Cyber Security Engineer

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Post Office Ltd  London, England, United Kingdom (Hybrid)

Salary: Competitive

Contract Type: Permanent

Location: Finsbury Dials

Division: Information Technology

Purpose of the Role

As a Cyber Security Engineer, you will have the opportunity to join our ever-expanding security team working with the latest tools and cloud environments.

Principal Accountabilities

As a Cyber Security Engineer, you will be responsible for the engineering code configuration of multiple systems, including but not limited to:

Office365 Cyber Threat and Management capabilities, including digital policy configuration, DLP, AIP, Intune and other MS security event mechanisms.

SIEM use case development, testing and false-positive tuning for Splunk Cloud as primary with additional future initiatives in cloud SIEMS for Microsoft (Sentinel) and AWS Security Hub.

Additional tools are but not limited to;

Mimecast

Symantec Endpoint Protection

ServiceNow

Coordination and prioritisation of efforts will be at the discretion of the Cyber Engineering Lead. This role also includes a close working alignment with SOC Analysts to ensure effective monitoring is delivered.

Qualifications /Experience

Splunk Cloud Certified Admin or comparable level of knowledge

SC-200 or comparable level of knowledge

Understanding and being able articulate emerging threats and incidents to different audiences, including technical, operations management, senior management and executives.

Using industry leading technology to create detections to threats to our networks from external and internal threat actors.

Overseeing the day to day maintenance of Security tooling

Working with senior stakeholders to support a threat led approach to generate mitigation and countermeasures through SIEM use case

Working with third-party suppliers and vendors

Taking part in post-incident reviews and proposing engineering resolutions to improve results in any future recurrence

Excellent team player but also confident working on own initiative.

Strong communication skills (both written and oral) and interpersonal skills at all levels

An understanding of network infrastructure such as VPNs, firewalls, switches, routers, LANs, Intrusion Detection, vulnerability scanning etc.

A good understanding of cyber security concepts and systems/solutions such as IDM, EDR, DLP, SIEM, SSO etc.

Understanding of the Cyber Kill Chain and MITRE ATT&CK

Worked with EDR systems such as Defender or Symantec.

Commissioning Splunk infrastructure such as heavy and universal forwarders

The creation and maintenance of Splunk apps, dashboards, panels and data models

The creation of indexes within Splunk

Data parsing within Splunk

Configuring and setting up data connectors within Sentinel

The creation and maintenance of Log Analytic Workspaces

Deep knowledge of KQL

About the Post Office.

The Post Office has thrived at the heart of high streets and local communities across the UK for over 370 years. As one of the country's most trusted brands, we take our commitment to providing essential services to customers across the UK very seriously. We're the UK's largest retail network, as well as the largest financial services provider in the UK, with over 11,600 branches nationwide - more than all of the UK's banks and building societies put together.

We know that the best way to provide a great service for customers is to evolve our business and adapt to their changing needs. That's why we have a range of over 170 products and services, from personal financial services like banking, insurance, payments and travel money, to telecoms and, of course, mails. And we're improving our online and in store experience for customers. We know that our customers never stop changing, so neither will we.

Securing the future Post Office's future:

We are working hard to ensure that the next chapter of the Post Office's history is a bright one. We are the current guardians of an iconic business and we want to hand over a thriving network of branches which can continue to provide essential products and services for our customers for many years to come. This is a uniquely exciting and challenging time for the Post Office - we're shaping the future and creating a business we can all be proud of.

Working at the Post Office:

Post Office colleagues are the driving force behind our business. Whether they are in our branches or supporting from our offices, we are proud of the energy, commitment and customer focus our people all have in common.

All Post Office people are guided by our three values and behaviours:

We care by always thinking customer

We strive to make things ever better through honest challenge

We commit to decisive deliver

The Post Office embraces diversity and inclusion in the workplace and actively promote working without discrimination. We are also a Disability Confident Employer and are committed to interviewing disabled people who meet our minimum criteria for the job.