Security Engineer

About LRQA Nettitude

At LRQA Nettitude our focus has always been on excellence in cyber security. We have teams that offer world class services in red teaming, penetration testing, threat intelligence, research and development, detection and response, governance, risk, and compliance, and plenty more. Our business is global and so are our clients. We work closely with central banks, central and local government, critical national infrastructure, large retailers, and plenty more besides!

We’re an award winning provider of cyber security services and we’re are at a very exciting stage of development. We are looking for the right people to join us as we embrace the challenges thrown up by the advancements within the IT industry and within the threats faced. Nettitude will be at the forefront of this arena and we want to seek the right people to join the team and make it happen.

You can find out more about us at www.nettitude.com.

The role

Working as a Security Engineer within our MSS team, you will use your expertise to facilitate the detection and response to a multitude of threats of differing capability and sophistication. You will use, administer, and maintain our SIEM, EDR, Network Monitoring, bespoke tooling, and Threat Intelligence solutions to enable the triage of suspicious events, provide context and assessment of risk/threat to our customers.

You will also get involved in projects that maintain and enhance the capability of our services, and ensure we are providing innovative detection & response services to our clients. This includes threat hunting, supporting the implementation of new cutting-edge technology, malware analysis, recommending detections and getting involved in strategic cross-team projects as part of your wider role within our award-winning Security Operations Centre.

Location

This role is hybrid based within the UK, with a mixture of Home and Office based working for collaboration, team building, workshops and clinic days. We can support working from across the UK. All applicants will require residence in the UK.

What you’ll be doing in your role:

 As a Security Engineer, you'll need to:

• Monitor and maintain Nettitude’s technology stack, creating and tuning alerts where necessary
• Triage of events from tools at your disposal to collaboratively deliver verdicts on risk levels when investigating these events; escalating to the customer when a positive level of risk has been determined.
• Ensure each customer’s operational health is maintained and respond to all platform requests within agreed SLAs.
• Ensure customer environments are onboarded in a timely manner with risk ratings applied.
• Assist with the implementation of any required upgrades to the technology stack.
• Assist with the development of solutions to improve detections and operational capability.
• Maintain an awareness of the latest Defensive Monitoring technologies and trends
• Maintain an up-to-date understanding of current threats and trends in Cyber Crime and apply this information as part of your daily duties when creating custom use cases and altering the SOC Monitor infrastructure.
• Assist both Infrastructure Support and Network Operations in a wide range of duties ranging from security best practice recommendations through to analysing suspicious activity on infrastructure devices.
• Liaise with Account Managers across the business and assist with the presentation of SOC Monitor technology demonstrations to both current and prospective customers.
• Maintain regular written and verbal communication with customers, suppliers, and internally as required.

Key Skills:

The following are the requirements for this role. Please still apply if you only have experience in some of the points below: 

• Demonstrable SIEM, EDR, and EPP skills and technical familiarity of SIEM solutions such as LogRhythm and Sentinel.
• Demonstrable experience of working in a Complex, High-Performing Service Management Enterprise Environment.
• Microsoft SC-200 certification
• An understanding of Python and RegEx
• An understanding of IT infrastructure including Windows and Linux applications as well as network and other security vendor products.
• Experience of analysing complex data, making sensible recommendations, and presenting to management teams as part of continuous service improvement.
• Understanding of attack vectors, with the ability to differentiate between normal and abnormal activity, providing recommendations on countermeasures and remediation activities
• Experience in a customer-facing role; communicating to different levels of stakeholders

Desirable:

• LogRhythm and Microsoft certifications such as LRSE and AZ-500.
• Experience in writing queries in Kusto Query Language.
• Experience with conducting investigations using large datasets.

What we offer:

We are a people-focused, high-performing, high-trust managed security services team. We pride ourselves on our investment in our people, meaning as we are a fast-evolving team in an exciting working environment, you’ll always have opportunities to solve the latest cybersecurity challenges, with the responsibility and development opportunities to match.

Company benefits: 

• Access to our interactive learning platforms via our partners, with encouragement to pursue subsidised external training & certification
• Intensive new starter training program, blending theory, hands-on labs, case studies, online and on the job training to help you hit the ground running
• Consistently updated training & progression plans with multiple tracks of development, supporting lateral movement or upwards progression
• Generous annual training, cross-training and project days
• The option to join in with company and department socials to relax, get to know your new colleagues and team build
• Yearly wellness day to be spent in the way that works best for you
• Recognition & rewards for individual, team and department performance
• Performance-based bonus programme
• Generous pension scheme
• A supportive team enabling you to succeed and grow your career

An attractive remuneration package will be provided.

Apply?

We don’t expect candidates to tick all the boxes. If you feel your skills, knowledge and experience are a good match for the requirements and you have a desire to learn and develop, we want to hear from you. #LI-Nettitude

Are you interested in this job? Apply now via the ‘apply’ button and upload your C.V. and cover letter