Information Security Specialist

4 weeks ago


Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom Interface Recruitment UK Full time
Job Description

We are seeking an experienced Information Security Specialist to join our IT team. The successful candidate will be responsible for providing advice and guidance on information security and developing security policies and processes across the entire infrastructure estate.

This role will involve supporting and maintaining information-driven solutions within a fast-paced and challenging environment. The ideal candidate will have a strong understanding of IT infrastructure and information security, as well as excellent analytical and communication skills.

Key Responsibilities:

  1. Assist with information security incident management and response activities
  2. General day-to-day support on managing and responding to security alerts from systems and end users
  3. Perform daily, weekly, and monthly security checks, reconciliation, and compliance checks and investigate exceptions
  4. Fulfil information security requirement questionnaires and support the process
  5. Identify security risks
  6. Report security risks to the management team and the board
  7. Create security policies, processes, and procedures
  8. Compile a list of technical controls to strengthen the security capabilities and resilience to continued cyber threats
  9. Be aware of information security risks, mitigations, and opportunities to strengthen resilience to cyber-attacks and information security incidents
  10. Implementation of monitoring, reporting systems, and applications
  11. Document user requirements and technical training guides
  12. Risk registration - management
  13. Test information security disaster recovery and capabilities - identifying issues and work with the organisation to drive continual improvements.

Requirements:

  1. Hands-on experience of information security
  2. Exposure to info sec standards including but not limited to Cyber Essentials, ISO 27001, 27002 etc. Data Protection Act and the General Data Protection Regulation
  3. Good understanding of security testing principles, including experience of vulnerability scanning, identifying, resolving, and reporting risks
  4. Documentation creation

Desirable Skills:

  1. Detailed knowledge of information security
  2. Threat analysis
  3. Reporting
  4. Information incident management
  5. Security Incident Response processes, procedures, and best practices
  6. Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity principles
  7. Event and log analysis

Core Behavioural Skills:

  1. Confident individual with good interpersonal skills, able to deal with people at all levels and communicate to users in a clear, non-technical language
  2. Team-player
  3. Analytically minded, able to break down and understand information
  4. Must be comfortable with working in a fast-moving, dynamic environment
  5. Strongly customer-focused, used to providing support to demanding users
  6. Good organisational skills, used to managing and prioritising own workload
  7. Ability to report on progress, timescales, outstanding and completed activities


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