Cloud Security Engineer - AWS, London
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Location
City of London, London
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Sector:
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Job type:
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Salary:
Negotiable
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Contact:
Andrew Nitek
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Contact email:
andrew.nitek@thenorthstarr.com
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Job ref:
ANCLOUD_1562577377
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Consultant:
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Unrivalled opportunity to join a highly established international financial services organisation in London in a greenfield role. On offer is the play a pivotal role in the company's move to a cloud based platform. The role offers superb technical and business facing challenges.
- Assist the Information Security Officer in devising Information Security Strategy and roadmaps
- Develop and maintain information security standards and technical specifications
- Develop and manage risk remediation plans, evaluate security and privacy risks, balancing business drivers, best practices, and external drivers
- Provide technical supervision and guidance to the IT and business teams
- Lead IT Security Operations to effective delivery of security work in coordination with Enterprise Architecture, Infrastructure Services and Service Delivery teams
- Design and incorporate additional data feeds to the monitoring scope of the Security Operations Centre (SOC). Ensure adequate levels of coverage are sustained throughout business and IT change
- Work with the Enterprise Architecture team to ensure alignment of technology and security vision from the early stages of idea development and provide security by design
- Represent Information Security in the technical design committee, review and approve design documents
- Develop and maintain security controls for cloud services (eg. IaaS, PaaS, SaaS) as IT strategy moves towards "cloud first"
- Design audits of security capabilities, systems, processes, and procedures to ensure compliance with operational standards and specifications
Key Skills needed:
- 6-8 years of experience within Information Security (CISSP, SANS, CEH)
- Experience in process optimisation and automation
- Experience with scripting languages (Powershell, Python, Bash, Ansible)
- Experience with DevOps environments
- Experience with operating systems, virtualisation and containerisation
- Experience with Amazon Web Services (Solutions Architect Associate, AWS Certified Security Specialty) * Experience with Microsoft Azure and Office 365
- Experience with Incident response and digital forensics processes and procedures
- Understanding of reverse engineering malware concepts tools and techniques
- Understanding of Intrusion Detection systems and techniques
- Understanding of security sub-systems (eg firewalls, VPN, IDS/IPS)
