Cyber Security Engineer

Job Title: Cyber Security- Cyber Security Engineer

Location: Dublin 2 Full time role. Typical arrangement is 1-2 days in office attendance per week + onsite as required

Contract / Permanent: FTC 12 Months, With further extension

Start date: On or before 24/02/2025

Role:

Our Client is looking to establish a cyber security posture management team including the role of Cybersecurity Engineer.

The cybersecurity engineer role is a hands-on technical role that actions findings from the Threat Intel and Risk officers. The role is practical and requires an investigative mindset alongside an understanding of technology and an ability to quickly learn new systems and see how processes interconnect to provide a service as a whole.

Responsibilities:

• Incident Response scenario testing

Working with the Cyber Risk officer and subject matter experts to review incident response plans and test for shortfalls or omissions as well as unidentified dependencies.

• Runbook and Procedure maintenance

Initial generation of response procedures and branching activity references. Ongoing adjustment as state changes or testing indicates a requirement. Also, additional procedures and responses required as tech stack profile changes. This activity will require close collaboration with subject matter experts to ensure runbooks are accurate and feasible.

• Risk and Vulnerability Management

Detection of and response to identified vulnerabilities

Work closely with subject matter experts to agree a remediation plan

Report on risk status and closure

• Project participation

Work with other teams and security teams on various projects that require security input and assistance. The Cybersecurity officer should be a resource that other teams can draw on to enhance their own security capabilities.

• Cybersecurity Assessment

Work with the Threat Intel officer to ensure cybersecurity testing is carried out efficiently and accurately.

Accurately report findings and issues in a timely manner to allow for escalation and management under the Risk and Vulnerability Management process

• SIEM monitoring

Aside from responding to alerts raised by the SIEM MSP it is necessary to monitor dashboards for unusual activity and to respond to suspected issues before they become incidents. This will require a good knowledge of Revenue systems and operations as well as collaboration with system owners and subject matter experts

• Security Incident /Event review

Work with subject matter experts to document incidents and events that have a security impact.

Identify the risk and threat elements of the event and report to the relevant officer for inclusion in future models and assessments

Experience Level Required:

• It is a mandatory requirement, that the Resource proposed has the equivalent of 1 year of Cybersecurity experience with demonstrable experience of SOC or SIEM environments.
• It is a mandatory requirement, that the Resource proposed hold the following qualifications or equivalents:A Professional qualification cybersecurity

Key Deliverable:

The following non-exhaustive list of Key Deliverables, are applicable to this Role.

• Assist operational teams in developing runbooks and procedures
• Delivery accurate and timely security review reports on incidents and events
• Participate in security testing as directed by the Risk officer
• Monitor and report on SIEM events and trends
• Actively contribute to ongoing reporting requirements of the Cybersecurity team
• Contribute to cross team projects as a source of security information and opinion

Requirements

Key Experience/ Competencies/Skillsets:

The following Experience/Competencies/Skillsets are applicable to this Role.

1. Demonstrable experience of Security Operations in a FinTech or Public Sector environment.

2. Experience of stakeholder communication and management

3. Experience of monitoring in any or all of the following environments

a. Web Services

b. Infrastructure (network, windows, linux, database)

c. Cloud (AWS, GCP, Azure)

4. Evidence of experience with runbook or procedure generation and assessment

5. Report writing and delivery of results

6. Working as part of a team to deliver effective response

7. Powershell / Bash / Python scripting experience would be considered beneficial

Job Types: Full-time, Permanent, Fixed term
Contract length: 12 months

Schedule:

• Day shift