Senior SecOps Analyst

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Cyber security consultant

Platform improvement and optimisation, incident management, and on-call duties (additional pay)

Latest start date: Friday 1 February 2019

Expected contract length: 12 months

Location: London E20 1JN

Organisation the work is for: The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA)

Security clearance: SC cleared, or willing to undertake clearance procedure

About the work:

The specialist will work with the Infrastructure Product Group team, which consists of other DevOps Lead, DevOps engineers, team manager, and SecOps engineers.

The specialist will support and maintain a cloud estate (AWS) and enforce best practice security principles to manage risk. Furthermore, automate security controls (detective and preventative) in an enterprise environment.

Essential skills and experience:

• 3+ years RedHat Enterprise Linux experience, or RHCE certified RHEL7

• 2+ years experience with SELinux

• 3+ years enterprise securing AWS for large enterprises, or AWS Certified Security

• 3+ years Chef/Ansible/Puppet scripting experience, or software development background in Ruby/Python

• 3+ years as a security analyst managing security incidents in cloud estates

• 2+ years as a security architect design and implementing security solutions

• Experience using monitoring tools (Splunk, DataDog, Qualys)

• Experience in security hardening IaaS and PaaS

Nice-to-have skills and experience:

• Proven experience of implementing cloud security best practices

• Experience using dev tools (Git, Jenkins, Nexus)