Role: SSPM Consultant
Location: Knutsford or London - (Hybrid working, 2 days on-site)
Duration: 6 Months
Day rate: £575 inside IR35
Role Description:
As an experienced SSPM Consultant, you will assist in the strategic design, implementation, and ongoing optimisation of Security Monitoring Project initiatives within the bank.
Main responsibilities:
- Apply security skills to design, build and protect enterprise systems, applications, data, assets and people.
- Provide services to safeguard information, infrastructures, applications and business against Cyber Threats
- Develop telemetry solution to give full observability of malicious traffic.
- Investigate strategic XDR solution.
- Secure 3rd Party SaaS configuration - Uplift security posture management controls to reflect greater business dependency and increased targeting of third and fourth-party providers to FIS
- Work with global teams to provide consistent processes and solutions.
- Competency to lead technical and strategic conversations with respect to SSPM / CSPM and can advise partners on complex technical designs and deployments.
Key skills and experience:
- Strong Experience on public cloud Azure and AWS Cloud Platforms
- Experience in translating HLD, LLD into infra build requirements.
- Experience designing and building high-performance, secure, scalable, observable, supportable, and maintainable backend services.
- SSPM or CSPM knowledge, policies and configurations.
- API Knowledge - integration of SaaS 3rd Party applications with on-prem tooling using APIs
- Knowledge of Salesforce, ServiceNow, 0365 SaaS applications and security aspects of these applications
- SSPM experience using Microsoft Defender for Cloud and/or any experience on AppOmni
- Strong understanding of industry security framework and benchmarks such as NIST and CIS
- Previous experience with SIEM tools and integration
- Security Engineering experience
- Excellent analytical and troubleshooting skills across complex systems.
- Able to articulate complicated processes to non-technical stakeholders.
- Experience creating designs for implementation of commercial off the shelf products
- Experience of dealing with incident, problem, and change management processes.
Desirable:
- Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science or a related discipline.
- Previous experience in the financial sector
- Good awareness of Enterprise Security and Cyber Security as problem domains
- Demonstrates excellent judgment for balancing between rapid development, long-term code maintainability and supportability.
- Believes in the power of and the need for writing automated tests as part of development.
