Senior Cyber Security Specialist

1 month ago


Kingston upon Thames, United Kingdom Kingston University Full time

The Role

This is an exciting opportunity to join our Cyber Security team as we implement the next phase of our multi-layered cyber defence environment at Kingston. Our vision is for IT to be a valued business partner, providing innovative secure services to 17,000 students and 2000 staff. As the Senior Cyber Security Specialist, you will be involved in all aspects of cloud security within the organisation, operation and support of key security systems and services that underpin the protection of Kingston’s digital services, infrastructure, data and users.

As the Senior Cyber Security Specialist, you will use your extensive expertise to help with the design and implementation of security controls, working as part of a team of security professionals, monitoring cloud environments for threats, and ensuring compliance with industry regulations. You will work closely with IT teams to secure the technology and develop/update security standards & policies to safeguard our digital services, ensuring they are secure and fit for purpose enabling the University to deliver its strategy.

The Person

You will be responsible for the day-to-day operational management of the cybersecurity systems and services (both cloud and on-prem) to ensure University IT assets and systems are secure and compliant (physical, user and data). The role will ensure the management, maintenance and support of core threat protection tools and associated infrastructure to mitigate risk and protect against security vulnerabilities whilst help with educating our business on cybersecurity best practices for cloud computing and contributing to the creation of security solutions that allow our business to implement that best practice easily and by default. Working with stakeholders across related disciplines you will contribute to efforts to integrate our cloud security solutions and toolchain with our enterprise security capabilities.

You will bring to the role extensive, relevant knowledge and experience of IT best practices including proven experience in managing enterprise security platforms, highly developed IT security management and in-depth technical skills. You should have the ability to assess information systems processes, IT services, and system threats and solve logical problems, as well as experience in network and system issues.

Directorate/Function

Work at the forefront of digital technology

Information and Technology Services provides and supports digital services and facilities for students and staff to enable learning, teaching, research and administration. Our key functions are to innovate, implement and support an extensive range of digital services across the University to assist our community access and process information to achieve their goals.

In addition to making a valuable contribution to sustainability across the University, our staff share a high customer service ethic and commitment to continuous improvement. 



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