Network Security Domain Lead

The Platform Technology area is looking to recruit a Domain Lead for the Network Security Platform Team. Network Security is a developing area for Admiral’s Platform Services area as they diversify into new technologies. The successful candidate will provide both technical leadership and pastoral care for a growing team that will play an important part in Admiral’s security strategy, working alongside other Domain Leads in Platform Services.

It is expected that the individual comes from a highly technical background in network security and is cyber security specialist, evangelist, and advocate.The Domain Lead is responsible for leading their team to deliver superior technical outcomes, whilst continuing to develop their own technical skills and knowledge.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership for the Network Security and to wider teams
• Line management duties for Technical Leads and Engineers with a view to focussing on coaching and mentoring techniques that align to both agile principles and Admiral values
• Collaborate with Platform Services technical leadership team and wider teams to understand demand and resource requirements
• Accountable for maintaining and facilitating team level resource plans, forecasts future resource requirements, working with the Service Owner, Technical Lead, and Scrum Master to agree future resourcing strategies
• Develop and drive the platform to support Admiral’s strategic aims
• Ensure platforms are secure, continuously compliant, and maintained to meet Group Minimum Standards
• Owns and is accountable for KPIs/OKRs for the team and maximises the team’s ability to deliver these
• Lead the Network Security function and mentor and inspire engineers
• Drive collaboration and a continuous improvement mind-set across the team
• Embed productivity, quality, transparency and openness as core values
• Manage the career development for the Network Security function
  • Establish a clear career structure for engineers with career levels, competencies, and salary bands defined
  • Develop training plans to support career development
  • Champion “extracurricular” activities to further develop engineering excellence and position Admiral as a technology employer of choice
• Own and manage risks, issues, and dependencies at team level
• Development and monitoring of key performance indicators.
• Manage budgeting, forecasts, and plans for growth
• Identifying, track, remove, and escalate impediments and blockers at team level to maintain both pace and flow of value
• Manage budgeting, forecasts, and plans for growth
• Develop a happy and talented team ensuring that the culture within the department reflects the four pillars of “Communication, Equality, Reward and Recognition and Fun”
• Inspire employees and act as a role model for the behaviours that encourage a high standard of product delivery

Essential Skills/Experience

• Experienced leader able to lead calmly through periods of high pressure whilst inspiring people and teams to achieve excellence and grow their skills
• Knowledge and experience operating within enterprise scale network technology
• Knowledge and experience (5yrs+) operating within:
  • Network switching and routing
  • Cyber threat analysis and kill chain
  • Next Generation Firewalls, preferably Palo Alto
  • Application Delivery Controller, preferably F5 Big-IP
  • Web Application Firewalls
  • WAF/WAAP platforms
  • DevOps tools and methods, including automation
• Knowledge and experience with line management through both coaching and mentoring techniques
• Experience operating within heavily regulated environments including external regulated consumer products and service offerings
• Knowledge of identification and management of specific engineering, design, and testing standards and practices that comply with internal organisation IT governance and architectural standards within a heavily regulated environment
• Knowledge and experience with design & development of cloud resources at scale
• Extensive knowledge and experience with 3^rd party service providers including facilitation of RFP, onboarding, and performance management (design of SLA and overall KPI)
• Experience and awareness of IT architectural governance, standards, and methodology
• Experience and awareness of CISO governance frameworks, standards, controls, and auditing documentation covering both business and technology solutions currently within product backlogs  
• Extensive experience with project management fundamentals with the ability to apply principles, tools and techniques to develop/plan, manage or execute projects to ensure successful completion.
• Drive, enthusiasm, and a can-do attitude

Desirable qualifications

• Cyber/security qualifications – CompTIA Security+, SANS, CISSP, CISA, CISM, etc
• Palo Alto Network Security certification(s)
• Cisco Networks certification(s)

Benefits and Work-Life Balance

At Admiral, we are proud to be a diverse business where we put our people and customers first. We have great benefits to ensure employees have a great work-life balance; it's one of the reasons we’re consistently voted one of the Sunday Times Best Big Companies to work for in the UK. We want you to have an element of freedom to define a working lifestyle that supports this, so accommodate flexible hours wherever possible.

All colleagues will receive 33 days holiday (including banks holidays) when they join us, and this will increase with length of service, up to a maximum of 38 days (including banks holidays). You also have the option to buy or sell up to five days of annual leave in addition to your allocation.

You can also view some of our other key benefits here.

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