Walkers Global
Senior Security Engineer - 6 month FTC
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Overview
We are a leading international law firm for global corporations, financial institutions, capital market participants, and investment fund managers. With a global presence spanning the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia, we advise on the laws of Bermuda, the British Virgin Islands, the Cayman Islands, Guernsey, Ireland, and Jersey.
We treat everyone as the intelligent professional they are. Our approach is to trust and empower our people to deliver consistently, and enable them to succeed. Diversity is our secret weapon – it’s the sheer breadth of Walkers people that makes us who we are – gathered from across the globe and fluent in languages, jurisdictions, and cultures that help us to mirror our clients and keep our own thinking in tune with the world in which we operate.
Overview of Role
Office: London (hybrid required - 40% in the office)
Duration: 6 month FTC (please note this is a FTC and NOT a day-rate contract)
Overview of Team
The Information Security Team is a central support unit responsible for providing a complete security service to the Walkers.
Role Profile
The Senior Security Engineer will report to the Information Security Operations Manager. The primary function of the role is to build and deliver security controls supporting critical Change initiatives including SIEM and PKI/BYOK integrations, Defender for Cloud, and Purview configuration. This is a hands-on engineering role suited to someone with strong Microsoft, Azure, cloud, and enterprise security experience who can design, configure, and improve security solutions across a complex environment. While the candidate should be familiar with security monitoring and incident handling, this role is not suited to someone whose experience is limited to those areas.
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The successful candidate will be able to understand complex environments quickly, take ownership of technical delivery (often leading a small team), work effectively with IT; development, and business teams, and communicate technical risks and recommendations clearly. The role includes participation in incident, change, and problem management, with some out-of-hours work required for planned change, maintenance, or urgent security response.
Education, Skills & Experience
Must Have
- Extensive hands-on cyber security engineering experience across IT security, network security, systems engineering, or comparable enterprise environments.
- Strong Microsoft, Azure, Microsoft 365, cloud security, network architecture, and hybrid environment security knowledge.
- Proven ability to design, configure, implement, and improve security technologies, controls, tooling, and processes.
- Experience with SIEM technologies, security monitoring, incident response, vulnerability management, patch compliance, server security, and endpoint security.
- Ability to work independently, take ownership of technical deliverables, and collaborate effectively with IT, Development, and wider business teams.
- Clear communication, documentation, and presentation skills, with the ability to explain technical risks and recommendations to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Proficiency with Windows, Linux, command-line tools, and scripting languages such as PowerShell or Python.
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Desirable
- Experience gained within a legal, financial services, or similarly regulated organization.
- Awareness of security frameworks and best practice including NCSC guidance, OWASP, NIST CSF, CIS Controls, ISO 27001, ISMS principles, and GDPR.
- Experience with automation, security testing, forensic investigation activities, DLP monitoring, privileged access, key management, or HSM infrastructure.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Security, or a related field, equivalent practical experience, or relevant security certification such as SANS, CISSP, ISACA, CEH, or OSCP.
Please be advised this role requires you to be in the office 2 days a week.
Equal Opportunity Employer
Walkers global is an equal opportunity employer. Equality and diversity are key to our global identity and an integral part of our goal to continue being an employer of choice. We are committed to a work environment that supports all individuals irrespective of gender, ethnicity, nationality, race, religion, marital status, age, disability, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, or any other applicable legally protected characteristics. We make every effort to ensure that employment opportunities are open and accessible to all purely on the basis of personal ability.
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