Information Security Analyst recruitment

Information security is fully backed up by top level management and understood to be important by everyone in the company. The majority of information security work within the company is derived from real-world business and technical challenges, with little room for red tape compliance check box regimes.

The Role

The informatation security team is fairly small, but has extensive project work covering a broad scope, requiring elegant solutions to challenging problems in an ibntellectuall challenging environment. This presents an ideal opportunity to get involved with the complete spectrum of information security challenges.

The role primarily involves the following work streams:

-          Managing big data sets containing security events, and using business intelligence to it to turn the data in to more meaningful information.

-          Working closely with the DBA team to improve, manage and audit security of the existing database systems used in the production environment by business critical processes.

The role also presents the opportunity to learn and implement avant-garde security technologies and integrate them in the security framework.

The ideal information security analyst requires:

• A 2:1 degree or better in Computer Science, Engineering, Security or related disciplines from a top university.

• Thorough and methodical, with a high degree of attention to detail, and the ability to quickly understand and learn new technologies

• Be able to prove their interest, willingness and commitment to work in and learn different aspects of information security

• Experience in managing, performance tweaking, and adding business intelligence to large databases by using advanced data mining and data warehousing skills.

• Good working knowledge of and exposure to technologies used in IT infrastructure

• Excellent scripting (Powershell and Perl) skills to automate the jobs will be advantageous.

Additional training provided should there be any gaps in knowledge.

Package: Competitive base salary, excellent bonus, fun working environment, full benefits package.

Vanessa Lofts- vlofts@kaizenpartnership.co.uk for more information