Security Engineer - Incident Response, AWS, Threat Analysis.

Unrivaled opportunity for a Security Engineer to join North Starr's highly established technology centric client based in central London, in an exciting greenfield role. The role offers a great chance to play a key role in the organisation's information security posture, whilst also gaining experience of cutting edge cloud based technologies.

Key day to day responsibilities will include:

• Managing the development, refresh and implementation of the Information Security Management System".
• Assuring that the company has best of breed 'industry standard' security tooling in place to protect the business's assets.
• Responding swiftly to new and emerging security threats and vulnerabilities, investigate suspected attacks and be an integral part of the Information security incident process
• Working with outside consultants as appropriate for independent security reviews and compliance audits
• Performing regular security reviews, vulnerability, risk assessments and audits
• Building relationships with all staff to promote "Security by Design" throughout the business

Who are you?

As a trusted technical authority, you'll become a go-to person for all things Security engineering, who can demonstrate and apply the following;

• Detailed technical knowledge of vulnerabilities, threats, attack methods and infection vectors
• Significant experience of Vulnerability/compliance, Patch management, Anti-malware, Access Control / Identity management.
• A solid foundation in computer networking fundamentals & security control, firewalls, routing and the various threats applicable to the various OSI Networking layers
• Demonstrable understanding of DLP/IDS/IPS technologies, ability to construct custom signatures and investigate intercepted traffic/logs Strong Technical knowledge of secure engineering principles, privacy (DPA / GDPR) and compliance law and standards (OWASP\ISO\ISF\NIST)
• Working knowledge of Security in AWS / hybrid cloud environments
• Experience supporting, monitoring and alerting on high availability systems and scalable architectures from a security perspective
• Using a different programming language or technology is an opportunity that you will not let you pass by
• Able to balance the demands of delivering high quality and demanding timescales.
• Hold yourself accountable to delivering on your commitments

It would be great if you also could bring

• A desire to constantly challenge the norm
• Willing to attend conferences, webinars and meet-ups and share the learning.
• Experience of using automation to solve complex problems e.g. Machine Learning
• Deep knowledge of the AWS products, tools, services
• The desire to move into a more DevSecOps culture