Senior Information Security Engineer

Company Description

AJ Bell is one of the fastest-growing investment platform businesses in the UK offering an award-winning range of solutions that caters for everyone, from professional financial advisers to DIY investors with little to no experience. We have over 620,000 customers using our award-winning platform propositions to manage assets totalling more than £96.1 billion. Our customers trust us with their investments, and by continuously striving to make investing easier, we aim to help even more people take control of their financial futures.

Having listed on the Main Market of the London Stock Exchange in December 2018, AJ Bell is now a FTSE 250 company.

Headquartered in Manchester with offices in central London and Bristol, we now have over 1,500 employees and have been named one of the UK s  Best 100 Companies to Work For  for six consecutive years and in 2024 named a Great Place to Work®.

At AJ Bell you can expect a friendly working environment with a strong sense of teamwork, we have a great sense of pride in what we do, and this is reflected in our guiding principles.

Purpose of the role

To support the Chief Information Security Officer in managing and reporting the Information Security Risks faced by Technology Services (TS) in delivering AJ Bell s systems and services. This role is responsible for playing a lead role in designing and implementing improvement to the Cybersecurity risk management tools, systems, and processes. Key to this is assisting and supporting the Information Security team to drive continual improvement through innovation, automation and integration of its tools and processes.

The key responsibilities of the role are:

• Lead the delivery and maintenance of technical enterprise security solutions for (but not limited to) the following areas:
  End Point Protection, Cloud Security, Network Security, Dev Ops, Security Monitoring & Remediation.
• Design and implementation of enterprise security technology controls and platforms, following secure infrastructure engineering best practices.
• Lead the Identification, evaluation, and requirements collection for new enterprise security tools
• Driving the adoption of new tools and techniques, ensuring adequate operational handover is in place and able to articulate inherent value and impact
• Lead the planning and co-ordination of patch management activities for internal systems and hardware
• Assessing and recommending server hardening activities to be completed by the Infrastructure and Service Delivery teams
• Supporting audit and due diligence activities within Technology Services
• Supporting and advising on projects and change initiatives to ensure that there is no negative impact on our security posture
• Acts as an integration point between CISO and AJ Bell Infrastructure teams to ensure integration of technical IS solutions into the wider technology estate

Technical

Skills:

• Demonstrable experience of implementing enterprise security platforms
• Strong understanding and knowledge of Information Security risk management tools and techniques
• Awareness of Information Security control standards and frameworks
• Awareness and understanding of the Information Security threat landscape
• Deep understanding of Information Security solutions e.g. email / web gateways, Privileged Account Management (PAM), Identity Governance and Administration (IGA), Security Information and Event Management (SIEM), Endpoint protection etc.
• Knowledge/experience working with firewalls is highly advantageous
• Experience of Cloud security solutions and standards is highly advantageous

Competence, knowledge and skills

Competence

• Experience working within recognised Information Security frameworks and best practices such as ISO
  27001, NIST etc.
• 5 years  experience in an Information Security role gained in a financial services or e-commerce environment is preferred

Knowledge & Skills

• Significant experience in the area of Information Technology (IT) security
• Strong knowledge of core IT and networking concepts
• Well versed in IT security capabilities, framework and concepts
• Extensive experience implementing industry-standard IT security platforms
• Strong ownership of tasks, attention…