Overview

Junior Information Security Consultant - Canary Wharf/London - Hybrid

Global client has a fantastic opportunity for a Junior Information Security Consultant to work with their existing team to manage the portfolio of security controls, including level 1 triage of alerts and performing daily checks across multiple security systems, manage and maintain technical controls to meet specific security requirements and implement approved configuration changes.

Responsibilities

• Work with information security leadership to deploy agreed changes to security requirements and address identified security risks.
• Raise information security awareness and support training activities.
• Assist in the coordination and completion of information security operations documentation.
• Collaborate on IT projects to ensure that security issues are addressed throughout the project life cycle.
• Advise security administrators on normal and exception-based processing of security authorization requests.
• Research and evaluate new threats and advise on necessary communications or extra controls to counter these.
• Manage ServiceNow tickets assigned to (members of) the security team and escalate when deadlines are likely to be missed.
• Incident Detection and Response: provide 1st and 2nd line support and analysis during and after a security incident while ensuring guidelines for recording security incidents are followed.

Qualifications

• Demonstrate knowledge and appreciation of current IT threats and security measures; requires a combination of good business awareness and technical IT knowledge or experience.
• Ideally 2+ years of relevant work experience; some knowledge of IT security should be demonstrated through work experience or qualifications.
• Knowledge and understanding of information risk concepts and principles to relate business needs to security controls.
• Technical knowledge of mainstream operating systems (mainly Microsoft Windows) and understanding of security technologies, such as network security appliances, identity and access management (IAM) systems, anti-malware solutions and desktop security tools.
• Basic knowledge of network infrastructure and risk assessment methods and technologies.

Salary, Benefits and Location

This is a superb career opportunity with an organisation that offers a salary of up to £35,000 plus bonus up to 10%, salary review to 10%, hybrid working and a great benefits package that includes: Pension (employer contributions up to 7% of salary, up to 10% based on employee contributions), Healthcare, Employee Assistance Programme, interest-free travel season ticket loan (upon completion of probation), gym membership, medical cover, Health Cash Plan, etc.

This role is commutable from London, Home counties, London, Kent, Hertfordshire, Essex, Cambridgeshire, Berkshire, Sussex, Hampshire, Oxfordshire.

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