Cyber Security Engineer

Cyber Security Engineer

• Contract duration: 3 months
• Location: London
• Paying inside IR35

Join our client's Information Security (‘InfoSec’) team, where you will play a crucial role in establishing and driving the security engineering capability. This position offers the opportunity to work within a dynamic environment, ensuring the security of our IT infrastructure and contributing to the overall safety of our operations.

Day-to-day of the role:

• Capture and refine information security requirements and ensure their integration into information systems through proper configuration.
• Work collaboratively with stakeholders across the organisation to embed adequate security measures.
• Perform security reviews, identify gaps in security posture, and develop security risk management plans.
• Define and document processes and procedures to secure infrastructure, hardware, and software.
• Conduct risk assessments to identify potential security vulnerabilities and threats to systems and data.
• Work with stakeholders to remediate risks and ensure the security of information systems.
• Manage risks, assumptions, issues, decisions, opportunities, constraints, and dependencies throughout problem-solving activities.
• Handle ad hoc requests from the Information Security Engineering Lead.

Required Skills & Qualifications:

• Significant experience in security engineering.
• Knowledge and understanding of Cloud security, with qualifications and/or certifications for AWS.
• Proficiency in a broad range of security controls including Secure Software Development Lifecycles, firewalls, email filtering, web applications firewalls, and more.
• Familiarity with common information security management frameworks such as NIST, ISO 27001, PCI, CIS, OWASP.
• Exceptional communication, presentation, collaboration, problem-solving, reporting, and stakeholder management skills at all levels.

Desirable:

• CISSP - Certified Information Systems Security Professional.
• Cloud security qualifications and/or certifications for GCP and Azure.
• Extensive risk management experience (CRISC, ISO27005, NIST RMF).
• Skills in network security, coding (Python, Bash, PowerShell, GitHub), and penetration testing.

Benefits:

• Engage in a high-impact, fast-paced role with significant responsibility.
• Hybrid working model - flexibility with 3 days a week in the office.

To apply for this Cyber Security Engineer position, please submit your CV and a member of the Reed Professional Services Talent Team will be in touch.