Information (IT) Security Engineer

£44,000 -- £50,000 plus excellent benefits (30 days holiday etc)

Occasional travel to one of our offices or student hubs across the UK

Full Time – Permanent

Full Job Description available here

Arden University

We are an aspirational and multi-award-winning university, delivering rapid growth with ambitious plans to disrupt the HE sector through our passion for innovation and digital education. Our vision is to become the first-choice university for career-focused lifelong learners worldwide, ensuring that everyone, everywhere can access higher education. There has never been a more exciting time to join Arden University, as we expand into new disciplines, forge worldwide partnerships, and expand our locations.

The IT Department

The IT Security Engineer sits within our Technology Department that is crucial to making sure our employees and students can work effectively, deliver projects, find the right solutions and ensure we develop the technology that will make the biggest difference. Our IT team is made up of around 60 employees with a vast range of skills from Software Development to IT Operations and IT Security. Our IT Department values employee development and we have lots of great examples of employee progression and promotions within the team.

The Role – IT Security Engineer

We are currently recruiting an IT Security Engineer to join our expanding Cyber Security team. Are you looking for the next step in your information security career? Do you want to join a fast growing team and really make your mark? If so, our IT Security Engineer role could be for you!

As our new IT Security Engineer, you will be a member of the Information Security Team and responsible for the implementation, configuration and administration of our technical security control suite. You will be working on the design and implementation of new security controls / technologies to help further improve Arden’s security posture,

• Design and implement security IT / network solutions designed to defend against hackers, cyber attacks, and other persistent threats.
• Evaluating the University’s security needs and establishing best practices and standards accordingly.
• Troubleshooting network and security issues and incidents.
• Analyse and interpret data using a range of techniques; identifying trends, testing solutions, sourcing additional related information where appropriate, and reporting on progress through briefings or formal reports.
• Educate IT teams to support our Information Security strategy.

About You:

The ideal IT Security Engineer candidate will have:

Essential:

• Strong IT skills and knowledge including hardware, software, networking and cloud services.
• Significant work experience with incident detection, incident response and forensics.
• Experience working within a security framework e.g. PCI DSS, Cyber Essentials, ISO 27001, NIST
• Experience with virtualisation technologies, back up services and IP networking.
• In-depth knowledge of security systems including anti-virus applications, content filtering, authentication systems, and device encryption, Firewalls, Endpoint Protection (EDR, XDR), DNS, VPN, MFA, DDOS mitigation technologies.

Desirable:

• Recognised information security certification e.g. Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), Certified Information Security Manager (CISM), CompTIA Security+
• Experience of Dev/Ops practices including automation, CI & CD Pipelines (e.g. Jenkins)
• Experience of AWS, especially EC2, VPC, RDS, S3, Cloudfront, Route 53, IAM, CloudWatch

Why Arden:

At Arden, you will become a part of a passionate and dedicated team who are committed to removing unnecessary barriers to learning and making education more accessible. Our people work hard to ensure our students journeys are the best they can possibly be, as such we want to reward our people with fantastic benefits. Employees benefit from:

• 30 days holiday, add the bank holiday on top, and we even throw in Christmas closure
• A generous Aviva pension plan, our contributions start at 7%
• PMI
• Study any Arden course for free, with generous discount for all family and friends
• Our ‘Golden Ticket’ which allows you to gift anyone in your life a free Arden education
• Plus, other competitive benefits!

Arden’s values:

Stand out, Progressive, Accessible, Resourceful, Kindness, reflect who we are as an institution, a team and as individuals. If they also reflect you and you are excited by the chance to be the driving, creative force within a growing business, we want to hear from you.

There has never been a more exciting time to join Arden University, as we expand into new disciplines and locations. For the full job description, click here, or to start your journey with us, click apply!

Closing Date: Wednesday 20^th November

We reserve the right to close this vacancy before the specified closing date should we receive sufficient applications or in order to respond to business needs. In order to avoid missing an opportunity to apply please submit your application as early as possible.

As an Equal Opportunity Employer we celebrate diversity and are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace. Therefore, we make sure that our recruitment and selection processes never discriminate based upon people's age, disability, gender, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, sexual orientation, or other personal circumstances, and actively welcome applications from all groups.