Security Engineer | 6 – Months | Hybrid | London

My client is looking for a skilled Security Engineer to join their cybersecurity and SecOps division. This role is ideal for someone passionate about building, maintaining and improving security infrastructure to configure hands-on prevention of threats, while also maintaining BAU handling cybersecurity related tickets.

The client isn’t a traditional Microsoft user, for example they do not use Active Directory and use Google Workspace as their email client so experience within a similar environment will be beneficial.

Key Responsibilities of the Security Engineer:

• Dealing with escalation of security related tickets from an external SOC team and providing analysis and hands-on maintenance to solve the issues.
• Designing, implementing and maintaining SIEM dashboards and detection rules using Splunk.
• Monitor and investigate security alerts using the CrowdStrike Platform.
• Management of identity, MDM, or directory services via Jump cloud.
• Conducting regular vulnerability scans and risk assessments using Qualys.
• Play a key role 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:

• Proven experience as a Security Engineer.
• Strong experience with Splunk for log analysis and alerting.
• Proven hands-on experience with CrowdStrike.
• Deep understanding of vulnerability management tools, Qualys preferred.
• Expertise with handling escalated security related tickets.
• 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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