If you have expertise in both IT and Cyber Security client facing roles this is your chance to be apart of a successful MSSP.

You will work in with your teams and clients to build up all the key elements of the company to develop their Cyber strength and to ensure your work is sustained.

You will have the opportunity to work on challenging projects, spanning all security domains for various end clients on a global scale. You must be willing to travel both nationally and internationally to meet with Clients if the need arises.

Individual learning plans and course funding is an incentive my client is not shy on throwing out. .

Key Responsibilities:

To manage and deliver cyber security projects. You will also lead engagements, manage project deliverables, timescales, budgets and client relationships.

To apply an excellent breadth of cyber security domain knowledge to consulting engagements, helping organisations to understand their cyber security challenges;

An ability to write reports to a high level is also required.

The successful candidate will:

• Maintain a strong understanding of all information security domains;
• Have comprehensive knowledge of industry standards such as NIST 800-53, SANS 20 CSC, ISO 2700 Series, PCI DSS, GDPR;
• Possess strong presentation and communication skills and be comfortable discussing cyber security topics with non-technical and business audiences;
• Have a good grasp of IT and information security technologies and products;
• Able to interface with clients of all levels;
• Be proactive, flexible and willing to travel globally.

Qualifications and certifications

• 2 years of cyber security consulting experience (client facing);
• CISSP required;
• Security certifications (CISM, CISA, CRISC, CCISO etc.) are desirable.

Huntress Search Ltd does not discriminate on the grounds of 'protected characteristics' as defined under the Equality Act and other relevant UK legislation.

Huntress Search Ltd acts as a Recruitment Agency in relation to all Permanent roles and as a Recruitment Business in relation to all Temporary roles.

PLEASE NOTE: We can only consider applications from candidates who have the right to work in the UK.

We are working with a Cyber Defence Consultancy based in Gloucester who are hiring a Cyber Security Consultant.

You will be responsible for the delivery of technical solutions for government and commercial clients, bringing their strong track-record of conducting Risk Assessments, Analysis and or Audits in either Cyber Security or Information Assurance.

You will:

• Work collaboratively with the cyber security professionals from across the skill sets represented in the Group and contracting partners, to define and deliver solutions, taking documented customer requirements and translating them into risk assessments, reviews and recommendations.
• Able to follow established governance processes and frameworks to bring the best possible value adding solutions to clients.
• Leading complex higher-risk projects and tasks where solutions may have no precedence.

Must have:

• Experience in working as a technical subject matter expert in project teams.
• Self-motivated, articulate, with good verbal and written communication skills.
• Be organized and have exceptional time and personal management.
• Have good technical knowledge of Information Assurance Frameworks and experience across multiple platforms and technologies.
• CPP SIRA certified or hold other similarly recognised industry standard qualifications and certificates such as IS2 or ISO certificates.
• Experience of working in Government/Public Sector client engagements within a risk and assurance arena by delivering technical solutions.
• Team player both as part of virtual and solutions team.
• Expected to have 5-8 years of experience in this field.

Education and Experience:

The successful candidate will work under a Team Leader and the Group Lead and contribute to growing the professional expertise of cyber security capability. The successful candidate will be deployed on a number projects working into primarily the Cyber Integrated Project Team but also others across the business. The successful candidate will be expected to undertake some travel to client sites. The majority of the team is located at the Gloucester site but can be flexible on the home office location. The successful candidate will be expected to identify and successfully deliver against opportunities that will support the Cyber and Intelligence Group's development.

Huntress Search Ltd does not discriminate on the grounds of 'protected characteristics' as defined under the Equality Act and other relevant UK legislation.

Huntress Search Ltd acts as a Recruitment Agency in relation to all Permanent roles and as a Recruitment Business in relation to all Temporary roles.

PLEASE NOTE: We can only consider applications from candidates who have the right to work in the UK.

We are working with a global Consultancy who are hiring an IAM Architect to support their enterprise clients implement new IAM solutions.

The candidate should have good knowledge on the SailPoint IIQ, Oracle IAM 11g / 12g product suite with at least 14 years' of experience in IAM field. The candidate should have done 5 to 6 of end to end IAM solution implementation at least one in 11g. As an IAM architect, you should have good exposure to all the Oracle IAM product suite, CA IAM product suite and IBM IAM product suite.

As Identity & Access Management Architect, you will participate in projects at the following levels:

• Implementation, Design and Architect of complex IAM solutions for large scale customers across various industry verticals
• Understanding the business requirements in terms of Access and Identify Management
• Design of the right strategic enterprise solution architecture in terms of application , data and security
• Collaborate with Infrastructure designers
• Document the Architecture solution
• Evaluate the low level design document
• Supervise and own the solution implementation in terms of install, configure and integration of SailPoint, Oracle IAM 11g / 12g product suite (OHS, Webgate, OAM, OIM, OID), CA IAM Product Suite, IBM ISAM / ISIM, PING Identity Product Suite with in scope target applications.
• Guide the team in trouble shooting the issues faced during the product implementation.
• Demonstrate the capabilities in understanding the clients' business environment and map the requirements into IAM solutions and proactively suggest alternatives as and when required

Required Skills

• Experience inArchitecting, Designing and Implementation of at least two of the following Oracle Identity and Access Management Solutions:
  • SailPoint IIQ
  • Oracle Identity Manager 11g/12g
  • Oracle Access Manager 11g/12g

• Excellent knowledge and understanding of other IAM products:

• CA SiteMinder
• CA Identity Manager
• IBM Security Access Manager (ISAM)
• IBM Security Identity Manager (ISIM)

• Excellent knowledge and understanding ofLDAP concepts and working experience with at least few of the following directories:
  • Oracle Internet Directory/Oracle Virtual Directory
  • Sun Directory Server
  • Active Directory
  • Tivoli Directory Server
  • Novell Directory Server
  • CA Directory

• Should have the ability to understand customer scenario and requirements (may include integration situations) and be capable of suggesting solutions.
• Create HLD & LLD documentation
• Should have good knowledge on current IDM, Strong Authentication and PKI (Public Key Infrastructure) technologies and products
• Should be familiar with RFI & RFP process and have experience in creating solution response based on RFP needs.

Qualifications:

• Many years of strong IAM implementation experience
• Masters in computer science
• Strong oral, written communications skills
• Customer Facing Exposure is must
• CISSP certification is a bonus
• Open to travel requirements

Huntress Search Ltd does not discriminate on the grounds of 'protected characteristics' as defined under the Equality Act and other relevant UK legislation.

Huntress Search Ltd acts as a Recruitment Agency in relation to all Permanent roles and as a Recruitment Business in relation to all Temporary roles.

PLEASE NOTE: We can only consider applications from candidates who have the right to work in the UK.

We are working with a leading start up Cyber Threat Intelligence Consultancy who due to consistent commercial wins are expanding. Based in London, the successful candidate will play a key role in gathering information on Cyber threats and turning it into actionable intelligence, enabling clients to better protect themselves.

Tasks will include:

• Project managing bespoke engagements for clients
• Shaping client requirements into appropriate outputs at all stages of the intelligence cycle
• Taking responsibility for overseeing various aspects of our intelligence subscription service
• Proactively identifying new opportunities to develop our subscription and bespoke services
• Peer reviewing content produced by team members to enhance the quality of outputs
• Contributing to the development of our technical collection infrastructure

There will also be considerable flexibility for the right candidate to go beyond this remit and shape the role in the pursuit of the company's goals, in the way they see fit.

Experience

• Have several years experience in cyber threat intelligence, including experience managing the production of bespoke deliverables
• Understand the commercial aspects of delivering
• Be able to use their initiative and understanding to manage their own research efforts, and those of other team members
• Communicate efficiently, both verbally and in writing. Additional languages are also desirable, especially where specifically relevant to areas of heightened cyber threat
• Maintain excellent standards in their work and show a high degree of attention to detail
• Be competent with the Microsoft Office suite.
• Experience with additional research tools and software related to intelligence collection and analysis is also desirable.
• Experience with programming in any scripting language is also desirable.
• Have relevant formal qualifications (i.e. SANS, CCTIM, CISSP)

If you believe this is an opportunity where you can excel and grow personally and professionally then apply within for a confidential chat with one of our Consultants.

Huntress Search Ltd does not discriminate on the grounds of 'protected characteristics' as defined under the Equality Act and other relevant UK legislation.

Huntress Search Ltd acts as a Recruitment Agency in relation to all Permanent roles and as a Recruitment Business in relation to all Temporary roles.

PLEASE NOTE: We can only consider applications from candidates who have the right to work in the UK.

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer.

Our client, a global leader and Pioneer for nearly four decades within their market are looking for a Cloud Infrastructure Engineer to join their Cloud & Infrastructure team supporting their migration onto the cloud.

They're looking for an experienced infrastructure engineer with an in depth understanding of cloud services, mainly AWS. This opportunity will require and allow you to utilise your experience with overseeing infrastructure hosted by VMware, AWS and additional cloud platforms. The successful candidate will play a pivotal part in the adoption and transformation to the cloud, whilst supporting the migration to virtual machine in VSphere to AWS or additional cloud platforms. The versatility in this role will require experience working with project teams delivering engineering and operational support.

Required Knowledge and skills:

• Technical expertise in VMWare vSphere 6.x
• Expert technical expertise in Storage systems management - NetApp
• Experience engineering and managing fiber channel SAN environments
• Strong Linux infrastructure background and hands on exposure to Cloud and automation technologies.
• Automation experience leveraging tools such as Puppet, Ansible, Salt, or SCCM
• Professional scripting experience with languages such as PowerShell, Python, and BASH
• Vendor certifications from VMware, Red Hat, and NetApp are a plus
• A proficiency in Linux systems administration and server configuration (e.g. CentOS/RHEL)

Desirable Knowledge and Skills:

• Ansible, CloudFormation or Chef
• OpenShift
• ITIL Certifications - Foundation & Service Operations
• Knowledge / experience of GCP, Azure
• Server Capacity Management
• Any Cloud certifications
• Confluence / SharePoint
• Hyper-converged platforms such as Nutanix
• Networking

Huntress Search Ltd does not discriminate on the grounds of 'protected characteristics' as defined under the Equality Act and other relevant UK legislation.

Huntress Search Ltd acts as a Recruitment Agency in relation to all Permanent roles and as a Recruitment Business in relation to all Temporary roles.

PLEASE NOTE: We can only consider applications from candidates who have the right to work in the UK.

This is your chance to work with a leading Information and cyber security provider who are looking to increase their Red Team capability. You will have the ability to penetrate and test internal networks whilst also maintaining the ability to respond to a full scale attack before it's even begun.

Role Responsibilities

• Perform formal and comprehensive application and infrastructure penetration testing assessments, following industry best practices
• Provide well-written and concise technical and non-technical reports, prepared to the highest standards of written English
• Perform vulnerability assessments and provide findings with remediation actions
• Support with various client pre-engagement interactions, including scoping activities and proposal drafting
• Manage and deliver penetration testing project activities within strict deadlines
• Travel to client sites as required
• Research application and infrastructure components within the wider team to identify new vulnerabilities and follow responsible disclosure
• Take part in a variety of other information security projects as and when required

Qualifications

• Proven industry experience in application and infrastructure penetration testing
• Strong understanding of OWASP, PTES and other penetration testing methodologies
• Strong knowledge in testing mobile applications (iOS/Android)
• Knowledge of how modern web apps are designed, developed and deployed across different platforms
• Strong knowledge in preparing and launching social engineering campaigns.
• Ability to program or script in your preferred language
• Good understanding of network and OS principles
• Solid knowledge of various technologies, including associated security vulnerabilities and exploits
• Relevant security qualifications (such as OSCP, CREST CRT, TIGER)
• Superb written and spoken English skills are vital for compiling high-quality reports and liaising with clients

If you think you are up for a new challenge of deterring the current Cyber Security attacks then apply now!

Huntress Search Ltd does not discriminate on the grounds of 'protected characteristics' as defined under the Equality Act and other relevant UK legislation.

Huntress Search Ltd acts as a Recruitment Agency in relation to all Permanent roles and as a Recruitment Business in relation to all Temporary roles.

PLEASE NOTE: We can only consider applications from candidates who have the right to work in the UK.

My Client, an exciting multinational technology company, is seeking a Splunk Administrator for a minimum 6 month contract engagement. SC clearance is a pre-requisite.

Based in Hampshire, the Splunk Administrator's responsibility will be the build and support of the Splunk environment. The Splunk Administrator will administer and configure the Enterprise Splunk monitoring suites, application performance management tools and log correlation tools to ensure system up-time. The successful candidate will also provide system performance analysis, and troubleshooting for production Windows server environment.

This will be your chance to serve as a Subject Matter Expert and support the IT Operations monitoring team.

There is also an attractive daily rate up for offer.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS

• Design system solutions and implement new features whilst resolving complex incidents and problems.
• Administer Splunk users and roles.
• Create advanced searches, reports, dashboards and visualizations.
• Create field aliases, lookups, and calculated fields.
• Create and manage alerts.
• Implement and configuring index and source types as well as Splunk Apps.
• Install and manage forwarders, indexers, search heads.
• Create and manage configuration files like inputs props, transforms, and lookups.
• Deploy, configure and update Indexers, Search Heads, Heavy Forwarders, and Universal Forwarders
• Configure/optimize current Indexer configuration, Search Heads/Search Head Clusters, Deployment server & Monitoring Console.
• Configure/optimize current storage as needed.

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS

• Bachelor's Degree in Business Technology, Management Information Systems preferred.
• Must have three (3) years' experience in Splunk Systems Administration enterprise level environment.
• Experience with managing a Splunk in a windows environment.
• Linux administration or Splunk cloud administration experience.
• Experience with planning for future Splunk growth, either on premise or cloud.
• Splunk Certification is preferred but not essential.
• SIEM knowledge is a plus.
• Must have strong hardware and software troubleshooting skills.
• Must have working knowledge of Windows server administration.
• Must have working knowledge of Active Directory.
• Must have general understanding of IT network and security procedures and standards.
• Must have strong analytical and problem solving skills.
• Must have exceptional communication and interpersonal skills in order to effectively communicate with a wide range of personnel.
• Must have working knowledge of infrastructure management software such as VMWare vSphere, Hyper V, Citrix, Veeam and the like.
• Must have working knowledge of server administration such as Microsoft Windows Active Directory, System Centre Configuration Manager (SCCM), Systems Centre Operations Manager (SCOM), IIS, Windows updates, backups, and reboots.

Huntress Search Ltd does not discriminate on the grounds of 'protected characteristics' as defined under the Equality Act and other relevant UK legislation.

Huntress Search Ltd acts as a Recruitment Agency in relation to all Permanent roles and as a Recruitment Business in relation to all Temporary roles.

PLEASE NOTE: We can only consider applications from candidates who have the right to work in the UK.

We are working with a leading Insurance group who are looking to add to their Cyber Security capability in London. The SOC Analyst will work closely with the Information Security Officer, Infrastructure team and outsourced MSSP. You will have autonomy and be looked towards to help build the Cyber capability for the UK, with a look forward to building a team in the future.

Key Responsibilities

• Monitor Security Operations Centre (SOC) generated security events and alerts
• Perform initial analysis to determine security events and alerts requiring immediate response and escalation
• Triage confirmed security events and alerts, in coordination with Tier 2 and Tier 3 network and infrastructure engineers, following documented procedures
• Develop processes and response procedures to improve overall SOC functions
• Develop, refine, maintain, and regularly test the Incident Response Plan
• Monitor external data sources to maintain currency of information security threat condition and determine which security issues may have an impact on the enterprise
• Maintain both internal and external vulnerability scanning tools and report on their findings

Technical Skills

• Strong understanding of security and network incident response protocols
• Good understanding of malware, including APT and other emerging threats
• Strong understanding of information security principles as it relates to system, network, internet security (i.e. ports, protocols, system hardening and system functions analysis)
• Indicators of Compromise, understanding malware analysis, VA scanners, SIEM tools
• Sound understanding of networking administration and troubleshooting (e.g. TCP/IP, WAN/LAN and WiFi)
• Good understanding of firewalls and IDS/IPS systems
• Good understanding Citrix platform
• Good understanding of Active Directory
• Intermediate understanding of virtualization
• Intermediate understanding of databases (SQL in particular)

Qualifications

• Desirable qualifications for the role include CompTIA A , CompTIA A , Network , Security , Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH), GIAC, GCIH, CISSP)

Huntress Search Ltd does not discriminate on the grounds of 'protected characteristics' as defined under the Equality Act and other relevant UK legislation.

Huntress Search Ltd acts as a Recruitment Agency in relation to all Permanent roles and as a Recruitment Business in relation to all Temporary roles.

PLEASE NOTE: We can only consider applications from candidates who have the right to work in the UK.

This is your chance to take the next step into a more senior position. Working as an Integral member in my clients SOC you will be able to use SIEM tools to monitor and investigate client's security environments. You will place an emphasis on vulnerability assessments and remediation.

The role

• Analysis and investigation of alerts from SIEM and AI tools
• Vulnerability Scanning, reporting and prioritising
• Utilise Intrusion Prevention solutions to monitor and alert on potential breaches.
• Creation of custom IPS signature on occasion.
• Use packet-capture tools
• Use Threat Intelligence Services to identify potential new threats and develop new mitigation's.
• Working with customer security teams to detect, contain and eradicate threats.
• An understanding of Penetration Testing.

• You will be Analytical, Inquisitive and have a strong passion for Cyber Security.
• You will have the ability to lead.
• Have a passion for self development and development of your team.

This is a good opportunity to be involved in one of the fastest growing MSSP's in Central London.

You will have the chance to test and develop your skills whilst mentoring the junior members of the team.

If this role sounds like you then go ahead and apply now.

Huntress Search Ltd does not discriminate on the grounds of 'protected characteristics' as defined under the Equality Act and other relevant UK legislation.

Huntress Search Ltd acts as a Recruitment Agency in relation to all Permanent roles and as a Recruitment Business in relation to all Temporary roles.

PLEASE NOTE: We can only consider applications from candidates who have the right to work in the UK.

Cloud software Engineer

Blackthorn Trace has partnered with a Global Software company, looking for someone to fit into their Cloud engineering team, the right candidate will have a strong background within developing, integrating and migrating both new and current solutions. The successful candidate will have a strong passion for technology, be open minded and have good technical skills to help solve and troubleshoot large scale Cloud deployments.

If you are interested and experienced in Cloud technologies then we would like to talk with you about being part of our team.

Responsibilities

• Analyze requirements, design, document and create automated tests for production level code
• Assist in the agile planning activities by breaking down epics and providing estimates for stories and tasks
• Highly self-motivated, organized with excellent written and verbal communication
• Interface and work well with other engineering groups as part of day to day activities
• Code, review and maintain software for Cloud Services and applications of significant size and complexity
• Extend and improve test automation across functional and performance boundaries
• Solve production issues that need reproduction, root cause analysis, and coding
• A positive attitude towards teamwork, keen to share knowledge and collaborate effectively to achieve team goals
• A self-starter and quick learner having the ability to prioritise work from many sources and deal with distractions

Skills & Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/Engineering or equivalent
• 5 years software development experience
• Experienced in high level programming: e.g. Python, Java
• Knowledge of scripting languages: e.g. Perl, Bash
• Database knowledge and experience: e.g. MySQL
• Data storage and retrieval strategies including BigData project solutions
• Understanding of security concepts: encryption, secure application development, defensive programming, software vulnerabilities and exploits, general issues in web security
• Demonstrate experience developing and using RESTful API interfaces
• Public Cloud development and technology solution integration (AWS)
• Knowledge of Cloud technologies and networking concepts (HTTP, SSL, TCP/IP)
• Experience of operational monitoring tools: e.g. Datadog, Prometheus
• Development experience on a Linux/Unix platform

Desirable Skills

• Knowledge of CI/CD tools and software pipelines
• Docker containers
• Experience as a team lead
• High availability concepts and disaster recovery
• Firewall administration and low level networking

Huntress Search Ltd does not discriminate on the grounds of 'protected characteristics' as defined under the Equality Act and other relevant UK legislation.

Huntress Search Ltd acts as a Recruitment Agency in relation to all Permanent roles and as a Recruitment Business in relation to all Temporary roles.

PLEASE NOTE: We can only consider applications from candidates who have the right to work in the UK.