Security Operations Lead
2 months ago
The Acorn Group are currently recruiting for a brand new role in our Cyber Security Team as a Security Operations Lead. While leading the team of 3, you will be responsible for aligning securities’ strategies and roadmaps, delivering technical security solutions and toolkit while ensuring all services across technical estate are delivered securely,
Job Title: Security Operations Lead
Location: Liverpool City Centre / Formby; Hybrid working available with management discretion
Salary: £Competitive
Working Hours: 37.5 hours per week, Monday to Friday 09:00 to 17:30
What you will be doing:
- Manage the workload, tasks, priorities, technical and personal development of the SecOps team
- Oversee and review all security implementations, configurations, and maintenance of technologies to SLAs & KPIs
- Ensure all necessary technical security controls are in place and implemented to best practice standards
- In collaboration with Head of Information Security and technical peers, deliver cost effective security solutions
- Work with the Project and Technical teams for change projects, ensuring security is considered throughout
- Continually monitor, maintain and test our threat landscape and security posture
- Perform regular reviews of our current security solutions and processes, identifying opportunities for optimisation
- Identify and evaluate alternative vendors & technologies to improve security posture & business requirements
- Support and influence the penetration testing and vulnerability scanning strategy, identifying and, working with your technical peers, resolve security vulnerabilities in a timely manner, in accordance with our security guidelines.
- Support the business in maintaining and achieving several industry certifications, aligning where appropriate, including PCI/DSS, Cyber Essentials Plus and ISO27001
- Provide adequate governance support, maintaining a central security logging solution, analysing, mitigating, and reporting on any security threats identified as well as record on risk logs.
- Provide expertise & support in troubleshooting, resolution, mitigation and reporting of any security incidents and root cause analysis.
We are looking for colleagues who:
- Live and breathe security, with a high level of understanding of security technologies & standards.
- Proven experience in a similar senior security focused role performing technical operational security disciplines in a similar sized organisation, and team supervision, leader or management experience
- Comfortable with NIST, NCSC & CIS standards and controls and where they can be applied
- An understanding of security governance, risk and compliance and the support expectations
- Familiarity with web related technologies; Web applications, Web Services and network/web-related protocols
- Good knowledge of Azure Cloud platform assets and security tools
- Experience with Office 365 Security suites, and Endpoint Security
- Experience within the design and implementation of enterprise-grade security solutions; Anti-malware, IPS/IDS, Firewalls, SWG & SEG & SIEM
- Experience in managing TLS, SSL certificates, encryption, DKIM/SPF and DDoS.
About Acorn Insurance
We are a growing business with great opportunities to build your knowledge of the financial services industry. As a specialist insurance provider, we have 40 years of experience helping people secure motor insurance across all of the UK. We help more than 50,000 customers to find a policy that meets their needs and gives them the peace of mind that comes with high-quality insurance.
At Acorn Insurance we provide full training and continuous coaching in house you will be given full in-depth FCA regulated industry knowledge and have all the tools necessary to help you personally grow your career with the business.
We celebrate difference and it’s important to us that we have a culture where our people feel respected and valued for who they are. We pride ourselves on being accessible and encourage inclusive environments where our people can always give and show the very best of themselves.
Why Acorn Insurance?
Acorn Insurance want to give you more than a job, we want to give you a purpose and a career. Enhanced Annual Leave entitlement starting at 31 days and potentially increasing to 35 days per year depending on grade & length of service (including bank holidays)
- Additional Buy & Sell Holidays
- Company Sick Pay Scheme
- Company Paid Maternity & Paternity Leave
- Generous Company Pension Scheme
- A comprehensive Mental Health support system via the health assured Employee Assistance Programme (EAP)
- A wide network of mental health first-aiders.
- Our very own reward and discount platform "Your tomorrow"
- Fresh fruit Deliveries twice a week
- £250 Refer a friend bonus
- Cycle to work scheme
- Free eye test vouchers and a contribution towards the frames
- Regular Employment Engagement including ongoing competitions with fantastic prizes
- Charity fundraising events
All roles are subject to DBS and Financial checks, any offer made will be conditional until checks are completed to a satisfactory standard.
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