Senior Security Engineer - Darktrace - Contractor

Adarma; City of Edinburgh; On-site; GBP 100,000 - 125,000

Job description

Who we are

We're a company on a mission to protect the promise of cyber resilience. From banking and retail to food delivery and manufacturing, our team of passionate cyber defenders are committed to protecting the things that matter. We stand side-by-side with our customers every day providing innovative cybersecurity solutions that protect against threats, mitigate risk and deliver outcomes that make a remarkable difference. We want to defend cyberspace with people who share our passion for stopping cyber criminals. We empower access to equal opportunities, hiring people and their potential, not just a job description.

What you will do

We are actively recruiting for a Senior Security Engineer on a 6-month contract, Inside IR35, to act as a Darktrace subject matter expert for one of our clients.

In this role, you will:

1. Provide customers with support to develop and enhance their security controls and capabilities. This will include:
   1. Performing data analysis to determine how best to meet desired security controls
   2. Testing to ensure that the proposed technical solution works and resolving any issues in advance of go live into the production system
   3. Configure, maintain and enhance the toolset in accordance with the customer's needs
   4. Create documentation such as policies, processes, toolkits, dashboards and management information to support the services offered to customers.
2. Apply your high level of technical knowledge and experience to prepare and deliver technical presentations to customers and audiences at external conferences and events.
3. Provide subject matter expertise to projects by proactively identifying and assessing gaps in security controls and providing / implementing appropriate technical solutions to address customer requirements.
4. Share appropriate information relating to your area of expertise with both the internal and external technical community.
5. Provide technical support to security teams as required in interpreting data to identify security issues, trends, possible security flaws and misconfigurations.

What you will bring

1. Experience working with Darktrace, including:
1. Maintaining and performing upgrades on physical appliances, network sensors and the core platform.
2. Provide insight and support the SOC team on incident triage.
3. Optimisation and tuning of models, policies and configurations.
4. Review current configuration, network settings and Antigena to ensure Darktrace is operating at optimal level.
2. Adaptable and willing to work on multiple tooling/platforms.
3. Perform risk assessments and recommend mitigation strategies for identified risks.
4. SIEM/SOAR knowledge such as Splunk and Microsoft Sentinel.
5. Knowledge of industry best practices for cloud and cybersecurity.
6. Stay updated on current threat intelligence, trends, TTPs, and vulnerabilities.
7. Control validation and threat assessments using AttackIQ.