Senior Cyber Security Engineer

Job Description:

Senior Cyber Security Engineer

Location: Flexible – Staines (TW18 3DZ) or Salford (M50 3SP)  

Flexible / Hybrid working.

Permanent

£60,300 - £73,000 (Neg depending on experience & location)

10% Bonus (Company & Performance related)

Full time – 37.5 hours per week

Occasional on-call duties as needed

We make health happen

At Bupa, we’re passionate about technology. With colleagues, customers, patients and residents in mind you’ll have the opportunity to work on innovative projects and make a real impact on their lives.

Right from the start you’ll become part of our digital strategy, joining us on our journey and developing yourself along the way.

As a Level 3 Security Engineer, you'll play a crucial role in shaping and maintaining Bupa's enterprise security framework. Your responsibilities will include ensuring the functionality of security tools and systems, maintaining and enhancing security measures and protocols, overseeing the performance of monitoring and reporting devices and improving security strategies, guidelines and rule sets.

How you’ll help us make health happen:

• Configure, implement, and manage security hardware and software systems across On-Premise and Cloud/SAAS solutions.

• Take accountability for assigned tools and services.

• Develop playbooks, policies, and custom rulesets; perform tool tuning and whitelisting to enhance security.

• Contribute to strategies for responding to and recovering from security incidents and breaches.

• Lead validation and testing of hardware and software solutions to ensure compliance with security standards.

• Monitor and manage security systems for optimal performance, including timely patching and updates.

• Collaborate with vendors, system designers, and architects to develop technical solutions that meet security requirements.

• Act as a subject matter expert, providing technical advice and contributing to security policy design and implementation.

• Work with product management teams to ensure security milestones are met within delivery/sprint timelines.

• Mentor team members, sharing knowledge and support.

• Automate processes wherever possible and challenge non-automated processes.

• Understand business needs and work closely with key stakeholders.

• Implement and deploy security policies; create technical security standards based on policy objectives and requirements.

• Continuously learn and adapt to new technologies, staying updated on emerging security threats and trends.

Key Skills / Qualifications needed for this role:

Required Skills:

• Strong interpersonal skills for partnering with IT and business stakeholders at all levels.

• Diverse IT background with experience in BAU support and project-based environments, including End-User Computing, Hosting, and Networks.

• Experience in a product-based environment with demonstrated Agile working practices.

• Proficiency in cloud technologies (Azure, AWS, GCP) is highly beneficial.

• Skilled in network troubleshooting and issue resolution.

• Hands-on experience with Security Logging & Monitoring.

• Familiarity with intrusion techniques at both perimeter and host levels.

• Experience with automation tooling.

• Hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code (e.g., Hashicorp, Terraform).

• Hands-on experience with KQL.
  
  Advantageous experience includes:

  • Infrastructure as Code

  • DLP

  • SIEM Tools

  • Vulnerability Management systems

  • Network security tools

  • AV/EDR Solutions

  • M365/Defender 365

  • Microsoft Sentinel

  • KQL

  • Purview/EOP

  • Firewalls/Proxies

  • Scripting abilities

Qualifications:
• Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) or equivalent certification.
• Certified Microsoft SC 200/500/900

Benefits

Our benefits are designed to make health happen for our people. Viva is our global wellbeing programme and includes all aspects of our health – from mental and physical, to financial, social and environmental wellbeing. We support flexible working and have a range of family friendly benefits.

Joining Bupa in this role you will receive the following benefits and more:

• 25 days holiday, increasing through length of service, with option to buy or sell

• Bupa health insurance as a benefit in kind

• An enhanced pension plan and life insurance

• Annual performance-based bonus

• Onsite gyms or local discounts where no onsite gym available

• Various other benefits and online discounts

Why Bupa?

We’re a health insurer and provider. With no shareholders, our customers are our focus. Our people are all driven by the same purpose – helping people live longer, healthier, happier lives and making a better world. We make health happen by being brave, caring and responsible in everything we do.

We encourage all of our people to “Be you at Bupa”, we champion diversity, and we understand the importance of our people representing the communities and customers we serve.  That’s why we especially encourage applications from people with diverse backgrounds and experiences.

Bupa is a Level 2 Disability Confident Employer. This means we aim to offer an interview/assessment to every disabled applicant who meets the minimum criteria for the role. We’ll make sure you are treated fairly and offer reasonable adjustments as part of our recruitment process to anyone that needs them.

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