Cyber Security Engineer

Remote working 

Up to £55,000

Vocative are partnering exclusively with a dynamic and growing company to help them during a period of accelerated growth. This is a chance to be part of something really special.

We are on the lookout for someone passionate about Cyber Security to help review their current systems and work closely with the business to ensure networks and systems are as protected as they can be.

Reporting to the Director of IT, and joining during a period of accelerated growth, you will be able to detect and respond to incidents, continuously improving capabilities in this area. You’ll have experience of investigating incidents in applications and infrastructure across a varied technology stack spanning both cloud and on premises environments. You’ll undertake post incident reviews to identify root causes and put follow up mitigations in place. You’ll be an excellent communicator, with the ability to simplify technical terms for the non-technical person and also manage and build effective relationships.

Proactively monitor the environment to detect and respond to incidents.

Implement change, projects and provide solutions to technical and process cyber challenges.

Correlate data from multiple sources to build dashboards, alerts and reports

Develop playbooks for emerging threats, and continuously improve existing playbooks

Provide technical expertise regarding security-related concepts to operational teams within the Information Technology Department and the business.

Review, investigate, and respond to real-time alerts within the environment.

Monitor online resources for new and emerging cyber threats.

Conducts vulnerability assessments of company systems and networks.

Manage systems owned by the IT Team.

Skills, experience and qualities you’ll need:

Experience responding to incidents across corporate and customer-facing web applications, identifying potential threats and mitigating/escalating as required.

An understanding of relevant security threats and controls to protect against them.

Experience with SIEM Platforms, including working with logs and creating correlation searches and dashboards.

Experience of working within PCI DSS, ISO 27001, or other compliance frameworks.

Experience of monitoring cloud environments using cloud native tooling

Excellent communicator and the ability to build great relationships across the business and articulate concepts to non-technical colleagues

A proficient problem-solver that can work autonomously.

Experience of influencing others effectively and able to overcome customer frustrations positively, whilst remaining engaging and approachable

Experience of Microsoft technologies including Active Directory, File Services and Printer Service

Experience of network fundamentals including DHCP, IP addressing and DNS

Experience of WAN technologies · Experience of managing backup and recovery services

Experience of IT security principles including Anti-Virus technologies, encryption, and Firewalls

Experience delivering technical support of desktop operating systems, specifically Windows.

Experience delivering technical support for MS Office Products, VPN, Android and iOS mobile phones

Experience of conducting research, troubleshooting and diagnosis of a wide range of technical issues

An aptitude for learning new technologies and ways of working

If this sounds like you, please get in touch