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

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.

We are responsible for

• Engineering : Improving services & products to meet business needs. Design, consultancy, standard setting and 3rd line support.
• Automation & Development : accelerating & improving services through end-to-end automation & high quality code development
• Operations : daily operational support & financial management, including operational availability, deployment patching, incident resolution, request fulfilment.

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.