Information Security Technical Lead

Salary: £84,000 – £94,800 per year

Information Security Technical Lead – REMOTE ROLE – UK wide

Information Security Technical Lead / Cyber Security Advisor – Remote role but 1 day per month is required in Canary Wharf – £84,000 – £94,800 plus 13% bonus and yearly salary review to 10% (£79,000 package plus pay review) plus great benefits, discretionary bonus etc.

Global client with a 18Billion turnover has a great opportunity for an Information Security Technical Lead / Cyber Security Advisor to work closely with the Information Security leadership team to develop strategies and plans to enforce security requirements, research, design, propose and lead the implementation of information and cyber security controls and technologies and define security policies, processes and standards, ensuring alignment with global policies as well as their European subsidiary.

As an Information Security Technical Lead / Cyber Security Advisor your primary duties and responsibilities are to research and evaluate new threats and advises on any necessary communication or extra controls to counter these and lead RFP processes for tool identification, selection, including developing business cases for security investments whist working with the Project Manager to plan and run PoC’s associated with new controls and technologies. You will also work with different business units, the global security team as well as different security teams from other regions to identify security requirements using methods that may include risk and business impact assessments and business system analysis.

You will act as an escalation point and technical lead when troubleshooting the output of monitoring activities carried out by the Security Team, these findings need to be monitored and an action plan must be prepared to follow up on the findings, you may then be required to plan follow up actions which will be carried out by the team. You will work closely with the regional Infrastructure Group, IT Support departments and Information Security team to identify, select and implement technical controls providing guidance in the coordination and completion of Information Security operations documentation, collaborate on IT projects to ensure that security issues are addressed throughout the project life cycle and work with the team to performs control and vulnerability assessments to identify control weaknesses and assess the effectiveness of existing controls and recommends remedial action

As the Information Security Technical Lead you are required so show demonstrable knowledge and appreciation of the current IT threats and security measures available, this require a combination of good business awareness and technical IT knowledge or Degree level qualification and have a minimum of 4 years experience of combined IT and security work experience with a broad range of exposure to systems analysis, application development, database design and administration. You will have experience in developing, documenting and maintaining security policies, processes, procedures and standards, ideally have knowledge of network infrastructure (routers, switches, firewalls, protocols and concepts) and have knowledge of and experience in developing and documenting security polices, including strategic, tactical and project plans with an understanding of information risk concepts and principles.

You will have some of the appropriate technical certifications such as CESG Certified Professional (CCP), CompTIA Security+ Certification, ISC2 Systems Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), ISACA Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) or Cisco and ideally have experience with Information Security management frameworks, such as ISO2700x, ITIL, COBIT or NIST or Cyber Security accreditations.

This is a superb career progression opportunity with an amazing organisation that offers a basic salary of upto £84,000 – £94,800plus bonus upto 13%, Salary review April to 10% and remote (will be required to Canary Wharf a minimum of 1 day per year and great benefits package as below

Pension Plan – Company will contribute 7% of annual basic salary (up to a maximum of 10% based on employee contributions) to employee’s pension scheme.

Permanent Health Insurance / Company’s Employee Assistance Programme /Interest free annual travel season ticket loan (upon satisfactory completion of probationary period) / Gym Membership / Medical cover / Membership of Health Cash Plan /Bonus Scheme – Upto 13% of basic salary

This role is commutable from Home counties, London, Kent, Hertfordshire, Essex, Cambridgeshire, Lincolnshire, Berkshire, Sussex, Hampshire, Oxfordshire

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