Job Details: Senior Cyber Security Engineer
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Vacancy Name: Senior Cyber Security Engineer
Vacancy No: VN485
Employment Type: Permanent
Location of role: Oxford, UK
Department: Information Technology
Key Responsibilities:
As part of the IT Infrastructure Team, the Senior Security Engineer's primary role is to ensure our security technologies run smoothly and to develop secure, reliable systems that follow the IT Director's guidance and meet the Chief Information Officer's goals.
This position entails managing and supervising our external SOC, handling external interactions and compliance obligations. You will create cyber defence solutions and automate processes to defend against sophisticated cyber threats. Furthermore, you will develop and incorporate automation into our SOAR and security products to support our intrusion detection systems, conduct vulnerability and risk assessments, and integrate log collection into our SIEM.
You will oversee the implementation of our advanced security framework and management systems in a Hybrid environment, covering virtualised and containerised IT systems. Your main goal will be to integrate systems and processes to meet compliance and business needs while ensuring excellent user experiences within a controlled setting.
You’ll leverage your technical skills to maintain and enhance infrastructure security operations, ensuring seamless support to the business environment. This role involves identifying opportunities for improvement to further streamline and modernise our operations. As a Senior Engineer, you will be expected to use your skill set across various domains within IT and perform 3rd line duties within our environment catering to our internal or external requirements.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:
1. Cyber Security and Infrastructure Architecture: Assisting in design and architecture of our IT infrastructure and Cyber Security solutions, ensuring they meet business requirements, scalability needs, industry, and security standards.
2. Implementation and Deployment: Overseeing the implementation and deployment of our Cyber Security technical programs and assist with infrastructure projects, including HCI, IaaS, (servers, networks, storage), virtualisation and Cloud technologies.
3. Systems Administration: Perform security assessments using our scanning tools to detect vulnerabilities in existing systems and address them accordingly. This may involve package deployment or fix publishing. Managing and maintaining operating systems, containers and middleware applications as required to ensure optimal compliance, performance, availability, and security.
4. Network Management: Knowledge of NAC security, SD-WAN, switching, and configuring and maintaining network devices, such as routers, switches, firewalls to ensure reliable and secure network connectivity.
5. Security Management: Implement and manage our security measures to protect IT infrastructure and our employees against unauthorised access, cyber threats, and data breaches aligning to our security practices and frameworks.
6. Monitoring and Performance Tuning: Implement monitoring tools and processes to proactively monitor our risk profile, our cyber health, update performance, and attack paths within our environment. Performing performance tuning, automation through our SIEM/SOAR to optimise our IT systems. Determine operating costs, productivity levels, and any upgrade requirements.
7. Documentation and Compliance: Developing or amend our security policies and protocols to ensure we maintain a robust security stance. Creating and maintaining our technical documentation, including system configurations, network diagrams, and operational procedures. Ensuring infrastructure or security components comply with relevant industry standards and regulations. Provide cyber security posture reports and our cyber compliance reporting requirements.
8. Troubleshooting and Incident Response: Investigating and resolving complex cyber alerts, technical issues and incidents related to our environment. Participating in on-call rotations as required providing timely response to critical incidents.
9. Other: Help ensure Immunocore adheres to robust and efficient Change Management processes for the environment, contributing to improving these where necessary. Collaborate with the IT Service Desk Manager and team on technical tasks. Provide guidance to junior engineers when necessary, fostering their growth. Be ready to assist with resolving tickets during high volumes or overwhelming demand, demonstrating a team-oriented approach. Assist with vision and leadership for developing and implementing information technology initiatives to develop and manage our application portfolios, to plan, organise, and manage our IT transformation. Assist in the development of business case justifications and cost/benefit analyses for IT spending and initiatives.
PERSON SPECIFICATION:
Experience & Knowledge:
Essential:
IT security acumen, transformational expertise, superior analytical and problem-solving abilities with an attention to detail. Senior IT professional coming from 10+ years’ experience. Manage and set priorities for the design, maintenance, development, and evaluation of security infrastructure systems, including NAC, SOAR, SEIM, Cloud, SD-WAN, Spam platforms, Security tools, Wireless, Endpoint Protection, SIG, Hyperconverged implementations, and so on. Conduct feasibility studies for various upgrade projects, improvements, and other conversions. Establish and maintain regular communications with our executives, decision-makers, stakeholders, and employees regarding pertinent IT activities.
Desirable:
Experience working in Life Sciences or a Pharmaceutical company and the necessary regulations. Experience with cloud-based security architecture. Some exposure to a range of software development tools and methodologies. Demonstrated expertise assisting in the development and execution of an enterprise-wide disaster recovery and business continuity plan, cyber security plan, breach workshops, and relevant IT strategic plans.
KEY BEHAVIOURAL ATTRIBUTES:
* Openness and honesty
* Taking responsibility
* Flexibility
* Team spirit
SPECIFIC BEHAVIOURAL ATTRIBUTES:
Analytical Thinking - Tackling problems by using a logical and sequential approach, identifying discrepancies & inconsistencies. Results Orientated - Setting challenging but obtainable goals, ensuring efforts are focused on meeting or exceeding these, and that they are shared clearly and used to measure success. Building collaborative relationships - Developing, maintaining, and strengthening partnerships with others who can provide information, assistance, and support. Comfortable working in cross-disciplinary teams. Ability to handle multiple simultaneous tasks, with associated deadlines. Ability to develop new technical skills. Calmness and clarity of thought while under pressure.
Education & Qualifications:
Essential:
Certification/s in relevant IT disciplines. Level 3 experience in a similar position.
Desirable:
Tertiary qualifications in Information Technology as a core component.
Work Conditions:
In line with the business requirements and SLAs put in place, or during unplanned events, the role holder may be required to work irregular hours or out of hours. The role may be required to travel locally, nationally, and occasionally internationally on an irregular basis. Sitting for extended periods of time. Dexterity of hands and fingers to operate a computer keyboard, mouse, power tools, and to handle other computer components. Occasional inspection of cables in floors and ceilings. Ability to assist in lifting and transporting of moderately heavy objects, such as servers.
About the Company:
Immunocore (NASDAQ: IMCR) is a pioneering, commercial-stage T cell receptor biotechnology company whose purpose is to develop and commercialize a new generation of transformative medicines which address unmet patient needs in oncology, infectious diseases and autoimmune disease. Our leaders in R&D are internationally recognised as some of the biotech industry’s most successful drug developers. We are creating not just an environment where great minds can interact but an innovation powerhouse answering the big questions.
Focused on delivering first-in-class biological therapies to patients, we have developed a highly innovative soluble TCR platform. Our ImmTAX molecules underpin a new generation of precision engineered drugs that harness the immune system to treat a broad spectrum of diseases with high unmet medical need, including oncology, infectious diseases and autoimmune diseases.
At Immunocore, we recognize that our employees are our greatest asset. We value the unique contributions each person brings to our team. By embracing Science, Trust, Respect, Integrity, Diversity, and Entrepreneurship (STRIDE), we create an environment where collaboration thrives, ideas flourish, and transformative changes happen. STRIDE represents more than just letters; it embodies our shared identity and drives our mission. We are dedicated to developing breakthrough therapies that transform patients’ lives, advancing medicine, and supporting one another in these pursuits.
Immunocore is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. As such, we are committed to fostering an inclusive workplace where everyone feels valued, respected, and empowered. We encourage applications from individuals of all backgrounds, regardless of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, age, national origin, disability status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
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