A fantastic opportunity for a Python Security Engineer, to be working with one of the world’s largest investment banks.

Description

• We are seeking a Python Security Infrastructure Engineer to help maintain and improve their platforms and services. This is a challenging role with a steep learning curve which, with the help of a friendly and supportive squad, will transform your technical skills.
• Their globally distributed squad is responsible for maintaining a security analytics technology platform using the Splunk vendor product. Their key stakeholders are cyber security response and investigations and incident management.
• They are leveraging DevOps and SRE methodologies to deliver stakeholder needs more efficiently.

Profile

• Delivering a well-documented, monitored, stable and supportable plant
• Implementing automation tools that integrate with in-house developed configuration management frameworks and APIs
• Building and maintaining relationships with technical groups, providing consultancy to them and helping to engineer products and solutions that meet their needs
• Communicating with internal clients and stakeholders to identify new business requirements and design well architected infrastructure solutions that meet their needs
• Recommending and testing changes to improve performance and stability at the configuration or code level
• Working as an escalation point to perform complex troubleshoots, working with other infrastructure owners to resolve issues in the environment

As the Python Security Engineer, you will:

• Have infrastructure automation and integration experience ideally using Python and Ansible
• Have a solid understanding of O/S and networking concepts: Linux/Unix system administration, HTTP and encryption.
• Have a good understanding of software version control, deployment & build tools using DevOps SDLC practices (Git, Jenkins, Jira)
• Have strong analytical and troubleshooting skills in a highly visible fast paced enterprise environment,
• Have excellent verbal & written communication skills
• Have an appreciation of Agile methodologies such as Kanban and Scrum

Desired Skills

• Prior experience deploying and managing large scale analytics platforms
• Data engineering and configuration experience inc. writing and testing field extractions using regular expressions
• Log data transport technologies such as Kafka and syslog
• Splunk certified administrator and/or architect