Cloud Network Security Engineer

Salary: £66,000 per year

Here at Fedcap Employment our vision and mission are to advance the social and economic wellbeing of disadvantaged people within our communities and over the next five years we aim to be the fastest growing UK employability business.

We are currently recruiting for a Cloud Network Security Engineer on a permanent contract – the role locations can be based in Scotland, South East or the North of East England.

Offering a competitive salary of up to £66,000 plus car allowance.

The Role

As a Network Security Engineer you will be accountable for the Cloud infrastructure Security in an environment which needs to be secure from the ground up. Everything needs to be built with built-in security checks, least privilege model and you will be integral to drive this effort.

Key Responsibilities

* Operational security: In an ever-evolving threat landscape, our environment must be able to withstand threats from many directions. For you, this means evaluating results from various scanning tools, liaising with our third-party providers and with the wider business to fix security vulnerabilities.

* Data Loss Prevention (DLP): Maintenance, upgrading, and configuration of software and devices that provide DLP services.

* Infrastructure Administration: Proactively maintain, monitor, and validate performance of hosted application and environment for availability, performance, responsiveness, and resource allocation.

* DevOps: Support the engineering teams with infrastructure and tools for automatically building, deploying and running applications.

* Compliance: You will be an integral part of the company’s efforts towards maintaining GDPR and HIPAA compliance, as well as maintaining ISO-27001 and SOC2 certifications.

Person Specification

Required Competencies

* Strong understanding and working experience of cloud networking fundamentals.

* Strong understanding and working experience of Virtualization technologies.

* Strong understanding and working experience of SMTP, DNS, DHCP and TCP/IP protocols.

* Strong understanding of Microsoft Cloud technologies, in particular Azure Active Directory, Azure Platform as a Service (PaaS) and Azure Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) offerings.

* Working knowledge of all phases of software development including design, coding, testing and implementation.

* Effective interpersonal skills with the ability to establish working relationships with individuals at varying levels within the organization.

* Travel is primarily local during the business day, although some out-of-the-area and overnight travel may be expected to fulfill position responsibilities.

Qualifications

* Bachelor’s (BA or BS) in business, computer science, or related field – essential

* Previous experience as a Cloud Security Engineer, or in a related field – essential

* Azure Certifications – desirable

* AWS certifications – desirable

What’s in it for you…

A rewarding career that makes a genuine social difference. Annual car allowance £4800
Hours and days of Work: 37.5 hours per week – Monday to Friday.
Holidays: 31 days’ holiday, inclusive of bank holidays in your first year of service, increasing to 35 days at 5 years and 38 days at 10 years’ service.
A two-week Induction and Training programme.
In-house Health and Wellbeing team.
Pension Scheme – contribution of 4% from Fedcap Employment.
Life Cover x 4 annual salary.
A generous sickness package inclusive of 13 weeks full sick pay 13 weeks half sick pay, following completion of a 6-month probationary period.
Enhanced Maternity and Paternity pay following completion of the probationary period.
Laptop and mobile phone to allow remote agile working.

Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion

Fedcap Employment is committed to applying equal opportunities at all stages of recruitment and selection, in line with its Equality, Diversity and Inclusion policy in addition to our duty under the Equality Act 2010 to have due regard to the need to eliminate discrimination; to advance equality of opportunity.

Fedcap Employment is a Disability Confident Leader employer and as such, any candidate with a disability will not be excluded unless the candidate is unable to perform a duty intrinsic to the role, having considered reasonable adjustments. Reasonable adjustments to the recruitment process will be made to ensure that no applicant is disadvantaged because of their disability.