Cyber Security - Platform Engineer

As part of the Sky Italia cyber security team, you will be end-to-end responsible for the implementation and operation of our strategy in security monitoring and endpoint protection, designing and managing our strategic cybersecurity platforms/tooling from a regional perspective.

You work in a cross-territorial team within our local Cybersecurity Oversight & Engineering team, which is a part of our Group-wide Cyber Fusion Centre, working across markets in a holistic, global vision.

Main responsabilities:

• Manage and support design, development and maintenance of the Sky Group Cyber Fusion Centre cyber security monitoring and reporting tooling/platforms.
• By collaborating with your team - implement innovative dashboarding to improve the way we make decisions.
• Produce high quality, actionable insights through analytics and cutting-edge predictive algorithms.
• Work as a self-starter and be actively curious about what numbers are telling us and how they can be actioned upon to improve our security posture, process effectiveness and operational understanding. 
• Produce strategic views of our data and enable our teams to make better decisions using the data and telemetry available to us.
• Develop and maintain a clean, elegant and well thought out monitoring solution that allows the aggregation and correlation of data from the various cyber security platforms already in use across the cyber fusion centre.
• Work with colleagues across various disciplines and different regions to pull together holistic insights – this will include analytics, research, and the ability to take complex data sets and turn them into clear simple insights through an innovative dashboarding programme.

Requirements:

• Preferred a master degree in Computer Science or Telecommunication Engineering (or equivalent education).
• Proven experience in Cyber Security (at least 2-3 years of qualified experience, in a large enterprise environment or consultancy firms).
• Experience in deploying / implementing security event monitoring solutions (based on SIEM or SIEM-like, such as Splunk, Microsoft Sentinel, …) across large corporate environments.
• Deep knowledge and/or proven experience in endpoint protection solutions/platforms (i.e.: EDR, XDR, …).
• Excellent understanding of Cloud services and architectures.
• Technical hands-on skills on Palo Alto XSOAR or other SOAR platforms.
• Good knowledge of main authentication protocols, network communication and encryption mechanism, privileged access management solution
• Good knowledge of main operating systems (Linux, Windows)
• Strong academic qualifications with a focus on development or engineering.
• Insight Experience: candidate must have experience in turning complex data into comprehensive and actionable insights.
• A passion for technology with skills and/or basic knowledge about following technologies/standards in data manipulation, archiving or exchange : Python, Databases (Oracle, MS SQL, …), JSON, REST API, XML, …
• Previous experience in advanced data analytics tooling/languages such as Excel, Power BI, SQL.
• High degree of initiative, dependability and ability to work with little supervision while being resilient to change.
• Languages: Italian (native), English (full proficiency)

Soft skills:

• Ability to create and maintain positive business relationships.
• Ability to constructively and proactively interact with other structures, suppliers and stakeholders, respecting needs of each role.
• Flexibility, autonomy, speed; proactive and highly assertive candidate, with a strong goal orientation.