Infrastructure Security Engineer

About the role

Infrastructure Security Engineer Location - London or Winchester with hybrid working as per departmental requirements (currently a MINIMUM of 40% (2 days per week). LCP is an award-winning actuarial and analytics consultancy providing market-leading capabilities and advice across pensions and financial services, energy, and health. We use powerful analytics fused with human expertise to shape a more positive future. We have a great opportunity to join our Infrastructure team as a Security Engineer. This role is perfectly poised at the intersection of traditional Infrastructure Security operations and the future's promise of AI and automation. As a Security Engineer you will be 75% Hands-On and 25% Policy/Process management. As LCP embarks on this transformative journey, the Infrastructure Security Engineer will be pivotal in ensuring a blend of technological innovation with a deeply human touch. Beyond just problem-solving, this role offers the chosen candidates an opportunity for personal and professional growth. We're not just seeking individuals to join us; we're seeking visionaries who will evolve with us, taking ownership of their development and skills as the landscape of service support undergoes this exciting metamorphosis. The aim remains consistent: to uphold LCP's unwavering commitment to exceptional user experience across all locations. What Under the guidance of the Head of Infrastructure or Security Lead you will: Secure LCP's infrastructure, spanning multiple physical office (UK and Europe) and numerous Cloud subscriptions, through a balanced-risk approach Design and implement technical information security controls and countermeasures, ensuring alignment with the risks they are intended to mitigate Work with an outsourced Security Operations Centre (SOC), maintaining threat detection and response processes in conjunction with the InfoSec team to ensure its continued effectiveness Effectively operate established technical information security controls and countermeasures, ensuring adherence to policy and compliance requirements Deliver standardised security measures for cloud resource templates and configuration baselines, that enable approve teams to efficiently self-serve pre-configured resources Automate manual or repetitive tasks, improving the end-to-end efficiency of technical security measures Respond to new and emerging security threats and vulnerabilities, effectively engaging in cross-functional collaboration as needed Conduct security incident investigations, collaborating with technical and non-technical stakeholders as appropriate, with the aim of identifying root cause, threat vector utilised, scope of compromise and related remedial and preventative actions Implement and administer technical security tooling (Such as Defender for Cloud, Defender for End-Point, Nessus, etc), training others as required Optimise the cost of cloud-based security measures, ensuring they remain fit-for-purpose and right-sized as part of overall infrastructure efficiency Constantly maintain and develop awareness of Emerging threats and vulnerabilities and the techniques used to mitigate them Emerging information security practices, standards and trends within a modern, increasingly cloud-based and Agile/DevOps oriented environment Coordinate with internal and external stakeholders Partner with InfoSec to deliver on key information security risk related initiatives, ensuring compliance to patching and vulnerability policies Partner with Product and Platform team members in respect of secure coding practices and security measures within the infrastructure resources they utilise Establish and cultivate relationships, being a trusted advisor and technical point of contact within the firms engineering community What skills and experience are we looking for? First-hand experience and knowledge of modern information security methodologies, techniques, and tooling, spanning both physical and cloud infrastructure Knowledge of key security standards/frameworks including ISO 27001, NIST, and CIS Experience of securing infrastructure within a DevOps organisation - including secure coding standards, automation and enterprise monitoring and reporting tools specifically within Microsoft Azure Demonstrable experience of security controls and countermeasures within IP based networks, WAN technologies, virtual server technologies and Microsoft Cloud on Windows and Linux Demonstrable experience working with DLP and EDR technologies such as Microsoft Defender Demonstrable first-hand experience with modern Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) solutions and related workflow automation (SOAR) Ability to proactively own and coordinate resolving security issues, to ensure solutions continue to meet business needs Ability to break a problem down into its component parts to identify and diagnose root causes, troubleshooting and identify problems across different technology capabilities Strong planning and organisat

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