(Senior) Platform Security Engineer - AZURE d/f/m

RWE AG; Swindon; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Senior Platform Security Engineer to enhance the security of their Azure environment. In this role, you will be the go-to expert for Azure security policies and will collaborate with various teams to ensure compliance and operational excellence. This position offers the chance to influence significant decisions in a dynamic environment while working closely with global service providers. If you are passionate about cloud security and eager to drive improvements, this opportunity is perfect for you. Join a diverse team dedicated to innovation and excellence in the tech landscape.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Annual discretionary bonus

Flexible working hours

Open and diverse company culture

Opportunity for digital change

Daily interaction with key customers

Dynamic work environment

Qualifications

• 7+ years in IT/Cloud Security focusing on MS Azure.
• Experience with Azure IAM, encryption, and data management.
• Strong problem-solving and communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead Azure platform security and policy maintenance.
• Support Cyber Security Incident Response Team.
• Drive continuous service improvements and automation.

Skills

Microsoft Azure platform security

IT security policies

Azure IAM roles

Data management (encryption, key management)

Problem-solving capabilities

Communication skills

Cloud benefits understanding

Team collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in IT or related field

Tools

Azure PaaS

Azure logging tools

Job description

(Senior) Platform Security Engineer - AZURE d/f/m

Location(s):
Swindon, Wiltshire, GB, SN5 6PB
Essen, NW, DE, 45141

RWE Supply & Trading GmbH
To start as soon as possible, full time, permanent

Department Insights

Cloud and Data Center (C&DC) support servers, databases, storage, Azure Cloud & physical infrastructure for the whole of the RWE Group. This support includes round-the-clock provision of platform services and development operations in collaboration with Managed Service Provider partners.

Your responsibilities

• Senior technical expert / SME for Microsoft Azure platform security, policies and IT/general security representative for topics within the Cloud & Data Centre team’s remit.
• Be responsible for the detailed design and maintenance for support of RWE's Cloud and Data Centre (C&DC) security and policies in conjunction with other SME’s, Cyber Security, Cloud Service Providers (CSPs) and Managed Service Providers (MSPs).
• Taking a lead from Cyber Security, create and maintain forward looking roadmaps for Azure security topics.
• Communicate and define RWE IT requirements and standards to the MSP teams and ensure adherence as well as to provide technical leadership to the teams.
• Support the Cyber Security Incident Response Team (CSIRT) and MSPs to help solve Microsoft Azure related security incidents.
• Work with Cyber Security, Enterprise Architects and other SMEs to support their strategy and create supportable, secure solutions.
• Operationalise security standards, policies and tooling as described by Cyber Security, and provide input for security assessments and audits.
• Work with Azure Platform and other SMEs in consulting to application teams towards migrating workloads, remediating platform service issues, and providing relevant guidance.
• Drive continuous service improvements including automation of operational processes and remediations; especially focusing on enhancing customer experience, reducing inefficiency and duplication, and accelerating speed to delivery.
• Directly support and if appropriate run project deliveries that impact C&DC security posture.
• Ensure ITIL procedures are adhered to and monitor / actively manage the resolution of incidents, problems and change requests for C&DC.
• Provide guidance and support for team members to foster growth.

Your profile

• ~7 years technical IT and/or Cloud Security experience with a focus on MS Azure.
• Extensive experience understanding, impact assessing and implementing Azure IAM roles, policies, security groups, NACLs, encryption etc.
• Extensive experience using data-in-transit / certificate management, data-at-rest and key management.
• Experienced in use of Azure PaaS.
• Excellent experience using Azure logging.
• Experience of data centres and remote site security.
• Excellent experience working with third party providers and managed service providers.
• Excellent diagnostic and problem-solving capabilities.
• Strong communication and networking skills.
• Experience governing externals or managed service providers.
• Strong understanding of cloud benefits and ideally extensive experience working with Azure.
• Adept at both working autonomously and as part of a team to deliver solutions that tackle high complexity problems.
• Willingness to travel. Mostly (up to four days a month) between Germany and the UK. Global travel as required.
• Strong motivation to continuously improve knowledge on IT and soft skill topics.
• Ability to work closely with IT architects and project managers on both technical and planning topics in context related to the topics.
• Articulate complex technical topics in an understandable manner to staff members who are not in the technical detail.
• Understanding business and IT requirements, and translate into IT infrastructure solutions.

Advantageous, but not a must

• Knowledge and experience of interculture working.
• Open minded.
• Experience of user centric decision making.
• Self-confident speaking at all levels.
• Connecting people.
• Ready to adapt to organisational change.
• Attend IT events, summits, and other events to network with people from other companies and gain insights about new solutions and trends.
• Experience with recruitment & retention processes.

Our offer

• Contributing to the Cloud and Data Centre journey from the start and influencing the operational and roadmap decisions.
• Responsibility for IT services used by all RWE staff globally.
• Dynamic environment with opportunity to own digital change and improvements.
• Daily interaction with key customers across all RWE OpCos.
• Working closely with multi-national external service providers.
• Competitive salary and benefits package plus annual discretionary bonus.
• Open and diverse company culture.
• Flexible working hours and hybrid working.

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We look forward to meeting you!

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