Cybersecurity Engineer

About the Role

Foresters Financial is seeking a highly skilled Cybersecurity Engineer to join our team. This role involves designing, implementing, and maintaining security controls across both on-premise and Azure Infrastructure.

Key Responsibilities

• Implement and monitor security protocols to prevent, detect, and manage security threats.
• Collaborate with the Systems Support Team to ensure IT Security best practices are followed.
• Analyze security alerts and provide incident response.
• Evaluate security implications of delivering solutions via the cloud.
• Monitor identity and access management, including monitoring for abuse of permissions by authorized system users.
• Liaise with third-party security monitoring solutions to resolve issues.
• Liaise with stakeholders about cybersecurity issues and provide future recommendations.
• Generate reports for technical and non-technical staff and stakeholders.
• Assist with internal and external audits relating to cybersecurity.
• Respond to phishing emails and pharming activity.
• Update and develop security policies.
• Keep up-to-date with the latest security and technology developments.
• Research/evaluate emerging cybersecurity threats and ways to manage them.
• Fix detected vulnerabilities in a timely manner.
• Work with colleagues to ensure systems remain patched and secure.
• Ensure BAU requests are addressed promptly.
• Analyze, troubleshoot, and resolve incidents escalated by 1st/2nd line support.

Requirements

• Excellent IT skills, including knowledge of computer networks, operating systems, software, hardware, and security.
• A good working knowledge of various security technologies such as network and application firewalls, host intrusion prevention, and anti-virus.
• Proven track record of working with o365, providing solutions, and managing improvements to advance the secure score.
• Experience with computer network penetration testing and techniques.
• Ability to identify and mitigate network vulnerabilities and explain how to avoid them.
• Good knowledge of Cloud technologies and migrations.
• Working knowledge of Active Directory.
• Good technical understanding of networks/switches infrastructures.

Benefits

• Competitive salary: £60,000 - £80,000 per annum.
• Flexible/hybrid working.
• Pension plan.
• Bonus.
• Staff savings.
• Opportunities for career development and professional growth.