Security Engineer
Cardiff
- Full time
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Description
The Security Engineers are responsible for implementing, configuring and evolving the security technology portfolio. The Security Engineering team sits within the Advanced Threat Engineering operation which forms part of the wider Information Security Operations team (SOC (Security Operations Centre), Incident Response, Forensics, and Threat Intelligence). This is a proactive role and the successful candidate will have strong analytical and troubleshooting skills and a desire to learn new technologies.
The role would suit someone who has worked with a diverse set of IT/security products across a large on-premise infrastructure managed in house and who has experience of supporting the environment.
Responsibilities
The Information Security Engineers will:
- Day to day support and maintenance of Security tooling.
- Take a threat led approach to generating mitigation and countermeasures.
- Maximising security value from existing investments.
- Understand the key risks the organisation faces, the key tactics techniques and procedures that likely threat actors will exploit and create control boundaries to intersect these domains.
- Work collaboratively with wider Information Security team. This would include working with: The Incident Response team, assisting with incidents and enhancing Incident Response tooling; Security Architecture to ensure that any existing constraints are overcome within forward looking plans; and with the Security Consultants to provide additional technical knowledge.
- Take part in post incident reviews and propose engineering resolution to improve results in any future recurrence.
- Champion best practice methods for web application hosting and protection, endpoint management and software defined protection.
- Monitor the capacity of security tooling & supporting infrastructure and project future capacity for security products.
- Recognise that telemetry for security products will increasingly be curated in the cloud and be prepared to develop API endpoints and connections to collect and collate this knowledge.
- Understand and develop security configurations for micro services, serverless computing and software as a service security solutions.
- Work with the third-party suppliers of the Security Products.
- Participate in the Information Security On-Call rota.
Essential Experience & Skills
- Proven experience of supporting IT/Security infrastructure
- Strong technical background is required with knowledge of managing, supporting and creating policy for at least one of the following areas:
- Internet Filtering
- Email Filtering
- EndPoint Detection and Response
- Host Based Firewalling, HIDS/HIPS
- Antimalware
- The ability to pick up and learn new technology approaches and make rapid decisions on the best way to use these technology advancements for the betterment of the overall security posture.
- Excellent communication skills as the ability to communicate effectively, constructively, confidently and professionally is key to the success in the role as is the ability to work with IT and Information Security teams and the wider business.
- An excellent knowledge of Information Security principles and an understanding of the Cyber Kill Chain, MITRE ATT&CK and other information security defence and intelligence frameworks.
- Keen attention to detail and excellent analytical skills.
- Ability to actively manage workloads to meet business and department requirements.
Desirable Skills
- One or more technical Information Security Certifications such as:
- CompTIA: Security+
- GIAC Certification: GCWN, GSEC
- Degree in an Information Security / Computing discipline
- Experience in ITIL concepts
- Experience working within in an Agile framework
- Experience with a least 1 of the main cloud vendors (Amazon Web Services, Azure, Google Cloud Platform)
- Familiarity with a programming or scripting language
- Familiarity with regex/regular expressions
- Familiarity with DLP
- A working knowledge of financial services and the typical business processes involved together with the threat actors and their relevant tactics, techniques and procedures would be of significant advantage.
About Admiral
We're Wales’ only FTSE 100 company. We have forward-thinking approaches and provide endless opportunities to test, learn and grow. There's a reason we've been named a Best Place to Work: our progressive culture, core values, and commitment to diversity and inclusion have created a working environment where people share ideas, aren’t afraid to speak up and change things, and above all, feel valued.
Admiral has grown from being a small start-up into a multi-national organisation. The company is constantly investigating new products, services and markets and is now present in eight countries with a diverse product portfolio.
Our success goes hand-in-hand with having a strong culture where we put our people and customers first. Our philosophy is simple yet effective: people who like what they do, do it better, and this, in turn, means that our customers receive the level of service and products that they deserve. Our culture is honest, open and wholeheartedly focused on four key areas:
Communication, Equality, Reward & Recognition, and Fun.
Salary, Benefits and Work-Life Balance
We do not have a set salary for this position, as it will be dependent on the successful candidate’s experience. We are happy to see CVs from all candidates who meet the requirements and will be happy to discuss the remuneration package.
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 voted no. 1 in the 2019 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.
You can also view some of our other key benefits here; https://admiraljobs.co.uk/employee-benefits/.
If you think this role is for you and would like to be considered for this opportunity, please click “apply now” to complete an online application form.
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Senior Talent Partner - Tech & Data
What areas do you look after?
I recruit for positions in the Tech & Data areas.
Tell us about you and your Admiral story?
I joined Admiral in October 2017 as a Retentions Consultant. In the Renewals department I dealt directly with customer queries and progressed quickly into management. During my time in Renewals, I was involved with both internal and external recruitment, which prompted me to move to the Recruitment team in March 2021.
Why would you recommend Admiral?
Admiral has provided me with knowledge and experiences that I would never have dreamed of when finishing university. There is a vast range of opportunities for self-development and the support the company offers will help make this a lifelong career in a fantastic place to work.
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