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Information Security Engineer

Employer
BPP EDUCATION GROUP
Location
London, United Kingdom
Salary
Competitive
Closing date
13 Nov 2019

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Job Details

Location: London
Closing date: 13/11/2019
Salary: Competitive
Employment type: Permanent
Department: Group IT - IT Operations

London, office based, with travel throughout the UK & Channel Islands

Job Purpose:

The InfoSec Engineer will be an integral part of the Infrastructure Team, planning and carrying out security measures to monitor and protect sensitive data and systems from infiltration and cyber-attacks. 

The InfoSec Engineer will define, implement, uphold and maintain security standards.  Safeguarding the infrastructure and resources, supporting day-to-day operations, along with current and future project initiatives.

Responsibilities:

Develop Information Security Plans and Policies

  • Help plan and carry out information security strategy
  • Develop a set of security standards and best practices, and recommend security enhancements to management as needed
  • Develop strategies to respond to and recover from a security breach
  • Responsible for educating the workforce on information security through training and building awareness

Implement Protections

  • Install and use software, such as firewalls and data encryption programs, to protect organizations’ sensitive information.
  • Assist computer users with installation or processing of new security products and procedures.

Test for Vulnerabilities

  • Conduct periodic scans of networks to find any vulnerability
  • Conduct penetration testing, in which they simulate an attack on the system to highlight or find any weaknesses that might be exploited by a malicious party

Monitor for Security Breaches

  • Constantly monitor networks and systems for security breaches or intrusions
  • Install software that helps notify of intrusions and watch out for irregular system behaviour.

Investigate Security Breaches

  • If a breach has occurred, leads incident response activities to minimise the impact
  • Lead a technical and forensic investigation into how the breach happened and the extent of the damage
  • Prepare reports of findings to be reported to management.

Core skills:

  • design new security systems and upgrade existing ones
  • use advanced analytic tools to determine emerging threat patterns and vulnerabilities
  • engage in 'ethical hacking', for example, simulating security breaches
  • identify potential weaknesses and implement measures, such as firewalls and encryption
  • investigate security alerts and provide incident response
  • monitor identity and access management, including monitoring for abuse of permissions by authorised system users
  • monitor for attacks, intrusions and unusual, unauthorized or illegal activity
  • test and evaluate security products
  • monitor and respond to 'phishing' emails and 'pharming' activity
  • direct experience with anti-virus software, access management, vulnerability management, intrusion detection, firewalls and content filtering
  • experience with CyberEssentials, ISO27001 and PCI-DSS
  • DNS, DMARC, SPF, DKIM
  • experience designing secure networks, systems and application architectures on prem and cloud based
  • Professional experience in a system administration role supporting multiple platforms and applications
  • keep up to date with the latest security and technology developments
  • research/evaluate emerging cyber security threats and ways to manage them
  • knowledge of disaster recovery, computer forensic tools, technologies and methods
  • liaise with stakeholders in relation to cyber security issues and provide future recommendations
  • generate reports for both technical and non-technical staff and stakeholders
  • knowledge of risk assessment tools, technologies and methods
  • assist with the creation, maintenance and delivery of cyber security awareness training for colleagues
  • give advice and guidance to staff on issues such as spam and unwanted or malicious email
  • Ability to communicate network security issues to peers and management
  • Ability to read and use the results of mobile code, malicious code, and anti-virus software
  • Strong understanding of endpoint security solutions to include File Integrity Monitoring and Data Loss Prevention

Knowledge, skills and experience required

  • To proactively implement, update, maintain, manage, monitor, and support enterprise network and systems infrastructure
  • To mentor and lead other technical engineers and technical personnel 
  • Experience planning, researching, developing & communicating security policies, standards and procedures
  • To lead/facilitate meetings and conduct presentations to technical and business staff
  • To communicate technical concepts and proposals into understandable and justifiable business initiatives
  • To participate in the definition of specific technical design, product selection, device standardization
  • Be aware of key business objectives and ensure these are applied appropriately to all business activities
  • Develop effective relationships
  • Able to anticipate and understand customer expectations, and ensure customer requirements are met and expectations appropriately managed
  • Able to build partner relationships with customers and focus on solving their problems.
  • Effective communication skills suitable for the management of and liaison with departmental staff and senior management, both on a one to one and one to many basis
  • Demonstrate effective communication, both orally and in writing, with peers, colleagues, clients and customers including producing reports, preparing, organising and delivering presentations using appropriate tools and techniques, and taking a leading role in meetings and discussions.
  • Effective at determining a course of action by breaking it down into smaller steps and by planning and resourcing each of these, making allowance for potential problems
  • Must manage the field of responsibility within allocated budgets and be able to plan and forecast future budgets based on business priorities.
  • Awareness of BPP strategy, policies and procedures. Aware of how the organisation operates.
  • Able to contribute effectively towards the objectives of a team, and be able to share knowledge, ideas and information
  • Aware of the needs, objectives and constraints of those in other disciplines and functions
  • Able to solve problems in a measured and creative way
  • Capable of independently assessing a wide variety of tasks and be proactive in relation to identifying and undertaking activities that are to the benefit of the business
  • Able to balance long and short-term objectives and understand business value. Be responsible for own decisions.
  • Act in a professional manner and exhibit the required behaviour that should act as an example to other employees
  • Able to network throughout the wider IT community.
  • Undertake tasks with a positive attitude and respond well to management and client requests.
  • Must be prepared to meet business goals and respond well to change.
  • Azure, AWS, On prem
  • Tenable, Nessus, Bluecoat, Checkpoint, Cisco, Meraki, Windows, Linux, NetAPP, f5
  • Extensive experience in a similar role
  • CISSP Certification
  • AWS Certified Security – Speciality
  • Azure Security Engineer Associate
  • ITIL Foundation

Information Security Engineer  

Company

When you work with BPP, you will be part of a business that really believes in supporting your personal and professional development. With so many different business areas, we offer a wide range of exciting opportunities across the UK and abroad – from teaching to marketing to business development to human resources to name only a few. But what really makes working at BPP rewarding, is the culture of encouragement, respect and teamwork.

Company info
Location
BPP HOUSE
ALDINE PLACE
142-144 UXBRIDGE ROAD
SHEPHERD'S BUSH
LONDON
W12 8AW
GB

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