IT Network Security Engineer – Newcastle/Hybrid Working – Circa £60k
On behalf of our global client based in Newcastle, we are recruiting for a talented IT Security Engineer. As IT Security Engineer, you will be involved in working with security vendors to evaluate products, analyse security functionality and submit feature requests.
The IT Security Engineer will be responsible for:
- Responsible for identifying security vulnerabilities in the systems and servers.
- Build and maintain information security systems, apply security patches across servers and introduce procedures and processes based on industry best practices.
- Define requirements, based on the overall information security strategy, and implement capabilities to comply with established standards to help mitigate security risks.
- Provide responses to customer security questionnaires and internal and external auditors regarding information security capabilities and controls.
- Monitor for security incidents and participate in incident response teams to contain, investigate, and prevent future information security incidents.
- Manage all information security capabilities including threat management, vulnerability management and incident management.
The IT Security Engineer will have the following:
- Hands-on technical experience designing, implementing and supporting information security solutions in enterprise and cloud environments.
- Expert-level knowledge of security principles and technologies in the application, infrastructure, network, cloud and endpoint security.
- Solid understanding of security principles and technologies in an application, infrastructure, network, cloud, and endpoint security, the OSI model; TCP/IP stack, Python Net, bash and power shell.
- Experience working with security vendors to evaluate products, analyse security functionality and submit feature requests
- Experience with Linux, Windows and Mac OS X operating systems.
- Expert level understanding of source control tools and CI/CD tools.
- Expert level understanding of the Amazon Web Services (AWS) platform.
Benefits
- Flexible/Hybrid Working
- Health Insurance
How to Apply if you’re Interested in this Job:
If this sounds like your perfect role, click Apply without delay!
IT Security Engineer – Newcastle/Hybrid Working – Circa £60k