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About us

The Department for Business and Trade (DBT) is the department for economic growth. The Digital, Data and Technology (DDaT) directorate develops and operates tools and services to support businesses to invest, grow and export, creating jobs and opportunities across the country.

About the role

This role sites within the Department for Business and Trades SOC (Security Operations Centre), reporting to the Principal Cyber Engineer. The SOC is responsible for identification and mitigation of threats, both internal and external to the security of DBT. This role is to support these actions by creating new capabilities, supporting existing capabilities and provide expertise to analysts when required.

Focussing on supporting the delivery of the monitoring and development aspects of DBTs TOM (Target Operating Model), this role will involve development of security tools, providing cyber security advice to the development community in DBT to ensure best practice is being followed.

This role will be suitable for an individual with a DevSecOps (Development and Security Operations) background or someone who has skills in both development and Cyber Security.

You will be:

• Supporting the Principal Cyber Security Engineer and SOC Manager in the implementation of the monitoring and improvement roadmap
• Identifying areas of improvement within the SOC and building a plan to implement the improvement
• Testing and Implementing changes within multiple Cloud Environments
• Producing software documentation to accurately represent the system that has been implemented and its current state for other engineers to use and rely on
• Updating and maintaining existing tools and infrastructure
• Facilitating the ingestion and enriching new logging services into the SIEM (Security Incident and Event Management) Tool for the analysts
• Maintaining the pipelines and infrastructure that is facilitating the ingestion of logs and processing logs
• Being able to assist with active investigations that and provide expert knowledge to assist analysts
• Creating Playbooks for creating new capabilities and documentation for maintaining new capabilities

Skills and experience

 It is essential that you have:

• In depth experience in configuring AWS and Azure policies and infrastructure, underlying logging systems and mechanisms
• Demonstratable experience configuring Security related tools and implementing security policies
• Demonstratable experience working with a SIEM tool (Microsoft Sentinel, Splunk, etc)
• Understanding of threats to an organisation and how they can be mitigated using tools
• Good communication and stakeholder management skills, acting as a bridge between the technical and the non-technical

It is desirable that you have:

• Knowledge of AWS with configuring Security elements of AWS (Guard Duty, CloudTrail, CloudWatch)
• Knowledge of using Python and/or the Django framework
• Good working knowledge of Query Languages (SQL, KQL (Kusto), etc.)

• Learning and development tailored to your role
• An environment with flexible working options
• A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity
• A Civil Service pension with an average employer contribution of 27%

Job contact :

• Name : DDaT Recruitment
• Email : [email protected]

Recruitment team

• Email : [email protected]