Cyber Security Engineer - Energy Sector

• 2 year fixed term contract role with aim to move into full permanent role

• 2 days a week in the London office

• £84,000 - £97,000 salary (base + car allowance) + bonus + benefits

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Our client are a leading energy company and are looking to recruit a Cyber Security Consultant/Engineer role to join their growing Cyber Security team in London.

The role isn't strictly just within the discipline of architecture or engineering but more a technical cyber security generalist to support the key day-to-day activities and major projects. The main duties of this role will be to become a technical advisor / expert and provide continued technical guidance to the Cyber team, IT teams, business and project teams to maintain a high level of cyber security compliance throughout.

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We expect the candidate to have a broad range of technical skills across the IT discipline, with experience in OT also preferred and have a strong understanding of how cycler security principles can be applied via technical solutions and technical decision making. They also need to have a good understanding or risk and compliance and advise and guide on how to technically achieve compliance. To reiterate we are not looking for a low-level technical specialist in one technology solution, but more of a broader range of cyber and technical skills to contribute and complement the rest of the Cyber Security team.

• Define and maintain security architecture principles, patterns and standards across IT and OT environments.

• Translate business and regulatory requirements into secure technical designs.

• Act as the cyber security technical expert for projects and ensure security due diligence during solution delivery.

• Provide technical security guidance to IT teams and business stakeholders.

• Lead and contribute to cyber security projects ensuring end-to-end security across the lifecycle.

• Promote and implement Cyber-by-Design principles.

• Contribute to the Architecture Review Board (ARB) to ensure solutions comply with internal controls and security frameworks.

• Maintain awareness of emerging cyber and digital technologies and identify security improvements.

• Produce and maintain cyber security technical documentation and standards.

• Support cyber security risk analysis and risk management for technical solutions.

• Act as a UK technical point of contact for assurance functions including Internal Audit, Risk Management, Legal and external auditors.