Senior IT Security Specialist

2 weeks ago


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

We are seeking a highly skilled Senior IT Security Specialist to join our team at Interface Recruitment UK. This role will focus on reviewing all aspects of the IT environment and its components, with a strong emphasis on gathering requirements, designing and implementing enterprise-wide solutions.

The successful candidate will be responsible for proactively improving and providing advice and guidance on information security matters, with a focus on developing and enhancing security policies, processes, procedures and technical controls to strengthen security capabilities and resilience to cyber threats.

Main Responsibilities

  • Develop and enhance security policies, processes, procedures and technical controls to strengthen security capabilities and resilience to cyber threats.
  • Take a proactive role in identifying security risks, mitigations and opportunities to strengthen resilience to cyber-attacks and security incidents.
  • Participate in the design and implementation of systems and applications to ensure that proposed solutions comply with the company's IT Security policies.
  • Assist with security incident management and response activities.
  • Interact with the IT team to provide and share technical issue resolution knowledge and deployment/adoption processes best practices.
  • Configuration and maintenance of Microsoft 365 security solutions including Azure Information Protection, Data Loss Protection, Rights Management and Cloud App Security Broker, ensuring alignment to both business requirements and security best practices.
  • Implementation of an automatic information classification process, that will tag documents with the correct classification, based on content, either at creation or retrospectively.
  • Creation and maintenance of an Information Asset Register.
  • Creation and implementation of Data Loss Prevention rules that protect information from being transferred using unauthorised methods or to inappropriate recipients.
  • Develop end user and technical guidance for utilising and supporting Microsoft Cloud Security solutions, for example, OneDrive, Teams, OneNote, Outlook etc.
  • Provide analysis of information security risk and issues of non-compliance.
  • Employ previous experience and industry best practices to monitor, enhance and report on security posture, including dashboard reports and management information.
  • Gather and use cyber threat intelligence to provide greater insight into cyber threats, to enable a faster, more targeted response and to identify new risks, along with proactive, best practice methods to mitigate them.
Requirements
  • Excellent hands-on experience of security and/or infrastructure within an enterprise environment.
  • Comprehensive experience and in-depth knowledge of enterprise information security and standards including Cyber Essentials, ISO 27001, 27002 etc. Data Protection Act and the General Data Protection Regulation.
  • Microsoft O365 Security solutions; Microsoft core OS; Networking; Security operations; Penetration testing; Security Auditing; Forensics; Security architecture.
  • Good understanding of security testing principles, including experience of penetration testing, identifying, resolving and reporting risks.
  • Experience of formal document creation, such as the creation of reports or procedures.
  • Experience of carrying out risk reviews, technology audits or other similar work.


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