Infrastructure/SOC Security Engineer


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Experis IT

Listed on

21st May 2021

Location

Manchester

Salary/Rate

£400 - £500

Type

Contract

Start Date

ASAP

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Infrastructure Security Engineer

Duration: 6 months

Location: ManchesterIR35: OutsideWorking from Home available Experis are currently looking for a Security Engineer for a public sector client r to provide detailed hands on technical security support and management to a highly available infrastructure estate across 7 UK sites. ResponsibilitiesProvide security operational support for solutions deployed across our infrastructure.Complete reviews of the current infrastructure estate in terms of security compliance and vulnerabilities. Identify areas of non-compliance and ensure areas of weakness are enhanced.Provide analysis and trending of security log data from a number of security tools and advise on or take appropriate action.Assist in the conduct of security audits of technical solutions detailing recommendations, improvements and corrective actions.Perform monitoring and analysis of security tools and logs for indications of attacks.Lead the technical response to security incidents and document progress as required.Work closely with Infrastructure and Cyber Security Managers when managing issues related to infrastructure security.Work on projects to ensure security requirements are documented in the service design package and have been met.Provide support for vulnerability assessment tools and work closely with infrastructure teams to prioritise and remediate identified findings.Manage the schedule for vulnerability assessments and provide necessary reports associated with the schedule on a timely basis.Work with cloud based suppliers who host systems that are entirely remote or heavily integrated with our own internal infrastructure.Diagnose security incidents and identify the root causes.Recommend and implement temporary workarounds for known errors and identify areas that would provide mitigations against the incidents re-occurring. TechnicalPossess a good understanding of security architectures and topologies and the techniques needed to support security infrastructure solutions in enterprise environments.Possess a good understanding and detailed knowledge of security tool sets with the techniques needed to support security infrastructure solutions in enterprise environments.Have a good awareness and be able to work within information security and confidentiality legislation.Possess an excellent understanding of ITIL, including service operation and service transition.Possess a good understanding of the technical elements of PCI-DSS and the ISO27001 standard.Experienced in understanding, configuring and tuning SIEM products through the use of correlation rules and analytics.A good working knowledge of supporting and troubleshooting current technologies in some of the following areas:Network securityFirewall securityIntrusion Detection/Prevention toolsSIEM solutionsAnti-Virus solutionsVulnerability assessment and management toolsWeb Content filtering solutionsEmail Gateway solutionsCloud based solutions

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