Cyber Security Engineer

Cyber Security Engineer

Certain Advantage is recruiting for a Cyber Security Engineer to join a leading organisation on an initial 2-year contract based in Stevenage.

This is a full-time onsite role, requiring attendance at the Stevenage site five days a week.

Your responsibilities:

Accountable for the effective mapping and topology of SOC toolsets including integrations and feeds between solutions

Enriching the visibility and optimisation of SOC tools through data modelling and tuning

Maintain the primary SOC toolsets, ensuring their availability, functionality and optimisation

Responsible for the daily muster and availability of all cyber security technologies within in-scope environments

Responsible for the accurate tracking of product lifecycle and advising management of EOL/EOS roadmaps

Support the Cyber Security Capability Manager in the coordination, planning and execution of SOC appliance upgrades

To support all cyber security pillars with new capability implementation and integration to existing solutions

Implement cyber security tool changes and configuration ensuring efficient reporting into CAB and control boards

To lead on playbook scripting activities ensuring they are well documented and tested. This includes fault finding and review of false positives

To be the Subject Matter Expert (SME) on SOC connectivity and visibility across all in scope networks and infrastructure, ensuring connections and integrations are understood and documented with the Cyber Security Capability Manager

The individual:

Strong coding and scripting background – PowerShell, Python & Regex

Proven ability to work with APIs, including HTTP/S headers and responses, JSON Objects.

Proven experience with Proxies administration and changes.

Windows (SMB) and *Nix (NFS) remote storage.

IIS (Windows Web Server) Configuration, Active Directory/ LDAP (authentication).

Experience with applying certificates, software updates and the steps involved for end-of-life refresh activity.

Experience with VMware/ Hyper-V Virtual machines and virtual switches.

Experience in setting up, implementing and maintenance of cyber security tooling.

Experience with the creation, testing and maintenance of AI or machine le...