The role
You will be joining a busy 247 SOC, where Security Engineers are are ultimately responsible for ensuring that ANS’s customers are protected from unauthorised access. You will be responsible for securing both online and on premise infrastructures, weeding through metrics and data to filter out suspicious activity, and finding and mitigating risks before breaches occur. If a breach does occur, Security Engineers are often on the front line, leading efforts to counter the attack. This role is ideal for candidates who like a technical challenge and enjoy the ever changing nature of cyber security.
What will I be doing?
- Develops standards, policies and procedures as well as best practices documentation
- Tuning of Alerts
- Maintaining and improving the security posture of our clients
- Identify and implement new security technologies and best practices into
- Monitoring and responding to SOC alerts
- Assisting with compromise investigations and e-discovery requests
- Liaising with clients via ticket and phone call
- Reviewing vulnerability scans and providing remediation advice to clients
- Proactive monitoring of clients solutions
- Assisting Sales/Account managers with client security
- On-Boarding new customers
- Generating reports for senior business members to evaluate the efficiency of the security policies ANS have in place
What will I bring to the role?
- A good understanding of the following technologies is required:
- Experience with Linux and Windows operating systems
- Experience with VMWare virtualized environments
- Knowledge of syslog and event viewer
- Incident Response
- Experience with SIEM solutions
- Network Defence
- NIST CVSS Vulnerabilities and scoring system
- OS Specific log data
- IPTables
- Knowledge of secure development principles and OWASP top 10
Essential:
- Candidate must be capable of achieving HMG Security Clearance
- Willingness to work a shift pattern of days and nights
Why work for ANS?
At ANS, we’ve created a place where everyone can be themselves, and we empower our people to get the job done. Openness, ambition, honesty, and passion are what drive us every day. We are bold, courageous, and innovative – and we do it like no other. We invest in our people. In training, development, health and more – we give you the benefits and flexibility to maintain a happy work-life balance.
We’re proud of the inclusive, fun, dynamic environment we’ve created. It’s a safe space that works for all. You don’t have to be a techie to work in tech. Bring your authentic self and find your dream role here. Find out more at LinkedIn pages.
What’s in it for you?
With fantastic benefits, an inclusive culture, and a cool office space, we’re your kind of workplace.
Company benefits
- As standard: 25 days’ holiday, plus you can buy up to 5 more days
- A little extra: we’ll give you your birthday off, and an extra celebration day for whatever you want! Tying the knot? You get 5 days’ additional holiday in the year you get married. Oh, and 5 volunteer days!
- Private health insurance
- Pension contribution match and 4 x life assurance
- Flexible working and work from anywhere for up to 30 days per year (some exceptions)
- Maternity: 16 weeks’ full pay, Paternity: 3 weeks’ full pay, Adoption: 16 weeks’ full pay
- Company social events – get ready for a jam-packed calendar
- Electric car scheme
- 12 days of personal growth development time
ANS are an equal opportunities employer. We encourage diversity and anyone applying for a role at our organisation can be assured that their application will be treated fairly, regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, gender expression, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief and sex or sexual orientation. We sometimes ask for information relating to individuals for equal opportunities monitoring purposes only.
