of the Cyber Security architecture to ensure its robustness and effectiveness, (in line with the technology roadmap)
Reporting on cyber security issues managing escalated tickets, prioritising, resolving and documenting. Provide guidance on Cyber security on escalated tickets.
Assist with cyber security planning - collaboratively at team meetings
Liaising across a wide variety of Users and Stakeholders to ensure consistent security governance, support and protection.You need to be able to demonstrate the following essential skills and experience:

Ability to work 2 days per week in Brighton
2+ years strong hands-on technical experience with Microsoft Security and infrastructure services including:
Defender suite, Sentinel, Azure Security Centre, Azure NSGs
5+years' experience in technical infrastructure support, (Network or Systems Engineer level), with as much of the following experience as possible:
IaaS, PaaS, Virtual Machines (VMs), Virtual Networks (vNets,), Azure Storage technologies, Azure Networking; SQL services, Azure Alerts and Monitoring configuration.
Hybrid directory services with Azure Active Directory and Windows AD
Strong hands-on experience technical of integrating and supporting third party cyber solutions with Windows endpoints and servers and Microsoft cloud infrastructure, including:
Cisco firewalls and ISE, Forcepoint or similar secure web gateway/CASB solution, Mimecast, IDS/IPS solutions, Network Detection and Response (NDR), Qualys vulnerability detection and management platform or similar
Highly practical with a can-do attitude, able to demonstrate a proactive approach to identifying and mitigating potential security risks.
Strong communications and collaboration skills.
Passion for cybersecurity and a proactive approach to identifying and mitigating risks.Desirable

Reporting tools experience such as PowerBI
Cyber Certifications Any Cyber certification such as CISSP, or other relevant qualifications such as (ISC)² ISSEP or SSCP, CompTIA Security+, Microsoft Certified: Azure Security Engineer Associate etc.** Please note that VISA sponsorship is not available for these roles

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