IT Security Specialist

7 days ago

West Yorkshire, United Kingdom Interface Recruitment UK Full time
Job Description

**Job Title:** IT Security Specialist

**Job Type:** Full-time

**Company:** Interface Recruitment UK

**Location:** Remote (UK)

**Job Category:** IT & Technology

**About Us:

Interface Recruitment UK is a leading recruitment agency specializing in IT and technology placements. We are seeking an experienced IT Security Specialist to join our team.

**Job Summary:

We are looking for a highly skilled IT Security Specialist to provide expert advice and guidance on IT security and further develop IT policies and processes across a multi-region infrastructure. The successful candidate will review all aspects of the IT environment and its components, supporting Governance, Risk, and Compliance activities.

**Key Responsibilities:

  • Develop and maintain policies within our Information Security Management System to support business requirements and align with ISO 27001.
  • Maintain a register of security controls to identify compliance against security standards, including ISO 27001, NIST, COBIT, etc.
  • Develop and enhance security policies, processes, procedures, and technical controls to strengthen security capabilities and resilience to cyber threats.
  • Maintain and manage the IT Risk Register to ensure that IT risks are regularly reviewed, correctly identified, assessed, reported, and mitigated in line with recommended best practices.
  • Identify and raise awareness of security risks.
  • Develop a register of regional regulatory privacy requirements and develop processes to monitor regional controls to ensure compliance.
  • Perform daily, weekly, and monthly security checks, reconciliation, and compliance checks and investigate exceptions.
  • Complete client security requirement questionnaires and support the bidding process.
  • Assist with security incident management and response activities.
  • General day-to-day support on managing and responding to security alerts from systems and end users.
  • Support the wider IT team to provide and share technical knowledge and security best practices.
  • Test DR plans, processes, and capabilities to ensure they work as designed, identifying gaps and lessons learned and work with the business to drive continual development and enhancement.

**Requirements:

  • At least 13 years of educational background.
  • Excellent working knowledge of security and governance, risk, and compliance within an enterprise environment.
  • Hands-on experience of enterprise information security and standards, including Cyber Essentials, ISO 27001, 27002, etc.
  • Detailed knowledge of threat intelligence analysis and best practice, security incident response processes, procedures, and best practices, disaster recovery and business continuity principles and testing methodologies, risk analysis and data management methodologies, event and log analysis.
  • Strong analytical skills, able to break down and understand complex information.
  • Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, able to deal with people at all levels and communicate to users in a clear, non-technical language.
  • Ability to work in a fast-moving, dynamic environment and prioritize tasks effectively.
  • Strong customer focus, used to providing support to demanding users.
  • Good organizational skills, used to managing and prioritizing own workload.
  • Ability to report on progress, timescales, outstanding, and completed activities.

**What We Offer:

Interface Recruitment UK offers a competitive salary and benefits package, as well as opportunities for professional growth and development.

**How to Apply:

If you are a motivated and experienced IT Security Specialist looking for a new challenge, please submit your application, including your resume and a cover letter, to [insert contact information].

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