Senior Security Solutions Engineer

At GSK, we're a company with a purpose to help people do more, feel better and live longer. We realize that our purpose starts with us. When we feel at our best, we perform at our best. Therefore, we want all applicants to be able to perform their best throughout the recruitment process.

We will be delighted to hear from talented individuals that align to our values. These are at the heart of everything we do and include: Patient focus, Transparency, Respect, Integrity along with Courage, Accountability, Development, and Teamwork.

When you set out on your adventure at GSK, we make a deal. You commit to living our values and expectations and performing against our Innovation, Performance and Trust priorities. In return, GSK commits to providing the right environment for you to thrive. Together, we build an environment where we can all thrive and focus on what matters most to each of us.

As a modern employer, we empower you to be yourself, share ideas and work collaboratively!

In this role you will...

• Identify, recommend, develop, and implement technical security solutions from start to finish to improve GSK’s endpoint security posture.

• Hold full operational responsibility of security products within the endpoint environment.

• Drive milestone planning, deployment coordination, change management, documentation, and user training of new and existing technologies.

• Manage and optimize host-based firewall configurations (e.g., Windows Firewall, Linux IPTables/Firewalld) to ensure robust protection against threats.

• Collaborate with other Information Security teams and outsourcing providers to ensure technology security solutions align with organizational strategic goals.

• Act as a Security Engineering subject matter expert to lead projects and initiatives.

• Serve as a tier III resource for security-related issues or outages.

Our Security Infrastructure team is responsible for maintaining and operating services that protect 100k+ workstations, critical servers and databases within GSK infrastructure both on-premise and cloud. The services we operate are of a global nature, providing service solutions to multiple business units, located around the world.

Why you?

Qualifications & Skills:

• Min. 3 years of IT Security Engineering experience working in an enterprise infrastructure or security architecture environment.

• Essential: Proven expertise in managing host-based firewalls on both Windows (e.g., Windows Firewall) and Linux systems (e.g., IPTables, Firewalld).

• Experience with at least 2 of the following proficiencies:
  - Endpoint Detection and Response Software – (Defender, Crowdstrike, Carbon Black, Tanium);
  - Host-Based Encryption – (Bitlocker)
  - Data Loss Prevention – (McAfee, Symantec, Forcepoint);
  - Cloud Security Controls – (Azure, GCP)

• Experience of problems solving and investigating complex issues within a highly regulated and secure environment.

• Thorough knowledge and understanding of network security and network technologies.

• Working knowledge of various industry security standards and frameworks including: NIST, ISO 27001 and CIS benchmark.

• Good communication, interpersonal skills, teamwork, relationship building.

Preferred qualifications:

• Professional certifications such as: CISSP, CCNP Security, GIAC, CEH, OSCP, CISM or other relevant industry certification and/or desire to obtain such certifications.

• Experience with scripting languages such as Powershell, Python, VBScript, and Bash.

Why GSK?

What we offer:

• Career with purpose - whatever it is you’re doing, you’ll be sharing our mission to improve the quality of human life, by enabling people to do more, feel better and live longer.

• Non-wage benefits (medical care, life insurance, pension scheme, sports card, recreation allowance, social fund, preventive healthcare services).

• Hybrid working model ( 2/3 days per week in the office).

• Career at one of the leading global healthcare companies.

• Supportive & friendly working environment.

• Corporate culture, based on being Ambitious for patients, Accountable for Impact and Doing the right thing, which powers our purpose, drives delivery of our strategy and helps make GSK a place where people can thrive.

As an Inclusive employer, we encourage you to reach out if you need any adjustments during the recruitment process. Please contact our Recruitment Team at pl.recruitment-adjustments@gsk.com to discuss your needs.

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Why GSK?

Uniting science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together.

GSK is a global biopharma company with a special purpose – to unite science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together – so we can positively impact the health of billions of people and deliver stronger, more sustainable shareholder returns – as an organisation where people can thrive. We prevent and treat disease with vaccines, specialty and general medicines. We focus on the science of the immune system and the use of new platform and data technologies, investing in four core therapeutic areas (infectious diseases, HIV, respiratory/ immunology and oncology).

Our success absolutely depends on our people. While getting ahead of disease together is about our ambition for patients and shareholders, it’s also about making GSK a place where people can thrive. We want GSK to be a place where people feel inspired, encouraged and challenged to be the best they can be. A place where they can be themselves – feeling welcome, valued, and included. Where they can keep growing and look after their wellbeing. So, if you share our ambition, join us at this exciting moment in our journey to get Ahead Together.

GSK is an Equal Opportunity Employer. This ensures that all qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, gender identity, and sexual orientation), parental status, national origin, age, disability, genetic information (including family medical history), military service or any basis prohibited under federal, state or local law.

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