E-mail Security Expert

AXA Group Operations; Paris; Sur place; EUR 50 000 - 75 000; Plein temps

Avantages offerts par ce poste

Diversity & Inclusion initiatives

Equal opportunities in employment

Collaborative work environment

Résumé du poste

AXA Group Operations is seeking a Secure Email Engineer to enhance their cybersecurity posture. This role involves advising on product strategy, managing technical activities, and leading incident resolutions in email gateway operations.

The ideal candidate will have over 5 years of experience in cybersecurity, strong leadership skills, and will work closely with various teams and C-level executives. The position is based in Paris, and offers a diverse and inclusive work environment.

Qualifications

• 5+ years experience in technical IT positions, especially in cybersecurity.
• Strong communication skills in English, both spoken and written.
• Ability to lead and support technical discussions with various teams.

Responsabilités

• Advise on product strategy and lifecycle for the Secure Email product.
• Support and manage daily operations related to email gateway incidents.
• Prepare technical documentation and procedures for BAU teams.

Connaissances

Cybersecurity knowledge

Email security and delivery

Strong communication skills

Collaboration and leadership

Outils

DNS

Firewalling

Antimalware

Description du poste

Where will you be in the organization?

You will join the Group Security division, defining the security standards to be applied by AXA entities, overseeing the overall security posture across the Group and providing centralized services to support entities (Crisis Management, Security Operations Centre, etc.). Throughout AXA Group, the security community is composed of 1000 security professionals, working daily to protect our customers, operations, brand and people. To achieve this, we have gathered our three security disciplines: Information Security, Physical Security and Operational Resilience.

Our Main Missions

• Monitor the Security Threat Landscape
• Define and oversee Security Standards and Strategy implementation across the Group
• Drive local security objectives with C-Level executive (COO, CIO, CTO, CFO…) of AXA entities
• Ensure the security of Group Operations as an entity
• Provide centralized security services and products to AXA entities

The department / team

The AXA Cyber Defense department provides AXA Group with a cybersecurity solution: the teams deliver operational security services to protect, detect and respond to cyber threats that could impact the AXA Group. The team also ensures that Security principles are used, and that Products development and projects are aligned with Security strategy frameworks, as delivered by Group Security.

Part of it, into the “Network & Messaging product” team, an email gateway solution to secure and filter all the emails to and from Internet: this solution is entitled Secure Email, which is currently based on Proofpoint vendor.

The product supports around 180,000 users, all AXA Group Operation datacentres and more than 40 operational companies.

The product is at the crossroad of major AXA GO programs and exposure of the product implies high visibility across the group.

About The Job

As part of the Cyber Defense, the “Secure Email” engineer is responsible for the support of any activities related to the global product.

Main missions

As senior Email Gateway expert you must have technical experience email security and delivery, strong collaboration, and customer relation skills to carry out all responsibilities below.

Responsibilities

• Technically advise and support SE Product management on the ownership and definition of the Product Strategy, roadmap, and lifecycle to ensure to serve the security objectives.
• Technically advise, lead, and support technical discussions with Group security related to any topics related to the product.
• Technically advise, lead, and support any technical activity and improvement that may be set up on the Proxy Product and related to:
• Policy configurations
• Security reports requirement (who, what, when, how)
• Performance improvement
• Automation
• New features
• To support and advise the BAU service provider (Cap Gemini) on some level 3 activities and work closely with their L2 support teams to technically lead and advise them on their daily activities.
• To support, lead and manage incidents resolution related to mail gateway daily operations.
• Support and technically advise on new customers’ demands and assess the technical set‑up on gateways configurations to answer the need.
• Prepare technical documentations and procedures to support the overall projects and BAU teams.
• Analyze user or application email activities for security purpose.
• To head up on the integration of the email gateway product with the overall AXA environment.

More Than a Very Strong Technical Competence, We Need Strong Leadership And Team Spirit As You Will Be In Relation With Many Teams

• Present product strategy to C-level.
• Work closely with CyberDefense teams on security request and issue.
• Work closely with project teams on AXA program, cloud migrations, etc.
• Work closely with vendor and provider to challenge, support, and align their service to the need.
• Work closely with others AXA product for any interaction that proxy may have with their own product.
• Work closely with workplace support teams to support email delivery issues.

Expected Skills & Experience

• Good technical knowledge and experience in cybersecurity in general.
• IT standard technologies: DNS, Firewalling, Antimalware.
• +5 years experience in technical IT positions.
• Communication skills – exhibits strong skills in listening, spoken and written communication in English.
• Openness and reaching out – strong human relationship skills, exhibit curiosity and can see opportunities in situations, not just problems.
• International profile.

What We Offer

We bring together the expertise, cultural diversity and creativity of over 8,000 employees worldwide and we’re committed to equal opportunities in all aspects of employment (gender, LGBT+, disabled persons, or people of different origins) and to promoting Diversity & Inclusion by creating a work environment where all employees are treated with dignity and respect, and where individual differences are valued.