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Security Operations Engineer

Context Recruitment Limited
Posted 13 hours ago, valid for 5 days
Location

London, Greater London EC1R 0WX

Salary

£80,000 - £96,000 per annum

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Contract type

Full Time

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  • The job is for an IT Security Operations Engineer based in London, with an initial contract term of 3 months inside IR35.
  • The position requires prior experience in the security industry, ideally within a complex or multisite environment.
  • The salary for this role ranges from £550 to £600 per day, depending on experience.
  • Key responsibilities include monitoring security solutions, conducting vulnerability scanning, and ensuring compliance with security regulations.
  • Candidates should hold industry-recognized certifications and possess excellent analytical and networking skills.

IT Security Operations Engineer - London

Inside IR35 - 3 month initial term

Experienced SecOps Engineer sought by a well-known, public-facing organisation with numerous sites spread across the county. The business is involved in significant, complex and critical logistical operations, providing services to hundreds-of-thousands.

As a public-facing, Critical National Infrastructure business the SecOps Engineer will be a crucial component in ensuring the effective management of both the technical cyber security environment and wider information security management piece for the business.

This role carries responsibility for ensuring collaboration between Information Security and the IT Ops team, you'll ensure the implementation of technical security controls supporting risk mitigation and contributing to the continual improvement of the business's security composure.

Responsibilities:

* Provide expertise on application, network and infrastructure security

* Monitor security solutions including SIEM (Rapid 7), threat detection and data security, endpoint protection, network analytics for alerts

* Provide documentation for technical standards to meet corporate security policies/industry best practice

* Perform security reviews, identify gaps in security architecture and apply appropriate remediation

* Ensure appropriate technical measures are in place to comply with regulations/legislations

* Conduct vulnerability scanning, analysis and remediation

* Patch management

* Identify root cause of security issues and design appropriate solutions

Required Experience:

* Prior experience working within the security industry, ideally within a complex / multisite environment

* Excellent analytical skills

* Experience of working with SIEM tools, ideally Rapid 7

* Exposure to email security tools (Sophos, O365 etc)

* Excellent patch management skills (Intune SCCM, MECM Endpoint Manager and WSUS)

* Experience with vulnerability scanning and management (Insight VM)

* Experience with Endpoint Security (Sophos)

* Exposure to Cloud technologies (AWS, Azure etc.)

* Excellent networking skills (TCP/IP, SMB, DNS, DHCP etc)

* Hold industry recognised certifications/degree (S+, ITIL etc.)

Location; Central London with occasional travel a requirement

Rate; £550 - £600 p/d DoE, inside IR35

Duration; 3 month initial contract (highly likely to extend)

CTC Clearance will be required

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