Security Operations Engineer
IT Security Operations Engineer
Experienced SecOps Engineer sought by a well-known, public-facing organisation with numerous sites spread across the county. The business is involved in significant, complex and critical logistical operations, providing services to hundreds-of-thousands.
As a public-facing, Critical National Infrastructure business the SecOps Engineer will be a crucial component in ensuring the effective management of both the technical cyber security environment and wider information security management piece for the business.
This role carries responsibility for ensuring collaboration between Information Security and the IT Ops team, you'll ensure the implementation of technical security controls supporting risk mitigation and contributing to the continual improvement of the business's security composure.
Responsibilities:
* Provide expertise on application, network and infrastructure security
* Monitor security solutions including SIEM (Rapid 7), threat detection and data security, endpoint protection, network analytics for alerts
* Provide documentation for technical standards to meet corporate security policies/industry best practice
* Perform security reviews, identify gaps in security architecture and apply appropriate remediation
* Ensure appropriate technical measures are in place to comply with regulations/legislations
* Conduct vulnerability scanning, analysis and remediation
* Patch management
* Identify root cause of security issues and design appropriate solutions
Required Experience:
* Prior experience working within the security industry, ideally within a complex / multisite environment
* Excellent analytical skills
* Experience of working with SIEM tools, ideally Rapid 7
* Exposure to email security tools (Sophos, O365 etc)
* Excellent patch management skills (Intune SCCM, MECM Endpoint Manager and WSUS)
* Experience with vulnerability scanning and management (Insight VM)
* Experience with Endpoint Security (Sophos)
* Exposure to Cloud technologies (AWS, Azure etc.)
* Excellent networking skills (TCP/IP, SMB, DNS, DHCP etc)
* Hold industry recognised certifications/degree (S+, ITIL etc.)
Location; Central London with occasional travel a requirement
Rate; £550 - £650 p/d DoE
Note, the IR35 status determination is yet to be completed; the rate shown is based on the contract being determined as outsideIR35 (which is what the expected determination will be). However, should the contract fall inside the scope of IR35 the rate may be increased.
Duration; 3 month initial contract (highly likely to extend)
CTC Clearance will be required
Reference: 52426405
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