IT Security Assistant Vice President

Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group, Inc.; City Of London; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work

Paid leave

Private medical insurance

Life and disability insurance

Mental wellbeing network

Learning and development

Remuneration package

Job summary

SMBC Group EMEA is looking for a Security Automation Engineer to join the Security Architecture & Engineering team. The role focuses on facilitating security control configuration management and implementing automation to replace manual processes across our global IT platform, ensuring confidentiality, integrity and availability of systems.

The position requires collaboration with ITSD and other business units on a worldwide scale to safeguard data and enable secure business operations,

Qualifications

• Experience in security automation and configuration management.
• Experience with firewall policies and security controls.
• Ability to work across ITSD and wider business to safeguard data.

Responsibilities

• Facilitate security control configuration management and changes (e.g., Firewall policy).
• Build automation solutions to replace manual change processing wherever possible.
• Collaborate across the wider business globally to safeguard data and enable secure operations.

Skills

Security automation

Firewall policy

IT security

Automation tooling

Job description

SMBC: A trusted partner for the long term

Here at SMBC Group, we want to help you find the next step in your career so read on to discover if this opportunity is the one for you. We like to recognise potential in our people, so we welcome your application even when your experience doesn't perfectly align with the job description. Whilst we'll always strive to be better, we're proud of our inclusive culture, and encourage our applicants and colleagues to be their authentic, unique selves.

Who we are

United by a sense of purpose towards our customers - to be a trusted partner for the long-term - and our universal banking platform in EMEA, SMBC Group has an international growth agenda and award-winning products, meaning we provide exciting opportunities to work on a diverse range of projects and initiatives. We deliver a full suite of corporate finance products and solutions to our customers as well as investment banking and advisory services, and a range of innovative solutions in global capital markets. Read on to find out how you could enhance your skills and gain valuable experience, by joining us to support our clients transition to a sustainable future.

Role Summary

Is the next step in your career at SMBC Group EMEA? We're looking for a Security Automation Engineer for Security Architecture & Engineering to join our team. The Security Architecture and Engineering team is responsible for the technical support and management of specific InformationSecurity elements of the Bank's global IT platform, supporting colleagues in ITSDto ensure the confidentiality, integrity and availability of the Bank's systems and information. The Security Automation Engineer facilitates the review, design and implementation of security related control changes, identifying opportunities for automation in existing manual process.

Business Area

CISO Group - Security Architecture & Engineering

Position Description

The Security Automation Engineer is a technical resource within ITSD focused on facilitating security control figuration management and changes (such as Firewall policy), with a particular priority placed upon building automation solutions instead of processing change manually wherever possible. This position is critical to the core business functions of the Bank, it requires a strong and broad technical skillset, exemplary communication skills and the capacity to effectively balance operational support and strategic project requirements as part of a team. The role involves a large amount of collaboration and communication at all levels throughout the wider business on a global scale to not only safeguard confidential data but provide a platform to enable the business to function. If security systems suffer from service outages, all teams throughout the bank are at risk of potential impact, therefore uptime of responsible systems to enable secure business operations is of upmost priority.

Competencies

• Customer Focus
• Driving Change
• Driving Results
• Embraces Diversity
• Enterprise Leadership
• Judgement and Decision Making
• Risk Management
• Strategic and Visionary
• Trust and Integrity

What we offer

For all the expertise and experience you bring to help us make a difference, it's only sustainable if we support you to build your career and be your best self so we offer competitive company benefits, centred around promoting positive well-bring and work-life balance. We also believe in fostering a diverse and inclusive work environment, where all team members perspectives and contributions are valued. Initiatives in place which promote a diverse and inclusive culture and healthy work life balance include hybrid working, Sport & Social Clubs and Diversity and Inclusion networks.

• Hybrid and flexible working
• Competitive paid leave days
• Benefits to support your physical wellbeing, including private medical insurance and life and invalidity insurance
• Various policies to support your mental wellbeing, including a robust behavioural health network with counselling and coaching services
• Access a wide range of learning and development opportunities and career progression opportunities
• Ambitious remuneration package

We recognise our role as a bank to support social change and welcome all applications, including those from groups often under-represented in financial services. We value the uniqueness of professional and personal, backgrounds and perspectives as they play a vital role in continuing the sustainable growth of our organisation. We'll ensure reasonable adjustments to our recruitment process are offered due to a disability or long-term condition whenever requested.

We are committed to transparent and equitable pay practices. Compensation is determined using objective criteria, including skills, experience, and role responsibilities, and applied consistently throughout our recruitment processes. We do not request candidates' pay history and are committed to preventing unjustified pay disparities.

About SMBC

A trusted partner for the long term

United by a sense of purpose towards our customers - to be a trusted partner for the long-term - and our universal banking platform in EMEA, we deliver a full suite of corporate finance products and solutions to our customers, including corporate, structured and trade finance, leveraged finance, loan market and treasury products. We can also provide investment banking and advisory services and a range of innovative solutions in global capital markets.

Find out more about what we do and who we are at https://www.smbcgroup.com/emea/careers