Cyber Security Engineer

Location: Stroud/Hybrid

Salary Details: Depending on Experience

About The Role

The role will work with our Head of Operations, Information Security Officer and Technology Director. Communicating with senior stakeholders is therefore important.

As part of a small team, you will be responsible for ensuring our technology estate is secure from cloud to desktop and everything in between. You will do this by threat identification and elimination, improving our systems by patching and improving configuration, and monitoring for threats outside of Ecotricity and responding before they become a problem.

This is a hybrid role and requires 2-3 days in the office.

What you will do…

• Leverage internal and external resources to identify threats and vulnerabilities.
• Prioritise identified threats and vulnerabilities.
• Own and collaborate with the team to mitigate known threats and vulnerabilities.
• Responsible for maintaining automated mitigation systems; Anti-virus, Patching, Email scanning.
• Proactively identify solutions to identify threats that evade security solutions currently in place.
• Contribute to the documentation and testing security incident response playbooks.
• Increase organisational awareness of security best practices.
• Act as subject matter expert for existing and future Technology services.

Specific technology exposure

• Anti-Virus, Encryption, Email, Intrusion Detection, Web Filtering, Pen testing and estate scanners.
• Microsoft 365: Defender - Security and Compliance, Azure AD, Intune.
• AWS Security Hub, including an understanding of Microservices.
• Networking and Firewall technologies (Meraki experience would be advantageous).

About You

You will be inquisitive and enthusiastic. With a healthy balance of paranoia and scepticism, you leave no stone unturned, and never accept compromises around security.

You will have a demonstrable background in cyber security and will likely have taken the time to gain qualifications or accreditations. You will know best practice both academically and from hands on experience gained over several years in the industry.

Experience

• At least 3 years previous experience in a Cyber Security based role.
• At least one professional security certification e.g. CISSP.
• Understanding of cloud security best practices and compliance frameworks.
• Knowledge of industry standard risk models such as CVSS.
• Knowledge of vulnerability attack methodologies, e.g. exploit results, attack chains.
• Experience using Vulnerability & Compliance Scanning tools.
• Experience working on an ITIL framework would be advantageous.
• Experience of web development languages such as HTML, CSS, Javascript, Web Services, REST, SOAP.

Education Requirements

This role isn’t being restricted by education. Your ability to demonstrate a high-quality skillset and that you can do the job effectively is more important, how you demonstrate that to us is up to you.

Clearance

As a person at the heart of our Cyber estate, you should be comfortable with us performing background checks and these being a condition of employment.

About Us

What's in it for you...

Healthcare plan, life assurance and generous pension contribution
Volunteering day
Hybrid working
Various company discounts (including shops, days out and events)
Holiday of 25 days (plus bank holidays) & ability to buy/sell days
Cycle to work scheme, car pooling and onsite parking available

As a valued member of the team you will be supporting the Group Environmental policy and its associated targets to make the Green Britain Group net carbon neutral by 2025

Flexibility statement

The fast moving nature of the company's business means that from time to time you may be asked to perform duties or tasks outside of your original job description on an ad hoc basis. This allows the company to use it's people in the best possible way at all times and helps the employees to make make their contribution in a changing environment.

Ecotricity is Britain's greenest energy company. When we started back in 1995, we were the first company in the world to provide a new kind of electricity- the green kind.

Our mission was, and remains, to change the way energy is made and used in Britain- by replacing fossil fuels with clean, renewable energy.

We don't just supply green energy, we use the money from our customers' bills to make it ourselves too- we build windmills and sun parks in Britain. We call this 'bills in to mills'. In 2021, we started work on building two new solar parks, and now, in 2022, we're bringing geothermal energy to our customers' fuel mix, a first in the UK. We're also developing green gas mills which will generate 100% green gas from a source that we will never run out of- grass.

We don't just focus on energy though- we built Electric Highways, Britain's leading network of electric vehicle charging points, we helped Forest Green Rovers become the greenest football club in the world, and, in partnership with RSPB, we launched Britain's greenest mobile phone service, Ecotalk + RSPB.

Ecotricity is an equal opportunities employer and is committed to providing equality for all.

Job Types: Full-time, Permanent

Benefits:

• Additional leave
• Casual dress
• Company events
• Company pension
• Cycle to work scheme
• Employee discount
• Free parking
• Life insurance
• On-site parking
• Store discount

Schedule:

• Monday to Friday

Ability to commute/relocate:

• Stroud: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (preferred)

Application question(s):

• Do you require Sponsorship?

Work authorisation:

• United Kingdom (required)

Work Location: Hybrid remote in Stroud

Reference ID: 1505