Company Description
Here at esure, we’re no strangers to change. As one of the industry leaders in the insurance business, striving to become a world class digital insurer, we’re getting ready for more. It’s creating great new opportunities for innovative and talented industry professionals to join us at a pivotal point in our development.
Job Description
As a Cybersecurity Engineer working with the Security Operations Manager, you'll protect esure's information systems from breaches and cyber threats. Ideal for those passionate about cybersecurity and looking to specialize in penetration testing, your main focus will be developing technical controls to safeguard our systems while progressively engaging in and mastering penetration testing skills.
Key responsibilities:
- Security Engineering & Automation: Implement technical controls and automation for enhanced threat detection and response.
- Security Analysis & Mitigation: Conduct regular security assessments, identify vulnerabilities, and implement effective mitigation strategies.
- Penetration Testing: Develop skills in penetration testing and red teaming, including planning, executing, and reporting on tests.
- Incident Response: Lead and manage responses to security breaches, ensuring rapid and effective resolution.
- Collaboration & Leadership: Work closely with IT and development teams to integrate security considerations.
- Mentor junior team members, encouraging a culture of continuous learning.
- Policy & Compliance: Contribute to developing and updating security policies, ensuring compliance with industry standards.
- Threat Intelligence: Stay updated on the latest cybersecurity threats for proactive defense.
- Standby and Callout: Provide out-of-hours support as part of a standby rota for high-priority alerts and incidents.
- Continuous Improvement: Recommend and implement new cyber initiatives to improve esure's cyber capability.
Qualifications
What we would love you to bring:
- Keen curiosity about developing penetration testing skills, with some foundational knowledge or experience in this area.
- Proven ability in a cyber security environment, with 2-3 years in a Security Engineering role.
- Certifications such as CISSP, CISM, OSCP or other relevant credentials are helpful.
- Experience leading security incidents in an enterprise setting.
- Excellent problem-solving skills, with the ability to think creatively about cyber security challenges.
- In-depth understanding of information security concepts, cyber risk management, and various security technologies including XDR, DLP, SWG, ZTNA, SIEM, Email Gateway and Firewalls.
- Hands-on experience with Active Directory, AWS and Azure cloud platforms, plus Windows and Linux operating systems.
- Superb communication skills, both written and verbal.
We’ll help you gain
- Professional growth and progression opportunities.
- Further education, certifications, and experience will open up opportunities as a future, Pentester, Security Architect, DecSecOps Lead or Security Operations Manager.
Additional Information
This is your opportunity to shape our game-changing journey and be part of something truly special! And to top it off, here are some perks to life at esure…
- A competitive salary that recognises your skills and potential
- A bonus scheme that celebrates your contribution to esure’s success
- Discounts on our insurance products, for you and your family
- 25 days annual leave, plus 8 flex days to be taken as and when suits you
- Benefits just for you: our hub – My Benefits Box – is loaded with perks to choose from, so you can build a personal toolkit to support your health, wellbeing, lifestyle, and finances.
- Grow your career with us: whatever your goals, we’ll support you with hands-on training, mentoring, a LinkedIn Learning licence, access to our exclusive Academies, regular career conversations, and expert partner resources from the likes of Women in Data and Women in Tech.
- Join our communities: our networks give you the chance to connect, learn and share with like-minded colleagues across the business – for work and play. So, it’s no surprise our people consistently rate ‘making friends at work’ one of the highest scorers in our colleague engagement survey
- More flexibility for you: we’re a proud supporter of the ABI’s Make Flexible Work campaign and welcome you to ask about the flexibility you need, whether it’s part time, job sharing, or compressed hours. Our hybrid working approach also puts you in the driving seat of how and where you do your best work.
- Live a healthy lifestyle: we offer lots of support, so you feel like the best version of yourself – like specialist advice through our employee assistance programme, wellbeing classes, access to the My Health Advantage app, our Big Team Challenge, and learning sessions on topics like menopause.
- A helping hand to do your bit for a greener and safer world: driving good in the world couldn’t be more important to us. That’s why we encourage colleagues to use volunteering days to support their local communities and have lots of initiatives to help you live a greener lifestyle.
- Everyday appreciation: praise from your colleagues means the world! Our social recognition tool makes it easy to give colleagues the praise they deserve, and you could even be shortlisted for a company-wide ACE Award.
We understand some people may not apply for jobs unless they tick every box. If you are excited about joining us and think you have some of what we are looking for, even if you’re not 100% sure we would love to hear from you.
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, sex, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.
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