Sc Cleared Senior Security Engineer

Senior Security Engineer Inside IR35
Contract Term: 6 months
Contracting Authority: Department for Education
Location: Hybrid - Manchester

*You need to hold an active SC Clearance to be eligible for this role*

As a Senior Security Engineer, your main responsibilities will be: 
•    Triage service calls related to changes needed from within Active Directory.
•    Complete technical requests required for Active Directory, following strict policies for approvals and timed access.
•    Troubleshoot and remediate any issues identified within Active Directory and related services.
•    Perform changes within all areas within Active Directory.
•    Triage service calls related to changes needed from within Entra.
•    Completing technical requests required for Entra and related services. 
•    Work with Project teams in provisioning identity access for internal and external services. 
•    Reviewing applications for ownership, and securing.
•    Work with technical and security teams in delivering changes needed to reduce identity related risks. 
•    Triage service calls related to internal certificates.
•    Review monthly reports of expiring certificates, contacting owners, and renewing if required.
•    Renewing the off-line root CA crl files when needed. 
•    Completing technical requests required for internal certificates.

You’ll have relevant experience in:
*You need to hold an active SC Clearance to be eligible for this role*
•    Technical knowledge of managing and administering Microsoft Active Directory.
•    Technical knowledge of Microsoft DNS, Group Policies, AD Sites and Services and AD trusts.
•    Understanding of security risks associated with Active Directory identities.
•    Technical knowledge of managing and administering Microsoft Entra.
•    Knowledge of Entra Connect (AAD).
•    Technical knowledge of Azure Applications, Enterprise Applications, Single-Sign On configurations, multi-factor authentication, guest users, Conditional Access Policies, Identity Protection, Password Protection and Identity Governance.
•    Understanding of security risks associated with Azure Entra identities and Access Management.
•    Technical knowledge of managing and administering Microsoft Certificates.
•    Technical knowledge of Microsoft PKI, off-line root CA, issuing servers, crl file management, certificate creations and management.

If this role sounds like something that you would be interested in, please click the link to apply or get in touch with rebecca.nolan@publicsectorresourcing.co.uk

Disability confident 
As a member of the disability confident scheme, DFE guarantees to interview all candidates who have a disability and who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy. In cases where we have a high volume of candidates who have a disability who meet all the essential criteria, we will interview the best candidates from within that group.
If you qualify for the above, please notify us on PSRapplications@publicsectorresourcing.co.uk. 
We will be in touch to discuss your suitability and arrange your Guaranteed Interview.
Should you require reasonable adjustments at any point during the recruitment process or if there is a more accessible way for us to communicate, please do let me know.

In applying for this role you acknowledge the following, this role falls in scope of the Off Payroll Working in the Public Sector legislation. Any rates of payment quoted will reflect the gross rate per day for the assignment and will be subject to appropriate taxes and statutory costs. As such the payment to the intermediary and your income resulting from this contract will be different.

Please be aware that this role can only be worked within the UK and not Overseas.