- Company Name
- Global Switch
- Job Title
- Cyber Security Engineer
- Job Description
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Job Title: Cyber Security Engineer
Role Summary
Engineer responsible for protecting digital assets, detecting and mitigating threats, and enforcing effective technical security controls to maintain confidentiality, integrity, and availability of systems and data.
Expectations
- Implement and maintain security best practices that align with regulatory frameworks and business objectives.
- Lead incident response, vulnerability management, and ongoing audits to ensure continuous improvement of the security posture.
Key Responsibilities
- Develop, enforce, and update security policies, procedures, and guidelines for all systems.
- Author and maintain comprehensive documentation: security configurations, incident reports, audit findings, compliance certifications, and risk assessments.
- Provide strategic recommendations to align security practices with evolving regulations (GDPR, ISO 27001, NIST).
- Perform continuous vulnerability identification, prioritisation, and remediation across infrastructure, applications, and endpoints.
- Triage security alerts and events; apply containment, eradication, and recovery actions.
- Act as escalation point for high‑severity incidents for Service Desk and SOC.
- Proactively monitor system performance and security logs using SIEM tools to detect anomalies.
- Track and analyse KPIs such as MTTD, MTTR, vulnerability closure rates, and audit metrics.
Required Skills
- Proficiency in Azure and Microsoft 365 security – identity and access management, conditional access, secure cloud configuration.
- Hands‑on experience with Microsoft Defender suite (Defender for Endpoint, Office 365, Identity).
- Design and implement Data Loss Prevention (DLP) strategies across endpoints, email, and cloud.
- Expertise with vulnerability scanning tools (Qualys, Tenable, Rapid7).
- Implement technical controls: network segmentation, encryption, MFA, endpoint hardening.
- Secure OT/ICS/SCADA environments, ensuring compliance with industry standards.
- Knowledge of global data protection regulations (GDPR, PCI DSS, SOC 2) and security frameworks (ISO 27001).
- Strong analytical, communication, and collaboration skills.
Required Education & Certifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Security, or related field.
- Professional certifications preferred: CISSP, CISM, CCSP, or equivalent.
- Microsoft Certified: Azure Security Engineer Associate and Microsoft 365 Security Administrator role‑based certification.