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Security Operations Specialist
Date: Dec 7, 2019
Location: London, United Kingdom
Company: KPMG UK
The Team
Technology & Engineering
is a division of KPMG UK that develops and delivers innovative, technology-enabled solutions to solve clients’ complex business problems.
The Role
Our Security team is divided into three sub teams which work closely together to ensure we continue to protect our clients and assets. The sub-teams are Security Architecture, Security Operations and InfoSec mgmt. In the Security Architecture team, we are tasked with ensuring these solutions are built safe and sound. In the Security Operations team, we are tasked with keeping these solutions safe and sound on a day to day basis. The InfoSec management team is tasked with ensuring we identify and manage InfoSec risks, perform InfoSec control checks, act as subject matter experts on KPMG InfoSec Policy/ISO27001/GDPR, and develop the InfoSec culture.
And that’s why we are seeking a passionate and adaptive InfoSec/Cyber operations specialist to join our awesome Security Operations team and help with monitoring and developing the day to day security of the IT environments where KPMG store data.
The Person
The person we’re looking for will have experience with developing the security posture of cloud environments; preventing, detecting and responding to security events; provide guidance to junior team members and stand-in for the team lead where required.
What we are looking for from you
• You will have a passion for security and experience in monitoring security controls – covering activities such as access reviews, vulnerability management, security quality checks and incident response.
• You will have an eye for continual improvement by optimising security tooling – including anti-virus, patching, vulnerability management, network security and logging & auditing.
• You will be calm and collected during incident response – containing, investigating, communicating, supporting recovery and driving lessons learned.
• You will have experience reviewing changes to systems from an information security perspective and providing pragmatic, risk based guidance.
• You will have worked in a fast paced, customer service environment, delivering high quality information security services.
• You will assist management in providing and enhancing security metrics to report on the information security posture.
• You will help create and review documentation.
• Willingness to be added to an on-call incident rota in the future.
What you’ll have done before
• You will have worked f in a Security Operations role.
Or
• You will have worked for at least 4 years’ experience in a technology role that incorporates security; preferably infrastructure or service desk orientated.
• You’ll have used a variety of security tooling, especially in the Cloud.
• You’ll have had experience and understanding of Public or Private Cloud technologies, examples being AWS, Azure and VMware NSX.
• You’ll have spent time learning to gain Information Security certifications, especially with a cloud-focus.
• You’ll have had some customer service experience.
Certs you’ll ideally have (although we are open to having a discussion with people who don’t have the certifications yet!)
• SSCP, CCSP, CISMP
• Cloud (e.g. AWS or Azure)
• IT Management (e.g. ITIL or similar)
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Operations Manager, Network Security, Service Desk, Operations, Security, Customer Service
