Infrastructure Security Engineer
Full-time, Permanent
Edinburgh (hybrid – likely 2 days a week in office)
£50,000 p.a starting salary
Excellent benefits – market leading Pension & Annual Leave allowance
The Organisation
This fantastic opportunity is with one of Scotland’s most vital public organisations, ensuring that Scotland’s public sector remains transparent, accountable, and corruption free – to better serve the public good. We are working with this client on an exclusive basis and they have an excellent reputation for integrity, some excellent technologists, and a good work-life balance (especially for an InfraSec role)! Few employers offer more holidays & a better pensions package. You will also have a training budget to ensure that you’re continuously learning, upskilling & growing your career.
TLDR: A worthwhile central mission, strong benefits package, & a flexible, pragmatic employer with good work-life balance.
The Job
This position is hiring for a Security Infrastructure specialist focusing on cloud & networking technologies to configure & maintain highly-secure cloud based solutions. Managing both tech & people-based defences; planning & reacting to cyber incident; analysing attack & improving future protections; working on web security & cloud connectivity.
The role has been created due to the growth of the organisation’s security capabilities & the promotion of the current Infrastructure Security Specialist. Once the successful applicant is up to speed they will be leading their own project(s).
TLDR: This position will act similar to a Tier 3 Support Engineer – problem solving complex issues that have been escalated to you by other team members. Foundational networking knowledge will be vital with transferable skills to cloud deployments. This is also a fantastic opportunity to gain more cloud experience for people with cloud interest & knowledge.
The Skills & Experience Required
* Must have deep networking knowledge across a range of associated technologies
* Firewalls & firewall rulesets
* IPS rulesets
* Proxy provisioning
* Managing & configuring VPN connections
* Treating cybersecurity as a top priority for local network & cloud environments
* Hands-on experience of Azure, Hyper-V & Office 365 are a bonus (especially with a history of O365 & Azure platform deployments).
* Strong familiarity with Microsoft tech generally
* Awereness of digital forensics/ SIEM related principles like parsing/normalisation of logs, log storage & collection, rule engine, event monitoring is advantageous
* Familiarity with ISO 27001 best practice will also be advantageous.
* The successful applicant will likely come from a technical environment where they have had to touch on multiple different technologies and problem-solve rather than specialise within a niche technology or heavily siloed team.
TLDR: Network engineers who have some experience in cloud deployments & strong general cybersecurity knowledge will be perfect candidates. User Support & Windows Server experience is useful too but strong networking expertise will be the priority.
The Tech
The technical environment includes both cloud & on-prem technologies, across firewalls & proxies. Supporting a mix of Azure & Hyper-V. Office 365 is prevalent. The formerly Citrix environment has been replaced with Azure Virtual Desktop. Currently working in Windows 10 but there will be a rollout of Windows 11 in the coming year. Microsoft Defender, Intune, & Entra all involved.
Please apply with CV to be considered