Cyber Security Engineer | IT Security Engineer
Cyber Security Engineer required for a large Financial Services firm with 16 offices throughout the UK. This role is ideal for someone with a strong background in web application security, firewalls, vulnerability management, and penetration testing. You'll be part of an expanding team, working in a highly technical and collaborative environment, and will have the opportunity to research and implement the latest technologies in the industry.
Day to Day of the role:
- Carry out daily security engineering/operations tasks within an ITIL framework, promoting and adhering to workplace values.
- Analyse and recommend effective security controls, system hardening, and security improvement projects, focusing on application/web hosting security.
- Develop an understanding of threats, risks, vulnerabilities, and evolving attack vectors facing the business.
- Assist with security incident investigations in complex cross-technology environments.
- Work to defined SLAs & KPIs, maintaining accurate logs of security events and incidents.
- Represent Information Security at IT meetings.
- Manage patching, vulnerability analysis, and penetration testing, ensuring recommendations are risk-assessed and implemented promptly.
- Contribute to group security training and awareness campaigns.
- Review the market for effective information security solutions and assist in the annual review of suppliers' information security processes.
- Respond to client information security questionnaires and assist IT with Security Administration.
Required Skills & Qualifications:
- Experience in Security Engineering, Network security, and/or SOC.
- Detailed knowledge of security products.
- A good grasp and understanding of infrastructure and networking.
- Good understanding of IT Security best practices.
- Familiarity with common IT protocols, infrastructure, and systems.
- Collaborative work ethic with IT, teams, and end users.
- Relevant higher-level qualifications in Information Security (e.g., CISSP, SANS GCIA, Comptia Security+, CCNA/CCNP) or working towards them.
- Excellent communication skills and ability to maintain network diagrams.