Role: Security Engineer Location: Manchester – 2 days a week from the office
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The Cyber and Information Security Team play a critical role in supporting our internal business functions alongside our external customer commitments.
NCC Group’s internal security team work to develop, introduce and maintain administrative, technical and physical security controls to continually improve the Group’s security.
The Security Engineer is primarily responsible for implementing, monitoring and maintaining security tools, technologies and configurations to ensure the confidentiality, integrity and availability of Group information systems and assets.
This role presents an excellent opportunity to support this area and will help the Security Engineering Team in managing cyber risks and meeting its business requirements.
Occasional travel to NCC Group’s other office locations globally may be required.
Assisting the Group in constantly striving to improve its cyber security posture, seeking out and exploiting opportunities for improvement.
Assisting with and providing technical subject matter expertise into the design of security solutions, working in conjunction with IT Operations and Architecture colleagues.
Implementing, supporting and maintaining security solutions (e.g. Defender for Endpoint, privileged access management systems, access policies, application management, etc.).
Sharing security engineering expertise across the Group globally, championing implementation of best practise.
Taking part in the investigation of security alerts and incidents, in conjunction with the Security Operations Centre and Digital Forensics colleagues.
Taking part in the investigation, development and adoption of cyber and information security technology, process, policy and best practice.
Working on BAU and Project tasks assigned to the Security Engineering Team.
Working closely with the Security Program Team where required.
Previous experience within an IT Security role or similar function is essential.
Knowledge and experience of hybrid cloud environments with a particular emphasis on EntraID/M365
Microsoft EntraID/Azure
Microsoft Defender 365 (including Microsoft Defender XDR)
Microsoft Sentinel
Microsoft Active Directory
Microsoft Intune
Security Frameworks (NIST, CIS etc.)
AWS
Security Incident Response
Endpoint Security (including mobile devices, Windows and Linux)
Excellent communication skills and the ability to explain security concepts to management and other stakeholders both technical and non-technical, who may not have a security background.
Ability to take direction and work autonomously on both Project and BAU work
Ability to work proactively in identifying security issues then working to define and implement appropriate mitigations
Any Security related certifications may be advantageous – Security+, Microsoft SC900, AZ900
We are passionate about helping our customers to protect their brand, value and reputation against the ever-evolving threat landscape. Our values and code of ethics are at the heart of how we operate – we work together, we are brilliantly creative and we embrace difference. We want to create an environment where all colleagues feel psychologically, emotionally and physically safe to be authentic, sharing their personal experiences to represent the diversity of the world they live in, and have equal opportunity to achieve their best.
If you don’t hear back from us within 10 days, please don’t be too disappointed – we may keep your CV on our database for any future vacancies and we would encourage you to keep an eye on our career opportunities as there may be other suitable roles.
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