Senior Cybersecurity Specialist

4 weeks ago


London, Greater London, United Kingdom CDP Full time

Job Purpose and Background

CDP is a leading not-for-profit charity that runs the global disclosure system for investors, companies, cities, states, and regions to manage their environmental impacts. As we continue to expand our technological capabilities, ensuring robust and dependable security infrastructure and practices is essential to our long-term future.

We are seeking a Senior Security Engineer to play a key role in contributing to and implementing our new global security roadmap, encompassing infrastructure, tooling, policies, procedures, certifications, and training. This is an exciting opportunity to contribute to shaping and developing a new Security function, leveraging the latest Azure technologies, with a vision of attaining ISO27001 certification in the near-future.

About CDP

CDP is a gold standard of environmental reporting with the richest and most comprehensive dataset on corporate and city action. Our new five-year strategy, Accelerating the Rate of Change, aims to drive meaningful action towards a sustainable future.

Key Responsibilities

  • Support internal IT staff with security matters and reinforce key security principles.
  • Provide cybersecurity support for IT infrastructure.
  • Conduct security analysis and risk assessments, and remediate and track results.
  • Contribute to the maintenance of cybersecurity plans, policies, and processes, and implement initiatives to ensure compliance.
  • Lead internal and external cybersecurity audits and pen testing all infrastructure, reporting and remediating issues.
  • Manage MFA, firewalls, web filtering solutions, antivirus, and anti-malware software.
  • Evaluate new software and hardware for security vulnerabilities and risks.
  • Perform regular monitoring for intrusions/unusual activity and investigate and respond to any threats.
  • Perform internal and perimeter firewall configurations and changes.
  • Assist with the management and administration of Azure security, Microsoft Sentinel, Defender, and Defender for Cloud.
  • Assist in the implementation, deployment, management, and monitoring of CDP's security catalogue.

Tech-Stack

Azure Sentinel, Azure Log Analytics, Azure Defender, and Azure Defender For Cloud, AppCheck, Azure Security, Microsoft Intune, Forcepoint, Cisco Meraki

Requirements

  • At least 2 years of relevant working experience in cybersecurity, with a focus on implementing across platforms including security, performance, and reliability.
  • Excellent knowledge and experience in public, private, and hybrid cloud solutions; Microsoft Azure essential, as well as current trends.
  • Good knowledge of core infrastructure, designing, engineering, and implementing across platforms including Wintel, Linux Storage, backups, IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service), and PaaS (Platform as a Service).
  • Excellent knowledge of cybersecurity SaaS providers.
  • Understanding of networks, both cloud native and within on-premises data centres.
  • Excellent skills in Azure Security.
  • Excellent interpersonal and client-handling skills, with the ability to manage expectations and simplify detail to key principles and decisions.
  • Excellent written, verbal, and presentation skills in English to properly articulate complicated security requirements to management, key partners, and other stakeholders.
  • Demonstrable ability for a high attention to detail and capacity to be flexible in both process and problem-solving.
  • Business and organisational awareness, agility to learn, and willingness to challenge and improve.
  • A positive team player with a high level of self-motivation and drive, committed to achieving high standards, even with challenging deadlines.

Preferred

  • Knowledge of infrastructure monitoring/logging, performance, and capacity management, automation, and application toolchain (CI/CD) is an advantage.

Salary and Benefits

  • Competitive NGO salary and 8% Company Pension Program.
  • 30 days annual holidays (with purchased leave options).
  • Flexible working hours (with option to take flex-days).
  • Up to 6 months remote work anywhere in the world.
  • Paid sabbaticals, enhanced maternity/paternity/adoption leave.
  • Office offering prayer room and breastfeeding facilities.

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