Description
People Source Consulting are currently seeking a Security Operations Engineer to take on a 6 month potentially rolling contract with our Central Government Client.
The role will include:
- Implementation and oversight of security tools that provide insight into the clients security environment.
- Closely collaborate with the Cyber Assistance Team's consultancy arm to provide technical support and guidance.
- Act as the technical leads and SME on project teams, providing advice, knowledge sharing, and technical assistance to other sections of the clients digital estates.
The essential skills and experience required are:
- Strong knowledge of security monitoring approaches, techniques and widely-used products. Experience of developing and implementing cyber security monitoring strategies, leading a team of security analysts as they use monitoring and other investigative techniques to seek out security threats, and improve an organisation's security posture.
- Experience of running and developing a team of technical specialists, ideally in the field of security operations. You will be familiar with coaching, mentoring, and supporting people at different stages of their career, managing a portfolio of work - much of it urgent - and providing effective delegation and leadership to a team.
- Experience of IT investigations, e-Discovery tasks, digital forensics, etc. Knowledge of appropriate processes and procedures required to effectively collect, interrogate and preserve information from a wide range of enterprise IT sources.
- Knowledge of security architectures, in particular for modern digital services, including how they are developed and operated at scale.
- Experience with threat and vulnerability management, and other security operations processes and techniques (such as identity management, cryptography, patch management etc). Good knowledge of threat to widely used digital and technology systems, including on-prem and cloud-based solutions.
- Enabling and informing risk-based decisions - Works with risk advisors to advise and give feedback. Advise on risk impact. Propose realistic and pragmatic mitigations that address these problems, and work with the product/project team to implement these effectively into their work.
- Understanding security implications of transformation - Can interpret and apply understanding of policy and process, business architecture, and legal and political implications in order to assist the development of technical solutions or controls.
- Research and development experience, building and automating common security operation team processes and activities.
- Working with network defense technologies including Firewalls IDS, IPS, DLP, UTM and WAF
- With core Internet and application protocols including IP, TCP, UDP, ICMP, DNS, HTTP, SQL
- Firewall log analysis and ACL configuration
- IDS/IPS alert analysis and signature development
- Working with SIEM technologies such as Qradar, ArcSight, Splunk, Logrhythm
- Working with content filtering technologies such as web and application proxies,
- Service Management best practice backed up by industry qualifications (ITIL). ITIL Foundation v3
- Demonstrable Cyber Security experience
- Knowledge of secure development practices such as OWASP
- Knowledge of compliance standards like CIS, NIST and GDPR
- Cloud Technologies (Azure, AWS, G-Suite)
- Office 365
Desirable:
- Azure Sentinel
- Hands on Azure security configuration and Scripting skills
- Demonstrable experience and execution of security automation
- 5+ years of related cybersecurity architecture, engineering, and/or SOC work experience (monitoring, detection, incident response
- Good Networking knowledge
- Linux administration knowledge
- DB administration knowledge
- Multi-factor authentication conceptual knowledge
In Return:
- £650pd
- 6 Month Contract (Rolling)
- Remote working (With central London HQ)
Contact - (see below)
People Source Consulting Ltd is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy. People Source specialise in technology recruitment across niche markets including Information Technology, Digital TV, Digital Marketing, Project and Programme Management, SAP, Digital and Consumer Electronics, Air Traffic Management, Management Consultancy, Business Intelligence, Manufacturing, Telecoms, Public Sector, Healthcare, Finance and Oil & Gas.