IT Security Specialist

1 week ago


Wakefield, Wakefield, United Kingdom Interface Recruitment UK Full time
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We are seeking a skilled IT Security Engineer to protect our company's information assets by ensuring systems, infrastructure, networking, and hosting services are secure. The successful candidate will provide maintenance, development, and 2nd/3rd line support of the IT security toolset, network, and systems, and perform vulnerability management, remediation, and ensure the development of secure and compliant IT and business solutions.

Key Responsibilities:

  1. Respond to and/or escalate security alerts generated by the IT security toolset; identify and remediate IT security risks and vulnerabilities.
  2. Ensure all security platforms, policies, and procedures are effective and maintained.
  3. Work closely with the IT Operations Team to assess security infrastructure, network, and systems.
  4. Identify security risks, threats, and vulnerabilities of networks, systems, applications, and new technology initiatives.
  5. React to and initiate corrective action regarding security violations, attempts to gain unauthorized access, virus infections that may affect the network, or other events affecting security.
  6. Perform risk and impact analysis on proposed changes and projects to the security infrastructure.
  7. Monitor security system logs (i.e., Web Application Firewall, firewall system logs, etc.) performance issues, inappropriate access patterns).
  8. Help develop and maintain the suite of Technical Security Standards necessary to ensure a consistent and up-to-date technically secure environment.
  9. Assist Supplier Oversight activities by performing Technical Security related Risk Assessments as and when required.
  10. Provide expert technical security services as and when required for Client requirements, internal audit, external audit, and any prevailing Certification activities.
  11. Comprehensive understanding and experience of designing, configuring, implementing, and deploying firewalls, IDS/IPS, authentication systems, log management, content filtering, Mobile Device Management, and technologies based on IT/Cyber Security best practices.
  12. Experience in networking, troubleshooting, and analysis tools.
  13. Experience in vulnerability assessments, penetration testing, and patch management.
  14. Identify, assess, report, and mitigate technical security related risks within business processes, projects, systems, 3rd party, and client engagements.
  15. Either a recognised Information Security / IT qualification, or working towards a relevant certification (eg: CompTIA Security+, SANS GIAC, CISSP, CISA, CISM), or commensurate experience.
  16. Secure configuration and support of outsourced services and Cloud service provision including eg: PaaS, SaaS, IaaS.
  17. Strong experience of the systems and associated operations relating to SIEM, IDS/IPS, Vulnerability Scanning/Penetration Testing, Mobile Device Management.
  18. Working knowledge of network security, authentication mechanisms, wireless, encryption technologies, and networking protocols including HTTP(S), DNS, SMTP, TCP/IP, UDP, and SNMP.

The Benefits:

Competitive salary with annual bonus.

Contributory pension.

3% flexible benefits - including cycle to work, critical illness, dental insurance, childcare vouchers, travel insurance, dining club, retail discounts, and the option to buy up to one week's worth of holiday subject to start date.



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