Security Operations Lead (FTSE100)
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| Job Type | Temporary / Contract |
| Location | London (Zone 1) |
| Area | London, England |
| Sector | Infrastructure Engineer |
| Salary | £70-75K |
| Start Date | ASAP - 4 weeks |
| Advertiser | Danny Whelan |
| Job Ref | 94 |
| Job Views | 47 |
- Description
- Position: Security Operations Lead (FTSE100)
Location: Central London, (zone 1)
Start date: asap
Role type: Fixed Term Contract
Duration: 6 months+
Salary: £70-75K + 15% pension + 10-15% bonus + healthcare + life assurance + 25 days holiday (pro rata)
The Client
Our FTSE100 client is an International Plc based in Central London who require a Security Operations Leadto manage a small but growing SOC team. Applicants will need to have the requisite communication skills required by a FTSE100 company.
The Role as Security Operations Lead
The role of the security operations lead is to protect systems and infrastructure from intrusion, security threats, security weaknesses and exploits. The candidate will be responsible for the management and day to day operation a suite of security tools. They will respond to alerts, triage and prioritise actions to ensure remediation plans are followed to resolution. The candidate will support technology projects to ensure security processes are followed and implemented, including the development and operation of an outsourced security operations model.
Duties include;
- - Defining security policies and best practice standards
- -Providing awareness advice and guidance on risks and threats to the business
- -Implementing appropriate controls, processes and solutions throughout the organisation
- -Monitoring alerts and events, including threat response and escalation
- -Evaluating the security posture of vendors and their products
- -Monitoring of computer networks and systems for security issues
- -Raising incident tickets as appropriate
- -Managing the incident queue to ensure ticket service level agreements are met
- -Liaising with relevant internal and external teams to progress tickets
- -Reporting on key performance indicators
- -Taking part in disaster recovery tests and incident response exercises to drive improvement
- -Supporting the project to develop an outsourced SOC Model and implement relevant security analysis tooling such as SIEM
- -Ensure the development of Technology systems aligns with our Security policies
- -Developing and manage the relationship with external managed security providers
The Security Operations LeadCandidate
The client is seeking somebody who is dynamic, engaging, has strong stakeholder management skills, is self-motivated and can work independently. In addition to excellent communication skills (written/verbal), you must be able to demonstrate the following:
- - 3+ years' experience within a large Plc/blue-chip environment in a security operations role
- - Deep technical understanding of network security (protocols), application security and cryptography
- - Experience of transforming existing IT processes to align with security industry best practice
- - Experience of operation of cloud-based and on-premises security monitoring tools
- - Experience of managing third party suppliers and ensuring they are a part of the project journey
- - Experience of BCP/DR planning and activities
- - Microsoft EMS products and solutions
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- Good understanding of or working experience of operating:
- - Cloud security (CASB)
- - Identity and access management solutions (IAM)
- - Privileged access management solutions (PAM)
- - Security Incident & Event Monitoring (SIEM)
- - SOC team experience
- - Standards experience (e.g. ISO27001, PCI DSS, COBIT)
Qualifications (Desirable to hold one or more)
- - ISC2: SSCP / CISSP
- - CompTia: Security+
- - EC-Council: ECIH
- -GIAC: GSEC/GCIH
