Infrastructure Security Analyst

Company Description

Helping over ten million people around the world manage their savings, retirement plans and life insurance requires a lot of people behind-the-scenes.  It’s up to us in L&G Group functions – which includes our tech and digital teams, Group Finance, HR, Risk and Corporate Comms to provide the essential support services that all areas of the business need, here in the UK and overseas. Simply put, we enable everyone at Legal & General to do what they do best. That means we’re helping to improve our customers’ lives, and contributing to the success of the business every day.

Job Description

We have an incredible opportunity for an Infrastructure Security Analyst to join in either London or Hove!

You'll help safeguard the business through reviewing the security posture and configuration of our network security controls, identifying weaknesses and driving remediation activity. If you are looking for a varied role where you will get involved in vulnerability management, penetration testing, endpoint security, web filtering and firewalls then this could be the perfect next challenge for you!

What you’ll be doing

• Analysing data from and identifying security improvements to other Infrastructure Security components such as Web Application Firewalls, IDS/IPS, Web Filters, E-Mail Security, and DLP. Making recommendations to improve the configuration/design of the solution
• Conducting firewall configuration security reviews; analysing configuration and logs from Firewalls and related networking devices to identify opportunities for security improvements in configuration and design. This will involve understanding the environment, collaborating with relevant technical and application teams and making recommendations for changes, facilitating their implementation with SMEs
• Supporting the maintenance of the Firewall and Network assurance application; task monitoring of configuration, data collection and analysis jobs
• Assisting the Vulnerability Manager in the identification, prioritisation and remediation of security vulnerabilities across the L&G group
• Supporting team mailboxes and queues; contributing to the management of the team’s support queues, and mailboxes, providing 1st line support of tickets and queries.
• Keeping up to date on threat actor approaches and methods, making recommendations to detect and defend against these activities

Qualifications

What we’re looking for

• Strong understanding of Firewall and related network security technologies
• Strong understanding of networks and network protocols and the risk posed by related security vulnerabilities
• Knowledge/experience in information protection, data leakage protection, and cloud security
• Knowledge of the threat landscape, particularly exploited vulnerabilities
• Prior industry experience relevant to this role covering Firewall assurance, and network security, preferably using relevant security frameworks and tooling
• Experience with vulnerability management, and vulnerability scanning tools would be a huge plus!
• Experience in managing complex stakeholder relationships
• It would also be great if you have relevant certifications and/or accreditations relevant to this position (CISSP/CISM etc) 

Additional Information

 When you commit to Legal & General, we’ll commit to you too. That means we’ll recognise and reward your hard work, your performance and your contribution.

If you join us, you’ll get access to some great benefits, including private medical insurance, at least 25 days holiday (excluding bank holidays), a generous pension scheme, life assurance, and Income Protection. You can participate in our electric car scheme, which offers employees the option to hire a brand new electric car through tax efficient salary sacrifice. We’re also proud to offer competitive family leave.

You’ll have the opportunity to participate in our annual, performance-related bonus plan and valuable share schemes. And then there are the many discounts we offer that you can take advantage of – both for our own products and at a range of high street stores and online offerings.

The brand with the brolly is choosing today to change tomorrow.

Since 1836, we’ve grown to become one of the world's largest asset managers, homebuilders, pension providers and insurance brands. 

We’re all here to improve the lives of our customers, build a better society for the long term, and create value for our shareholders - helping to shape a better future for society and the planet.

We need people who share our ambitions, agility and entrepreneurial spirit to help us do it.

At L&G, you’ll find a balance that helps you be your best. Empowered by hybrid working, we’re supported by technology and workplaces that enable us to work effectively wherever we are. We come together in offices to collaborate and connect, and use time at home for individual, focused activities. And, when we achieve great things, we celebrate our success and reward strong performance.

Today, there’s over 10,000 of us, working towards our mission, with plenty of opportunities to grow your career as we grow L&G. Will you join us?

Great minds don’t have to think alike, so we welcome voices from all backgrounds. Bringing together people with different life experiences helps us build empathy with our customers and drive innovation.

We don’t just talk about it, we actively promote diversity and equitable opportunities for all. That means our employment decisions are made without regard to race, colour, religion, national or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability or protected veteran status. In fact, we embrace every dimension of diversity to reflect the customers and communities we serve.

We think it’s important to create an inclusive environment where we can all belong, contribute and drive progress, where you can develop and grow, and be empowered. We want you to use your voice to help us build a better tomorrow.

We all work differently, and have different needs, which is why. we’re always open to discussing flexible working arrangements. Likewise, we’re committed to finding reasonable accommodations for candidates with specific needs during our recruiting process.

So whoever you are, wherever you are, whatever your story, we'd love to hear from you.