Security Engineer | Hybrid | London | 6 – Months

My client is looking for a Security Engineer to join their cybersecurity and SecOps division. The successful candidate with be maintaining and improving security infrastructure, while also maintaining BAU handling cybersecurity related tickets.

The client doesn’t use the traditional Microsoft suite and uses Google workspace for cloud-based productivity and management of work.

Key Responsibilities of the Security Engineer:

• Dealing with escalation of security related tickets and hands-on maintenance to solve the issues.
• Creating SIEM dashboards and detection rules using Splunk.
• Using CrowdStrike to monitor and investigate security alerts.
• Management of identity, MDM, or directory services via Jump cloud.
• Conducting regular vulnerability scans and risk assessments using Qualys.
• Work within the SecOps team and collaboration with other IT teams to insure secure system configurations.
• Stay Informed on emerging threats, vulnerabilities and best practice within cyber security.

Requirements and Experience of the Security Engineer:

• Must have proven experience as a Security Engineer.
• Strong experience with Splunk for log analysis and alerting.
• Proven expertise and hands-on experience with CrowdStrike.
• Deep understanding of vulnerability management tools, Qualys preferred.
• Expertise with handling escalated security related tickets.
• Experience working with a business that doesn’t use the Microsoft suite is desirable.
• Relevant certifications include (GCIA, GCIH, CISSP, Splunk Certified User) are a bonus.
• Experience within the professional regulated services, preferably financial sector is desirable.

The successful Security Engineer candidate will initially be working Onsite near Aldgate station but would convert to a more hybrid structure after the first month.

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