Senior SecOps Analyst

Synergize Consulting are currently seeking a Senior SeCops Analyst with a focus on automating security compliance checks and controls on behalf of our client, the financial regulatory body in the United Kingdom. The work will involve platform improvement, optimisation and incident management.

The work will involve platform improvement, optimisation and incident management.

The successful candidate will be SC Cleared or be willing to undergo SC Clearance.

This is an initial 12- month contract with a view to extend to be based in East London. The daily rate for this role is up to £800 depending upon experience.

Who the successful candidate will work with:

The specialist will work with the Infrastructure Product Group team, which consists of other DevOps Lead, DevOps engineers, team manager, and SecOps engineers.

What will the successful candidate work on:

Support and maintain a cloud estate (AWS) and enforce best practice security principles to manage risk. Furthermore, automate security controls (detective and preventative) in an enterprise environment.

Essential skills and experience:

• 3+ years RedHat Enterprise Linux experience, or RHCE certified RHEL7
• 2+ years experience with SELinux
• 3+ years enterprise securing AWS for large enterprises, or AWS Certified Security
• 3+ years Chef/Ansible/Puppet scripting experience, or software development background in Ruby/Python
• 3+ years as a security analyst managing security incidents in cloud estates
• 2+ years as a security architect design and implementing security solutions
• Experience using monitoring tools (Splunk, DataDog, Qualys)
• Experience in security hardening IaaS and PaaS

Nice-to-have skills and experience:

• Proven experience of implementing cloud security best practices
• Experience using dev tools (Git, Jenkins, Nexus)
• Experience in architecting a immutable CI/CD pipeline with audit trails
• ITIL Foundation certified