Cloud Security Engineer

Shaw Trust; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

Shaw Trust seeks a Cloud Security Engineer to enhance its Cyber Security estate. This home-based role involves improving security posture, conducting threat analysis, and managing incident response efforts. With access to employee benefits like professional development and volunteering leave, you'll contribute to a social purpose organization focused on equality.

Benefits

25 days annual leave plus bank holidays

2 paid volunteering days per year

Enhanced pension scheme after 6 months

Life Assurance at 3 times salary

Access to learning and development opportunities

Health and Wellbeing initiatives

Flexible working opportunities

Qualifications

• Experience with cyber resilience tools and protocols.
• Ability to conduct proactive risk assessments.
• Strong analytical skills in threat detection.

Responsibilities

• Support the Head of Cyber Security and Infrastructure.
• Enhance internal security posture and mitigate risks.
• Conduct threat detection and incident response operations.

Skills

Cyber Security

Threat Analysis

Risk Assessment

Incident Response

Cloud Security

Education

Technical background in Cyber Security

Tools

MS Defender

Sentinel

Azure

Job description

"Shaw Trust promotes team spirit, inclusiveness and it is an organisation where everybody is somebody. I am proud to be part of this great organisation."

At Shaw Trust we believe everyone has the right to live a decent and dignified life and an opportunity for rewarding work. We are a social purpose organisation challenging inequality and breaking down barriers to enable social mobility.

For us being part of the solution is about creating the conditions for this to happen, advocating and delivering services that make a real difference. Working in partnership not competition, we are part of an eco-system of purpose-led organisations, striving for a fairer, more equal society centred on opportunity for all.

Purpose

The Cloud Security Engineerwill support the Head of Cyber Security and Infrastructure overseeing and strengthening the Cyber Security estate at Shaw Trust. Adhering to the Cyber Assessment Framework, this role will continuously improve our internal security posture, identifying, assessing, and mitigating cyber security risks, in accordance with laws, regulations, and industry standards.

They will be responsible to leverage and optimise a number of tools including, MS Defender, Sentinel, Azure and our SOC partner to enhance cyber resilience, conduct threat analysis and proactive risk assessments to design effective controls.

They will support the Group's Cyber Security operations function, by designing and day-to-day delivery of threat intelligence, threat detection, incident response, vulnerability management and ethical hacking capabilities.

They will play a key role in the Technology Directorate, to improve cyber resilience, reporting and effectiveness.

As a Cloud Security Engineer, you will have a technical background and are looking to specialise in offering exceptional support and the effective operation of the technology infrastructure by means of administering, supporting and delivering security in the cloud infrastructure.

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Location:

You will be home based

Employee Benefits

As an employee of Shaw Trust as well as positively impacting people's lives, you will have access to the following benefits:

• 25 days annual leave per year (plus bank holidays), with incremental increases post 3 years' service up to 28 days, and the option to purchase additional holiday
• 2 days paid volunteering leave each year
• An enhanced pension scheme after 6 months
• Life Assurance at 3 times your annual salary rate
• Access to a suite of learning and development opportunities including paid for apprenticeship and masters' levels qualifications, and management development programmes
• Opportunities to connect with our employee diversity networks (LGBTQ+ Support Network, Racial Equality Network, Disability Equality Network, Neurodiversity Peer Support Network, Women's Network, MANaging Network, Menopause Network Group)
• Health and Wellbeing initiatives including internal support, employee assistance programme and health cash plan
• Opportunity to request flexible working from day one

Our Strategy

To find out more about Shaw Trusts aims in our 2030 Strategic Directive available here: https://www.shawtrust.org.uk/content/uploads/2020/09/Vision-2030-Strategic-Directive-5-9.pdf

Join a diverse and inclusive organisation

Shaw Trust is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive working environment, where every employee, regardless of their background or lived experience, feels that they belong and can progress in their career.

In addition;

• We are proud to be certified as an employer who meets the National Equality Standard, the accepted standard for inclusiveness in business across the UK.
• We are Disability Confident Leaders, support the guaranteed interview scheme and use of the government's Access to Work scheme.
• Living our values, we are keen to reflect the diversity of UK society at every level within our organisation.

We welcome applications from all sections of the community including from people with lived experience and/or knowledge of disability or social exclusion.

If you have accessibility requirements and/or would like further information about the role, please contact: [e-mail]

Shaw Trust reserve the right to close this vacancy early if sufficient applications are received.

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