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Cyber Security Specialist - Dynamics & Azure - Edinburgh (Contract)
Location: Edinburgh, Scotland Country: UK Rate: £450 - £600 per day
CYBER SECURITY SPECIALIST - 12 MONTH INITIAL CONTRACT - OUTSIDE IR35
Loriens leading Public Sector Client is looking to hire a highly experienced Cyber Security Specialist.
Key Responsibilities
- Be aware of the current cyber threat landscape and industry best practices and standards.
- Support initial scoping and risk assessment of a change project.
- Interpret security best practice and accreditation requirements to determine security requirements
- Adapt existing cyber security standards and controls to fit specific change projects
- Carry out threat modelling and risk assessments
- Review high and low level designs drafted by solution architects.
- Maintain a security design assessment for new services
- Carry out basic hands on security assessments (eg SSL Labs config or CSP evaluator, not including full pen testing)
- Plan and co-ordinate independent pen testing
- Provide recommendations for stage gating and go live decisions
- Own completion and accuracy of all security related product delivery evidence
- Provide recommendations for SecOps processes and automation for new systems
Technical scope
- Security products (email filtering, AV, Firewalls, WAFs, MS Defender)
- Security Testing (SAST, DAST)
- Virtualisation platforms and operating systems, including Hyper-V and Windows Server.
- Enterprise Systems (email, PKI, AD, GP, SCCM, Azure, M365)
- Application platforms (MS Dynamics, Power Platform)
- Cloud platforms (Azure)
Skills Required
- Security and Risk assessment
- In depth understanding of and experience with enterprise scale digital service provision
- Demonstrable recent record making security contribution during the development of a new digital service
- Ability to work well in an agile project team with internal colleagues and suppliers
- Ability to self-start, accept ownership and see through security aspects of project start to finish
- Ability to share knowledge and experience with colleagues and effectively hand over to SecOps
Desirable Skills
- Experience with MS Dynamics, Power Platform and Azure
- Experience managing independent testing (scope, pre-test config, triage findings)
- Experience with MCSE Certified or equivalent experience
- ITIL certification
Carbon60, Lorien & SRG - The Impellam Group STEM Portfolio are acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.
Posted Date: 07 May 2024
Reference: JS-BBBH143663
Employment Business: Lorien
Contact: Neve Caffrey