Infrastructure Security Specialist

Salary: circa £50,000
Job Type: Full Time, Permanent
Location: Head Office - West Didsbury
Benefits: Competitive pension, 26 days holiday plus bank holidays, increasing with service, cycle to work scheme, season ticket loans for public transport plus much more.
You will be responsible for reporting on, maintaining and improving IT security within Great Places Housing Group. The role encompasses strategic thinking, a strong knowledge of the threat environment and mitigations, as well as hands on technical skills.
What you’ll be doing

• Day to day monitoring and administration of security controls around tooling solutions and Cloud based systems such as Office 365, Azure.
• Management and configuration of our key security systems, Crowstrike, Rapid7, Mimecast, Azure security suite & Netskope.
• Monitor the GPHG security services to ensure the patching, security controls and mechanisms are operating effectively. Investigate issues and escalate.
• Assist in delivering security reviews and the management of metrics to ensure confidentiality, integrity, standardisation and consolidation for ease of support and maintenance.
• Take ownership in obtaining information, evidence and data required to diagnose and resolve complex problems.
• Proactively analyse trends and reports to highlight potential problems.
• Take responsibility for internal and external audits, including pen testing.

What you’ll need

• Educated to degree level or equivalent or work experience demonstrating graduate level ability.
• Working towards or hold the CISSP qualification.
• Azure security engineer or similar qualification
• Experience working in information security, technology architecture or an infrastructure role.
• Experience in designing and implementing written and technical information including security policies.
• Experience in IT security incident management
• Practical knowledge of information security risks, controls and frameworks (e.g., NIST, COS or ISO27001)
• Experience of security withing Azure/Cloud environment, Mimecast or similar email security gateways, Crowdstrike or similar EDR solution and Rapid7 or similar vulnerability management tools
• Strong knowledge of common networking services and protocols

What we will need from you

• A commitment to understand the challenges and opportunities that exist in the communities in which we work. We particularly value lived experience in social housing
• A passion to advocate on behalf of people and communities
• A commitment to work in partnership with others for the benefit of Great Places
• A commitment to continuous learning and improvement
• Ability to work flexibly and when needed outside normal working hours to ensure service continuity
• An ability to work in uncertainty.
• To be professional and work with integrity, inclusivity and respect for diversity

What we give you in return for your hard work and commitment

• Pension | DC scheme (up to 10% contribution from both colleagues and Great Places)
• WPA | Healthcare auto enrolled at no contribution level with £1250 of savings available - option to increase & add family members.
• Annual leave | Start at 26 days annual leave, increasing up to 30 days + Bank Holidays
• Flexi time | Allows colleagues to achieve a healthy work life balance whilst carrying out requirement of the role. A maximum of 13 days flexi can be taken in a year.
• Greater Working | We offer Hybrid and flexible working to fit the schedule of you, so you can work to your greatest ability.
• Professional fees | The business pays the cost of one professional membership fee for each colleague.
• The Market Place | high street, restaurant & supermarket discounts, gym memberships, cycle to work, smart tech loans and much more.
• Health and wellbeing initiatives | Our colleagues enjoy wellbeing campaigns throughout the year, with activities designed around our four pillars of wellbeing, these include career wellbeing, mental wellbeing, physical wellbeing and financial wellbeing.

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