Cadent Gas Ltd
Job Purpose
We're looking for a dynamic Security Engineer to join our OT Programme ensuring the safe and continuous delivery of Cyber Security Services. You'll navigate regulatory compliance and cybersecurity challenges, safeguard our internal processes, and engage with stakeholders to deliver top-notch customer service. You'll drive innovation by identifying and implementing improvements within our cybersecurity and IT teams, regularly updating security configurations to address evolving threats, and generating insightful reports. Your commitment to comprehensive documentation and Health & Safety standards will help protect our colleagues, customers, and stakeholders.
Key Responsibilities
- Support the Cyber Incident Response Team (CIRT) in high-priority incidents, root cause analysis, and engineering solutions to enhance response capabilities.
- Attend Post Incident Reviews (PIRs) and regular CIRT meetings to provide engineering insights, propose solutions, and implement improvements.
- Collaborate with teams to mitigate risks from unpatched vulnerabilities and develop engineering solutions for unpatchable vulnerabilities.
- Perform daily operations and maintenance of cybersecurity tools, integrate SIEM with various security platforms, and manage SOAR capabilities to automate incident response.
- Analyze logs, create custom alerting rules, and provide expertise in threat management, threat modeling, and developing use cases for improved security monitoring solutions.
Skills and Experience
Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Cyber Security, Information Technology, Computer Science, or a related field.
- Deep experience in Cyber Security or related fields.
- Relevant certifications such as CEH, CompTIA Sec+, CompTIA Network+ or equivalent .Technical Skills:
- Experience with SIEM tools (e.g., Splunk, QRadar, ArcSight) and SOAR platforms.
- Proficiency in integrating SIEM tools with various security platforms (Threat Intelligence, vulnerability management, Email Gateway, Entra, Firewalls).
- Strong understanding of log management, analysis, and manual log manipulation.
- Ability to develop and maintain custom parsers.
- Expertise in creating and maintaining custom alerting rules and tuning them for optimal performance.
- Knowledge of threat management, threat modelling, and identifying attack vectors.
- Experience in developing engineering solutions for vulnerabilities that cannot be patched.
- Experience with all the above with Operational Technology, SCADA and ICS. Understanding of how OT differs from IT, and how the priorities change.
- Familiarity with regulatory requirements and compliance standards related to cyber security and the energy sector.
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