Experis UK
Cyber Security Specialist
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This position will be four days on-site from the client's London office each week.
Job Summary
The Cyber Security Specialist will be the technical lead, providing end-to-end solutions and maintaining the Network and Security life cycle ensuring operational efficiency. Your responsibility is safeguarding networks and systems. You will plan and implement security measures to protect all systems from cyber-attacks, hacking attacks, intrusion, infiltration, and natural disasters.
The position will focus on Network maintenance and Security prevention with occasional support work assisting the support and infrastructure teams as and when required.
You will develop and maintain the incident response plan, cyber essentials and ISO27001 and follow the NIST framework. You will also work with the infrastructure team on a written DR plan and BC plan.
Principal Duties/Responsibilities
- Design and implement short- and long-term strategic plans to ensure IT network and security infrastructure capacity meets existing and future requirements.
- Provide BAU Infrastructure support and assist the support desk duties when requested by the IT Team Leader.
- Infrastructure administration and project management using existing tools.
- Work closely with and monitor logs generated from SIEM & Sophos MTR. Perform threat hunts with the tools available to you as and when a security related incident occurs.
- Identifying, monitoring, and defining the requirements of the overall security of all systems.
- Maintain high patching status on all systems.
- Configuring, maintaining and implementing intrusion detection systems and firewalls, virtual private networks, web protocols, and email security.
- Perform continuous Pen Tests and follow up remediating vulnerabilities.
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Principal Duties/Responsibilities
- Create and update all relevant Jira tickets being worked on regularly.
- Maintain system uptime and availability as close to 99.99%.
- Configuring and installing security infrastructure devices.
- Investigating intrusion and hacking incidents, collecting incident responses, and carrying out forensic investigations.
- Determining latest technologies and processes that improve the overall security of the system by keeping up to date with the latest security and technology developments.
- Plan for disaster recovery and create contingency plans in the event of any security breaches.
- Be able to react fast to security incidents as they happen. Apply mitigation and work-arounds as a priority to protect systems after a breach has been detected.
- Monitor for attacks, intrusions and unusual, unauthorized or illegal activity. Stay up to date on cyber news.
- Defining and maintaining security policies.
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Essential Knowledge & Experience:
- Zscaler Internet Access
- Zscaler Private Access
- Splunk
- Data Centre colocation management
- Vendor/Carrier management
- Cisco CCNCisco CCNA & CCNPA & CCNP qualifications
- IT Security Security - Prevention and awareness
- PowerShell and scripting capabilities
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