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Manchester, Greater Manchester
Security Engineer Architect / Consultant
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Security Engineer (Architect / Consultant) Manchester / 2-3 days remote working 6 months Happy to discuss day rate Role Summary: There is now an opportunity to be involved with the secure deployment of cutting edge banking Cyber technologies. Main Responsibilities and Key Deliverables: Provide the following capabilities as required by the project or determined by the work load alignment: Security Architecture and Solution Architecture Security Engineering and Design Security Consultancy o Participate within each project as a primary resource ensuring commitment to attend all appropriate calls and meetings as agreed with the project manager. o Accept ownership for technical related deliverables as defined by the project scope. Agree these deliverables with the aligned Senior Security Engineer for the portfolio to ensure strategic and risk reduction adherence. Work with the project manager and business analyst to ensure any critical success factors or business objectives are reasonable and can be met. o Manage requirements from stakeholders within each project and collaborate with the Senior Security Engineer portfolio lead on challenges that need wider business discussion or escalation to the Lead Security Engineers. o Analyse security risk within each design as appropriate to the scope and ensure that all interested stakeholders are informed or consulted where necessary. o Design and implement security controls using a combination of Enterprise Architecture Patterns, Security Standards and bespoke deliverables. o Work closely with vendors, platform teams and SME's where necessary in order to agree architectural decisions, design statements and exceptions. Where necessary support the project in obtaining waivers related to security design decisions taken. o Take the lead on security architecture decisions and issues where the problem scenario is not covered by a pattern or standard. Seek guidance from domain architects or domain engineers where appropriate. o Collaborating with alternative technical resources with the goal of supporting projects in the production of design documentation e.g. TSD's or security documentation where necessary. o Ensuring that the drivers of Cost, Pace and Quality are maintained during production of or contribution to design artefacts. Technical skillset: The candidate should have experience and knowledge of a broad range of IT security principles and associated technologies. The candidate should be able to clearly demonstrate their understanding of each skill area and evidence previous work programmes where they have been a significant part of their secure implementation. The candidate should have significant knowledge of Cyber Security as it applies to Enterprise business and ideally exposure to risk or threat assessment techniques. The candidate should have technical experience and demonstrable skill in one or more of the following areas: Cryptographic knowledge including encryption, key exchange, certificate handling and protocols (x509, PKCS12 etc) Security Control Frameworks e.g. ISO27001 and practical experience in their implementation Security Architecture principles, generic best practices Network security devices including NGFW, UTM or NIPS/NIDS Endpoint defence solutions including NGAV or EDR. Exposure to malware infection vectors and defence methods Endpoint and Server hardening principles, best practices Web application firewalls, network load balancers, proxy systems Network, Endpoint and Application logging concepts, best practice and monitoring systems including SIEM Authentication, Authorisation and Accounting concepts, best practice and IAM management systems. OTP and MFA systems. Active Directory Security including federated solutions using ADFS, SAML etc Experience of designing cloud security models including public, private and hybrid concepts Application security including web applications, SaaS services etc Data handling principles, protective marking/tagging and data security knowledge Candidates will ideally show evidence of the above in their CV in order to be considered. Please be advised if you haven't heard from us within 48 hours then unfortunately your application has not been successful on this occasion, we may however keep your details on file for any suitable future vacancies and contact you accordingly. Pontoon is an employment consultancy and operates as an equal opportunities employer.