Senior Cyber Security Engineer – Edinburgh or Glasgow – Contract – Up to £550 per day (Inside IR35) – Hybrid working

This role sits within the IT networking and security team who are responsible for maintaining key security technologies along with the underlying network infrastructure. My client is looking for an experienced engineer with Cyber Security skills, who would like to expand their knowledge further in this area.

Key responsibilities will include:

• Participate in multi-discipline projects acting as the Cyber Security Subject Matter Expert.
• Act as the Technical Lead and escalation point for all security incidents.
• Research and advise on the latest industry cyber security solutions and make recommendations to the business where necessary.
• Design and implement technical solutions to strengthen the security posture of the business.
• Actively monitor SIEM solution and be responsible for onboarding new log sources, configuring log parsing, and creating scripts to automate, both incident information gathering and incident remediations.
• Respond to, or act in an advisory capacity to junior members of the team to all service request tickets that relate to security and associated security applications, (as required.)
• Assist in driving forward the firm’s IT strategy, with a focus on the security infrastructure.
• Technical involvement in scoping, researching, vendor selection, implementation, configuration, documentation and roll out of strategic infrastructure technologies – working with industry leading vendors.
• Proactively monitoring the firm’s security infrastructure, (from an availability, security and performance perspective) and take pre-emptive or reactive action based upon this information.
• Strong experience of Cloud Security technologies
• To work with fellow team members and the IT Network & Security Manager to build strategic partnerships and relationships with key vendors and suppliers.
• Continuous improvement – to drive through identified improvements and/or additional controls and procedures as necessary to sustain our ISO-27001 Information Security accreditation.

Key Technologies:

• Rapid 7 Security Suite (InsightVm, InsightIDR, InsightConnect, InsightAppsec) or equivalent solutions.
• Firewalls
• Cloud Technology (IaaS)
• SIEM
• DLP
• Anti-Virus
• Vulnerability Management
• Web Filtering
• PKI Infrastructure
• Remote Access/VPN
• Secure File Transfer
• Email Gateways

This role is urgent in nature so please email your CV in word format to Mitesh Fatnani.

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