Security Ops Engineer.

Job Purpose

SecOps engineers are responsible for protecting an organization's infrastructure, applications and data from security threats. They use their expertise in security standards and best practices as well as network architecture to develop and implement effective security solutions.

*This role will need to support both on daily IT security Ops and on embedding security standards in new developments. The required profile should be strong in one of these 2 domains (daily operations/development integration), and should have a fundamental understanding & potential to learn the full scope of the other, so that time allocation between the 2 domains can be flexible.

ACCOUNTIBILITIES

• Support to analyze risk landscape of CGC to research potential weaknesses and find ways to counter them
• Understand software, hardware, and network needs while adjusting them according to our business environment
• Be an effective part of the team who will develop & implement use cases, best practices and security standards for the organization
• Perform a wide range of Security administration duties including installations, debugging, maintenance, upgrades, and general support for security and network equipment such as firewalls.
• Test company software, firmware against defined security policies and seek improvements on a continuous basis.
• Assist fellow employees with software, hardware or IT needs
• Provide emergency 24 x 7 on-call support on a rotating basis.
• Backup security configuration.
• Perform regular disaster recovery testing, including securities activities.

Position Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Communications Engineering or equivalent.
• 3 years total relevant experience.
• Hands-on experience in security equipment and solutions (e.g. VPN, Firewalls, NAC, EDR, and DLP).
• Ability to prioritize projects
• Comfortable working in a fast-paced environment
• Excellent communication skills
• An understanding of best practices and how to implement them at a business-wide level
• Critical thinking skills and the ability to solve problems as they arise
• Preferred basic coding skills, such as HTML, CSS, and other languages