(Senior) Platform Security Engineer - AZURE d/f/m

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​RWE Supply & Trading GmbH
To start as soon as possible, full time, permanent

Department Insights

Cloud and Data Center (C&DC) support servers, databases, storage, Azure Cloud & physical infrastructure for the whole of the RWE Group.

This support includes round-the-clock provision of platform services and development operations in collaboration with Managed Service Provider partners.

We are responsible for

• Engineering: Improving services & products to meet business needs. Design, consultancy, standard setting and 3rd line support.
• Automation & Development: accelerating & improving services through end-to-end automation & high quality code development
• Operations: daily operational support & financial management, including operational availability, deployment patching, incident resolution, request fulfilment.

Your responsibilities

• Senior technical expert / SME for Microsoft Azure Security & policies & IT/general security representative for topics within the Cloud & Data Centre team’s remit, including, but not limited to Compute, storage, database, code & access.
• Be responsible for the specification, design & maintenance of good practice & support of RWE's Cloud and Data Centre (C&DC) Security & policies in conjunction with other SME’s, Cloud Service Providers (CSP) and Managed Service Providers (MSP).
• Communicate and define RWE IT requirements and standards to the MSP teams and ensure adherence as well as to provide technical leadership to the teams.
• Assist our managed service provider to help solve Public Cloud related security incidents 
• Work with Cyber Security & Enterprise Architects as well as other SME’s to support their strategy & create supportable, secure solutions.
• Monitoring and reviewing security logs & issues & working with operations teams to resolution.
• Designs and oversees security standards, policies and tooling, and performs security assessments and audits 
• Work with Azure Platform lead & other SME’s in consulting for application environments & solutions towards migrating workloads, remediating platform service issues, and provide architectural guidance 
• Drive continuous service improvement including automation of operational processes & remediations; especially focusing on enhancing customer experience, reducing inefficiency & duplication, & accelerating speed to delivery.
• Create & Maintain forward looking roadmaps for Security topic; including dependent systems & processes, that support business & department objectives.
• Directly support Project deliveries that impact C&DC Security
• Ensure ITIL procedures are adhered to and monitor/actively manage the resolution of incidents, problems and change requests for Team.
• Provide guidance and support for team members to foster growth.

Your profile

• ~7 years technical IT and/or Cyber Security experience, with a focus on MS Azure.

• Extensive experience understanding, impact assessing and implementing of Azure IAM roles, policies, security groups, NACL’s, encryption etc. 
• Extensive experience using data-in-transit / certificate management, data-at-rest and key management 
• Excellent experience of Azure PaaS 
• Excellent experience using SEIM and audit logging 
• Excellent experience of data centres and remote site security 
• Excellent experience working with third party providers and managed service providers 
• Strong diagnostic & problem solving capabilities 
• Experience governing externals or managed service providers. 

• Strong understanding of cloud benefits and ideally extensive experience working with Azure. 

• Strong communication and networking skills. 
• Adept at both working autonomously and as part of a team to deliver solutions that tackle high complexity problems.

• Willingness to travel. Mostly (up to four days a month) between Germany and the UK. Global travel as required. 

• Strong motivation to continuously improve knowledge on IT and soft skill topics. 

• Ability to work closely with IT architects and project managers on both technical and planning topics in context related to the topic(s). 

• Articulate complex technical topics in an understandable manner to staff members who are not in the technical detail. 

• Understanding business and IT requirements, and translate into IT infrastructure solutions. 

Our offer

• Contributing to the Cloud and Data Centre journey from the start and influencing the operational and roadmap decisions.
• Responsibility for IT services used by all RWE staff globally.
• Dynamic environment with opportunity to own digital change and improvements.
• Daily interaction with key customers across all RWE OpCos.
• Working closely with multi-national external service providers.
• Competitive salary and benefits package plus annual discretionary bonus.
• Open and diverse company culture.
• Flexible working hours and hybrid working.

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Any questions? Vince Manning (Recruiting), +44 7585 981083, Chris Smith (specialist department), +44 7833 236064
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RWE Supply & Trading is the interface between RWE and the energy markets around the world. Approximately 2000 employees from over 50 different countries trade (renewable) electricity, (green) gas, commodities and CO2 emission allowances. The trading entity also ensures the commercial optimisation of RWE’s power plant dispatch and markets electricity from renewables.