Cyber Security Engineer

Cyber Security Engineer - McAfee experience essential

Role Description

My client, a leading defence consultancy, is seeking an experienced Cyber Security Engineer with a strong background in McAfee implementations.

These positions perform the following tasks:

• Work under the direct supervision of the Security Engineering Lead to:
• Implement and maintain the Security tooling and technical controls.
• Work with the engineering teams to ensure systems remain at the required security posture against baseline requirements.
• Develop and document system security baselines.
• Work with the Protective Monitoring engineering team to ensure logs are forwarded to the SIEM capability.
• Work with the customer and appropriate agencies to develop new policies, design processes, and procedures, and develop technical designs.
• Assess system vulnerabilities, implement risk mitigation strategies, validate secure systems, and test security products and systems to detect security weaknesses.
• British - Non-dual national; many of our projects have nationality restrictions.
• SC Clearance is essential for this role; please do not apply if you are not already SC cleared as we won't be able to represent you for the role.

Skills/Experience Required

• McAfee integration experience.
• Experience of taking a defence-in-depth and multi-layered approach to security architecture.
• Experience of implementing detective and preventative security controls to reduce risk to an acceptable level.
• Understanding of the controlling processes for, and experience of a significant portion of, the systems engineering lifecycle (e.g., requirements management, configuration management).
• Excellent understanding of Confidentiality, Integrity, and Availability (CIA) and practical experience in applying that.
• Malware.
• DLP.
• Experience in implementing security requirements for a system:
• Microsoft OS.
• Linux OS.
• Virtualisation technologies.
• Networking.
• Endpoint Security Products.