Description
Cyber Security Engineer - Office365
Leeds - Fully Remote
£525 - £550p/d - Umbrella Only
3 months
Fantastic new contract opportunity for an experienced Security Engineer with strong design and security engineering skills required to join this market leading financial services business to help them deliver a range of cutting edge banking Cyber technologies.
You will work within the Office365 Security Engineering team, working independently as well as within the larger function, across some of the most forward-looking projects within the group. The role will focus on the delivery of secure financial products and services. This will require obtaining a deep understanding of various technologies in order to produce or provide input into the necessary design or solution documents. This will involve leading projects technically, working with security teams and SMEs across the Group as well as with vendors and developers.
Main responsibilities:
- Provide the following capabilities as required by the project or determined by the work load alignment:
- Security Engineering and Design
- Security Consultancy
- Accept ownership for technical related deliverables as defined by the project scope. Agree these deliverables with the aligned Senior Security Engineer for the portfolio to ensure strategic and risk reduction adherence. Work with the project manager and business analyst to ensure any critical success factors or business objectives are reasonable and can be met.
- Manage requirements from stakeholders within each project and collaborate with the Senior Security Engineer portfolio lead on challenges that need wider business discussion or escalation to the Lead Security Engineers.
- Analyse security risk within each design as appropriate to the scope and ensure that all interested stakeholders are informed or consulted where necessary.
- Design and implement security controls using a combination of Enterprise Architecture Patterns, Security Standards and bespoke deliverables.
- Work closely with vendors, platform teams and SME's where necessary in order to agree architectural decisions, design statements and exceptions. Where necessary support the project in obtaining waivers related to security design decisions taken.
- Take the lead on security architecture decisions and issues where the problem scenario is not covered by a pattern or standard. Seek guidance from domain architects or domain engineers where appropriate.
- Provide security architectural SME knowledge and design engineering effort that leads to the creation of high quality solutions that comply with all relevant ITEC policies and Security Standards.
Skills Required:
- Proven experience and knowledge of a broad range of IT security principles and associated technologies.
- Significant knowledge of Cyber Security as it applies to Enterprise business and ideally exposure to risk or threat assessment techniques.
- Strong stakeholder management skills.
- Technical experience and demonstrable skill in one or more of the following areas:
- Cloud security principles, particularly pertaining to Microsoft Azure and Microsoft 365 technologies.
- In-depth knowledge of key Azure cloud solutions, including Azure networking, Cloud Identity and Access Management, M365 applications and virtualisation.
For any further queries regarding the role, please contact Danny Palmer by phone or at (see below)