Cyber Security Research Lead

Cyber Security Research Lead

Venn Group is working with a large university who are looking for a Cyber Security Research Lead to act as the primary interface between the security team and the infrastructure team.

Salary: £50,000 - £55,000

Location: Fully remote with the occasional need to go on site

Job duties:

• Develop and lead security incident response for all Research infrastructure platforms
• Develop and lead security incident response for researcher managed platforms
• Collaborate with Research engineers to operate and improve security controls and tooling for Research infrastructure
• Understand the environment and the information risks that research systems and activities are subject to
• Identifying new opportunities for security improvements
• Develops and improves cyber security services offerings specific to research
• Vulnerability Assessment & Management
• Assesses the significance of security advice from the NCSC, JISC CSIRT
• Aids and assists the Cyber Security SOC as necessary with investigations into IT security and operational incidents

The successful candidate will:

• Expert contemporary knowledge and hands on experience with a broad range of security technologies such as (but not limited to) firewalls, IPS/IDS, Protective Monitoring, (SIEM/SOAR) Vulnerability scanning, Endpoint protections
• Experience with some or all of the following technologies; ELK, Openstack, Azure, AWS, Ubuntu, CentOS and GitLab
• Demonstrable experience working with Linux based systems and utilities (e.g. tcpdump, iptables, strace)
• Demonstrable experience working with open-source virtualisation technologies (e.g. OpenStack, KVM, ProxMox VE)
• Experience working web technologies (e.g. Apache, NGINX, LAMP, JS)
• Strong understanding of TCP/IP networking fundamentals
• Previous Higher Education sector experience is highly desirable

To apply for this role or to find out please contact George Maguire on 0207 557 7667 or gmaguire@venngroup.com

Venn Group is an equal opportunities employment business and employment agency and welcomes applications from all candidates.