Description
Cyber Security Systems Engineer | £450/day - £525/day | Luxembourg or Brussels
A Cyber Security Systems Engineer is currently required to join a Governmental agency with headquarters in based in Luxembourg/Brussels.
The organisation in question currently has a mandate to expand their existing Cyber Security Defence capability and are looking to add Analysts, Engineers, Consultants and Architects to their European SOC.
Day to Day Activities
The following list of tasks applies to this reference profile.
This list is not exhaustive and may evolve in time, also depending on the type of assignment:
- ITIL process implementation and improvement
- Installs, configures, maintains and upgrades cyber security components
- Monitor managed components and manage incidents and problems (ITIL definitions)
- Tune performances
- Perform day-to-day system management
- Harden system and network components
- Develop, maintain and roll-out reference configurations (ITIL release and deployment management)
- Implement and follow security policies
- Elaborate and maintain system inventory/CMDB, system documentation, operating procedures
- Ensure appropriate testing before applying changes (change evaluation)
- Manage changes through a structured change management process (ITIL Change management)
- Report on service performances and availability, produce dashboards
- Design, develop, install, configure, test, monitor, maintain, troubleshoot and upgrade cyber security infrastructure
- Provide expertise, guidance, recommendations and documented security configurations for implementation of security tools and processes
- Produce detailed engineering specifications
- Evaluate and recommend secure configurations
- Identify security requirements, based upon need or translate high-level security requirements into detailed technical requirements
- Support various technical and non-technical stakeholders to specify and negotiate security requirements
- Interact with network and system engineering teams to effectively communicate and develop security solutions
- Drafts documentation and standard operational procedures to support security systems operations
- Ensures the technical design and contributes to implementation of new components and/or enhancements in coordination with other team members in particular project managers, security architects and engineers.
- Ensure capacity planning
- Support security monitoring use-case engineering
- Security events collection technical design. Integration of log sources into a SIEM solution.
- Elaboration and translation of the security monitoring policy into monitoring rules
- Investigate, diagnose and solve system related problems
- Diagnose and solve problems and faults occurring in the operation of cyber security components
- Comply with organization procedures to ensure integrity of the system
Skills and Requirements
- ITIL implementation
- Ability to design, develop, install, configure, test, monitor, maintain, troubleshoot and upgrade at least one of the products mentioned in Annex 2 (Cyber Security supporting systems and applications at EU-I)
- Network Protocols (including IP, TCP, UDP, DNS, SMTP, Syslog-ng, HTTP, IP routing and fail-over protocols, IEEE 802.1x)
- Cryptographic solutions (including common standards and ciphers, symmetric and asymmetric encryption, PKI, HSM, Smartcards)
- Security protocols (including SSL/TLS, IPsec, VPN)
- Ability to write comprehensive documentation.
- Authentication, authorisation and accounting (including RADIUS, TACACS+, Kerberos)
- Enterprise Active Directory and GPO development
- Auditing systems and networks for configuration weaknesses and vulnerabilities
- Hardening/Securing of Windows Servers and Desktops
- Hardening/Securing of Unix-like systems (such as System V, Linux, BSD)
- Administration and task automation using Scripting and/or programming languages (eg Python, PowerShell, Perl, Java)