IT Senior Infrastructure Engineer

Salary: £48,000 – £60,000 per year

The Role

To make a leading contribution to the development and maintenance to a cyber security posture and technical infrastructure. To take ownership of various projects with a focus on information security. To assist the wider team providing technical expertise, carrying out maintenance and support as required.

Duties and responsibilities

• Managing remediation of vulnerabilities.

• Monitor and develop logging to manage internal and external threat monitoring.

• Keeping up to date on IT security trends and keeping the team informed.

• Making recommendations on new cyber security technology and leading on its implementation if adopted.

• Develop learning materials for wider staff engagement around cyber security.

• Reviewing and maintaining IT security documentation and controls.

• Helping to complete IT security questionnaires from clients and prospects.

• Carrying out IT security supplier due diligence.

Support and maintenance

• Undertake investigations into problems escalated from the IT Service Desk. Take ownership of issues to identify and implement appropriate technical solutions.

• Provide cover to IT support as required.

• Undertake maintenance/patching.

Person Specification

Essential

Experience

• Experience in working in an IT environment as part of a team.

• Experience of working within a cyber security team or working on cyber security for a significant part of your role

Main skills and abilities

• A personal commitment to quality and continuous learning.

• Able to adapt to current priorities in a varying role – flexible attitude to workflow patterns.

• Organisation and coordination skills and experience.

• Communication and customer service skills and experience.

• Able to work under pressure/difficult circumstances.

• Excellent communication skills, able to clearly articulate highly technical details and to summarise to non-technical stakeholders.

Essential knowledge and qualification

• Management of SIEM systems

• Management of vulnerability management tools

• Support and administration of Microsoft Server (2016+)

• Support and administration of Microsoft Office 365

• Support and administration of Microsoft Azure

Desirable

• Knowledge of ISO27001, Cyber Essentials

• Knowledge of cloud security principles

• Knowledge of ITIL principles and certifications

• Knowledge and experience of working with linux environments

• Educated to degree level

• Project management experience

Location

Can be based in Leeds or Basingstoke – with remote working

Salary

Depending on experience £40k – £50k