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.