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The Security Platform Engineer will be responsible for supporting the management of security solutions in our on-premises estate including endpoints and mobile devices, ensuring the protection of our data, applications, and systems against cyber threats. The Security Platform Engineer will integrate with other areas of Infrastructure security, providing expertise, advice and suggestions on Infrastructure related issues.

What’s in it for you

Being a part of M&S is exactly that – playing your part to bring the magic of M&S to our customers every day. We’re an inclusive, dynamic, exciting, and ever evolving business built on doing the right thing and bringing exceptional quality, value, service to every customer, whenever, wherever and however they want to shop with us.

Here are some of the benefits we offer that make working for M&S just that little bit more special…

• After completing your probationary period, you’ll receive 20% colleague discount across all M&S products and many of our third-party brands for you and a member of your household.
• Competitive holiday entitlement with the potential to buy extra holiday days!
• Discretionary bonus schemes awarded based on how you achieve your personal objectives and our performance as a business.
• A generous Defined Contribution Pension Scheme and Life Assurance.
• A dedicated welcome to our teams with a tailored induction and a wide range of training programmes to develop your skills.
• Amazing perks and discounts via our M&S Choices portal to maximise your financial and personal wellbeing.
• Industry-leading parental, adoption and neonatal policies, providing support and flexibility for your family.
• Access to a fantastic range of wellbeing support for all colleagues including access to our 24/7 Virtual GP and PAM Assist to support you and your family.
• A charity volunteer day to support a charity or cause you're passionate about through a dedicated day away from work.

What you'll do

• Ensure the on-prem devices and systems are complying with security standards and that there is a remediation process for any non-compliances.
• To improve security posture of endpoints, mobile devices and on-prem servers.
• Improve the security controls and configurations within the technologies.
• Fine tune and optimize security tools and processes.
• Contribute to the development and implementation of security policies and procedures.
• Ability to use lateral thinking to break a problem down into its component parts to identify and diagnose root causes
• Ability to communicate effectively with peers and stakeholders, including those with limited subject knowledge
• Helping to define security standards and guardrails and supporting their implementation and support
• Maintain a good level of awareness and understanding of technology and security threats and of marketplace developments to address these

Who you are

• Minimum 2 years relevant experience in infrastructure security products
• Hands-on experience with endpoint security tools and Microsoft technologies within Azure, such as Defender XDR, In-tune.
• Hands-on experience of Palo Alto, Fortinet and ability to demonstrate expertise would be a very strong advantage. Understanding of Panorama and FortiManager is beneficial.
• Experience of Akamai security tools would be a strong advantage
• Hands-on experience of Z-Scaler ZIA and ZPA and policy management is beneficial
• Working knowledge of Microsoft Sentinel
• Experience and knowledge of analysing security alerts, incidents and threat hunting to identify potential threats and weakness in solutions
• Hands-on experience in configuring and managing policies within security tools.
• Demonstrate working knowledge of programming (Python, PowerShell etc.) and working with API

Everyone’s welcome

We are ambitious about the future of retail. We’re disrupting, innovating and leading the industry into a more conscientious, inspiring digital era. We’re transforming how we work together and offering our most exciting opportunities yet. Marks & Spencer strives to be an inclusive organisation, trusted and admired by our colleagues, customers and suppliers. Join us and make change happen.

We are committed to building diverse and representative teams, where everyone can bring their whole selves to work and be at their best. We support each other and work together to win together.

If you feel you'd benefit from any support or reasonable adjustments during any stage of the recruitment process, please don’t hesitate to let us know when completing your application. This information will be picked up by our team, so we can try and put steps in place to help you be at your best through this process.

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