Security Engineer
Knutsford
As a Barclays Security Engineer, you will be accountable for developing and building Security Automations and Orchestration capabilities. You will deploy, develop and configure various Commercial off-the shelf and inhouse tooling to support key automations for Security Operations such as ServiceNow and Splunk SOAR. This will be the ideal opportunity for someone with a high degree of (hands-on) technical guidance & vision with broad subject matter expertise in security.
Barclays is one of the world's largest and most respected financial institutions, established in 1690, with a legacy of success, quality, and innovation. We offer careers that provide endless opportunity – helping millions of individuals and businesses thrive and creating financial and digital solutions that the world now takes for granted.
At Barclays, we offer a hybrid working experience that blends the positives of working alongside colleagues at our onsite locations, together with working from home. We have a structured approach where colleagues work at an onsite location on fixed, ‘anchor’, days of the week, for a minimum of two days a week or more, as set by the business area (or nearest equivalent if working part-time hours). Please discuss the working pattern requirements for the role you are applying for with the hiring manager. Please note that as we continue to embed our hybrid working environment, we remain in a test and learn phase, which means that working arrangements may be subject to change on reasonable notice to ensure we meet the needs of our business.
What will you be doing?
• Taking ownership of engineering of technical solutions across security domains, collaborating closely with security engineers and global infrastructure teams
• Creating and maintaining accurate and high quality documentation for the service as it is consumed by variety of internal service teams
• Maintaining a customer-focus on excellent service delivery
• Developing and deploying solutions to address key SecOps business requirements and design suitable solutions, challenging requirements where necessary
• Working closely with on-shore and off-shore development teams
• Liaising with a wide range of role which includes security SMEs, developers and senior management (Directors and MD’s)
• Ensuring change management processes are thorough and be prepared to present such changes at change review boards
What we’re looking for:
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills and demonstrable experience working with Software and SDKs with programming languages as Python
• Wide foundation knowledge in cloud technologies mainly in AWS, Azure, Openshift (S3, Lambda, CloudFormation, ARO, Kubernetes)
• Excellent foundational knowledge of at least one core technology domain e.g. Operating Systems, Network Security, Application Security
• Excellent overall knowledge of open source and commercial security tooling and integrations
Skills that will help you in the role:
• Intermediate/Advance level of scripting/coding ability e.g., Python, PowerShell and exposure to other cloud technologies Azure and SaaS based security solutions
• Excellent knowledge of security network architectures
• Background in computer science or engineering
• Ability to think architecturally at ‘big picture’ and able to translate this into practical security implementation
Where will you be working?
You will be based in Radbroke, Knutsford. The Barclays Technology Campus just outside Manchester is our tech command centre and a vital strategic powerhouse behind our global operations. The campus is set in a 64 acre self-contained site, in a beautiful green environment and it offers unrivalled facilities for work and for play. We have an onsite gym, as well as outdoor tennis, football and cricket areas, as well as onsite restaurant and coffee shops.
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