Main duties and responsibilities

• Investigation of security incidents to determine route cause, ensuring the timely and accurate communication of incidents to relevant teams, and the co-ordination of remediation activities
• Tuning preventative and detective security systems in response to emerging threats
• Scheduling vulnerability scans, interpreting results, undertaking and/or monitoring any remedial actions
• Scheduling penetration tests and take ownership of the resulting remedial actions
• Escalation point for the Service Desk and Return to Service teams on security issues
• Developing day-to-day operational IT procedures to maintain and improve our security position
• Performing regular security and configuration checks, and capturing associated metrics
• Delivering technical projects of work to improve internal systems and processes
• Research and learn about new technologies and threats to ensure security controls are current and optimal.
• Be responsible for the timely creation and maintenance of quality documentation for both users and IT colleagues
• Ensure that all queries are dealt with in a professional, timely and appropriate manner
• Work with the IS Support Manager and other IS Managers to identify trends and proactive improvement opportunities and make IT operations more efficient
• Keep own skills up to date, developing a depth or breadth of knowledge in an appropriate area through learning and practice

Essential

• Strong experience in a security role such as Security or Network Engineer.
• Experience working with
• Security Information & Event Management (SIEM) solutions
• Firewall/Web Content Filtering solutions.
• Federated Identity Solutions for cloud/SaaS applications.
• Active Directory.
• Web server software such as Microsoft IIS.
• A strong working understanding and experience of the following with the following security areas
• Infrastructure Security
• Web Application Security
• Active Directory Security
• Strong individual and team working skills with good self-motivation and the ability to work with minimal supervision
• A business and customer focus, with constant awareness of trying to match the department’s expectation of IS.