Senior Cyber Security Engineer

Capital One
London
3 months ago
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About This Role

In Cyber at Capital One, we take an automation first approach, working in a fast paced and CI/CD driven environment. Capital One is not your normal financial services company constrained by a fixed mindset and legacy systems. We’re an agile business that dreams big, has the resources to deliver big and the credentials to back it up, as we were the first major bank to go all in on AWS.

As well as agility, Capital One is a company that puts customers at the centre of everything we do, and consequently, protecting customer data is our core focus. Their security is our responsibility and we protect the trust that our customers put in us on a 24/7 basis. Our Configuration Compliance team focuses on maintaining the hardening standards, assessing security posture, processing and reporting the findings of hundreds of thousands of assets across the Capital One enterprise. The remit covers servers, databases, endpoint devices, network equipment, and more, across Public Cloud and On Premise environments.

As a Cyber Engineer you will work as part of the Security Testing organisation, focused on the Configuration Compliance programme that protects Capital One and its customers across the UK, US, and Canada. As a member of the team, you will be expected to maintain a high bar for quality, have an automation first mindset, leverage best practices and deliver well architected solutions.

What We’re Looking For:

  • Someone with previous experience in Infrastructure Engineering / DevOps / Cyber Security roles.
  • Depth in experience of infrastructure as code (IAC) using fully automated CICD deployment pipelines.
  • Proficient in Python or comparable language.
  • Some hands-on experience in data analysis using Python or SQL is desirable.
  • In depth knowledge of Cloud platforms and the well architected framework. (AWS - essential / Azure / GCP).
  • Experience with security posture assessment tooling such as Qualys.
  • Understanding of risk management principles.
  • A team player, who is self driven with good communication skills willing to share to develop peers.

What You’ll Do:

  • Execute against prioritised deliverables aimed at optimising, improving or maintaining the Configuration Compliance programme.
  • Handle stakeholder facing elements of the role with high standards of customer service.
  • Be part of an On-Call rota covering our systems 24x7 (approx 1 week in 10).
  • Bring a can-do attitude to your work, looking to grow and evolve your technical skills and share your knowledge to grow others.
  • Demonstrate technical competency in the work you produce.
  • Offer a risk based approach to day to day work.
  • Work collaboratively from the UK with teams across multiple time zones.

These Would Be Beneficial Too:

  • Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology or Information Security.
  • Vendor, product, methodology and/or industry certifications.
  • Experience in working in a regulated environment.
  • Experience of; configuration management tools, Jenkins, host virtualisation, containerisation, ELK, Splunk, vulnerability scanners, proxies, WAFs, artefact management, serverless deployments, data streaming and transformation.
  • Experience in secured AWS, or other, Cloud architectures and engineering solutions.

What You’ll Get To Learn:

  • Setting and assessing security configuration for hundreds of thousands of assets.
  • Hands-on experience in enterprise scale Amazon Web Services.
  • A range of industry leading tooling, such as GitHub, Jfrog Artifactory, Jenkins, Docker, Qualys and Hashicorp Vault.
  • Contributing to solving Enterprise scale problems.
  • Delivering work for multiple stakeholders.
  • Managing security and technology in a regulated environment.
  • What it takes to build and own systems at Enterprise scale.

We are committed to creating a level playing field and seek to create teams that are representative of our customers and the communities we serve. We’d love to hear from you if you identify with a typically under-represented group in our industry and are particularly keen to hear from women, the LGBTQ+ community and ethnic minority candidates.

Where and how you'll work

This is a permanent position based in our London Head Office.

We have a hybrid working model, so you’ll be based in our office 3 days a week on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays, and can work from home on Monday and Friday.

Many of our associates have flexible working arrangements, and we're open to talking about an arrangement that works for you.

What’s in it for you

  • Bring us all this - and you’ll be well rewarded with a role contributing to the roadmap of an organisation committed to transformation.
  • We offer high performers strong and diverse career progression, investing heavily in developing great people through our Capital One University training programmes (and appropriate external providers).
  • Immediate access to our core benefits including pension scheme, bonus, generous holiday entitlement and private medical insurance – with flexible benefits available including season-ticket loans, cycle to work scheme and enhanced parental leave.
  • Open-plan workspaces and accessible facilities designed to inspire and support you.

Capital One is committed to diversity in the workplace.

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