Cyber Security Specialist

Location:

Birmingham, West Midlands, United Kingdom

Job ID:

R0057331

Date Posted:

2024-08-14

Company Name:

HITACHI ENERGY UK LIMITED

Profession (Job Category):

IT, Telecom & Internet

Job Schedule: 

Full time

Remote:

Yes

Job Description:

Reporting to the IE/UK HVDC Service Manager you will be site/home based, anywhere in the UK, but will be required to attend various customer sites throughout the UK, Ireland and overseas.

Your responsibilities:

• Assisting in the design and implementation of Cyber specific projects and systems, network and security architectures and delivering sustainable services to maintain the customer specific Service Level Agreements (SLA’s).
• Ensuring our project and service deliverables meet the defined cyber security requirements outlined between Hitachi Energy and our customers.
• Introducing new cyber security-related policies, standards and practices
• Actively contributing to identifying, managing and reducing cyber security risks.
• Anticipating and influencing current and future technologies and trends.
• Representing Hitachi Energy as a cyber security expert in customer discussions.
• Creating, maintaining and sharing a comprehensive understanding of global cyber security risks and market requirements, including regulations and standards
• Additional requirement to integrate into an existing On-Call roster
• Capable of developing and following network diagrams and overall network architecture.
• Participating in cyber security risk assessments as a subject-matter expert
• Interfacing with R&D departments and customers, ensuring expectations are met and exceeded
• Actively contributing to identifying and capturing opportunities for improvement
• To liaise with project management on outage development, and to provide forecast cost to complete estimates and associated justification to changes in expenditure

Your background:

• A university degree within a relevant technical area, preferably Computer Science
• Demonstrated excellent customer focus experience.
• Experience with databases and high-availability solutions
• Experience with scripting languages and automation technologies
• Experience with port-, vulnerability-, and malware scanners, able to digest and communicate the output
• Knowledge of intrusion detection systems, security information event monitoring, application control and other security-relevant systems is a major plus
• Experience with network equipment (firewalls, switches) and redundant network designs and protocols
• Experience with Microsoft client- and server operating systems (virtual and bare metal) from legacy to current generations
• Experience with Active Directory and the different roles, integration with third-party devices and appliances
• Previous experience from critical infrastructure is also a major plus
• Clean full driving licence
• Security clearance to comply with BS7858:2019
• Fluent written & spoken English