Cyber Security Engineer (we have office locations in Cambridge, Leeds & London)

Company Description

Genomics England partners with the NHS to provide whole genome sequencing diagnostics. We also equip researchers to find the causes of disease and develop new treatments – with patients and participants at the heart of it all.

Our mission is to continue refining, scaling, and evolving our ability to enable others to deliver genomic healthcare and conduct genomic research.

We are accelerating our impact and working with patients, doctors, scientists, government and industry to improve genomic testing, and help researchers access the health data and technology they need to make new medical discoveries and create more effective, targeted medicines for everybody.

Job Description

As a Cyber Security Engineer within the Cyber Security squad, you will contribute to the standardisation of security best practices across Genomics England, using Automation and Configuration as Code to achieve this.

Working closely with Platform Engineers and Solution Architects, you will ensure the fast, smooth rollout of new designs and products, as well as assist with the deployment and maintenance of new security tools. You will not only configure and deploy security products but will be confident using them.

You will be someone with a strong Security mindset, having SOC analyst skills and experience such that you can train others.

You will also be responsible for automating security processes and ensuring AWS best practices are upheld across the Engineering Chapter ensuring AWS best practice throughout the Engineering Chapter.

Skills and Experience for Success

• Experience managing, building, and operation 3rd Party Security Software including: DarkTrace, CrowdStrike, CloudFlare.
• Hands-on experience hunting, monitoring, detecting, analysing, investigating and responding to cyber security threats.
• Competent embedding threat intel into BaU process.
• Experience using and configuring AWS Security Services (AWS Config, AWS Inspector, AWS Security Hub, AWS Guard Duty, AWS CloudTrail).
• Knowledge of Terraform and Ansible.
• Experience with CI / CD – ideally GitLab CI.
• Previous experience working in a DevOps / Squad Culture.
• Good Scripting skills - Language here is not important but what is important is that candidates are comfortable with writing AWS Lambda’s in a language of their choosing (i.e. Python or other).

Qualifications

Qualifications are not essential but any AWS, Terraform or Ansible Certifications are always helpful!

For this role being Certified in ‘AWS Certified Security – Specialty’ (https://aws.amazon.com/certification/certified-security-specialty) would be highly desirable

Additional Information

Salary from £71,000

Being an integral part of such a meaningful mission is extremely rewarding in itself, but in order to support our people, we’re continually improving our benefits package. We pride ourselves on investing in our people and supporting them to achieve their career goals, as well as offering a benefits package including:

• 30 days’ holiday (plus bank holidays), with additional days for long service awards
• A generous pension scheme of up to 15% combined contribution
• Life Assurance (3 x salary)
• Individual learning budgets for every colleague, a Blinkist account and a wide variety of courses on our portal
• A wide variety of wellness benefits including Gympass, a Headspace account, free weekly Yoga classes
• Enhanced maternity & paternity benefits
• Blended working arrangements