Job Title: Senior Cyber Security Engineer

Location: Preston or Frimley. We offer a range of hybrid and flexible working arrangements - please speak to your recruiter about the options for this particular role.

Salary: Circa £55,000

What you'll be doing:

• Support the review of firewall rule requests acting as a Security approver
• Provide reviews of Security feature configurations on the firewalls
• Maintenance of the Atlassian Stack including Jira, Confluence and Bitbucket
• Manage user permissions, workflows, and integrations for Atlassian tools
• Resolve Atlassian application performance issues and related problems
• PostgreSQL Database maintenance and troubleshooting
• Handle ticket queues to ensure timely resolution for end-user issues
• Create and maintain Confluence spaces, Jira projects, workflows, and Bitbucket repositories
• Provide knowledge transfer to colleagues and stakeholders on Atlassian Stack tools
• Analyse, test and document deployment strategy of the Atlassian Stack
• Create documentation, standard operating procedures and granular process checklists
• Managing and mentoring team members while providing an escalation point where required
• Work with Cyber Security Engineering team to integrate new capabilities, plan life cycle replacements, and provide input into the security architecture roadmaps

Your skills and experiences:

• Proven experience in the installation, configuration, and maintenance of the Atlassian Stack tools including Jira, Confluence and BitBucket
• Experience in PostgreSQL maintenance and troubleshooting.
• Good experience with Linux (mainly RHEL) Operating Systems
• Detailed understanding of Network troubleshooting
• Experience of Firewall architectures (Palo Alto, Juniper, Cisco)
• Knowledge of Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) tools

Benefits:

As well as a competitive pension scheme, BAE Systems also offers employee share plans, an extensive range of flexible discounted health, wellbeing and lifestyle benefits, including a green car scheme, private health plans and shopping discounts - you may also be eligible for an annual incentive.

The Cyber Engineering team:

You will be joining an expansion to an existing cyber engineering team, supporting additional requirements that sits within Enterprise IT, providing enterprise IT services across the UK businesses and internationally. You will participate in the creation of security solutions to provide enterprise security services, and maintain, develop, and communicate their associated roadmaps and standards through the full lifecycle of the service. This could also offer a natural progression route and the opportunity to develop further.

Why BAE Systems?

This is a place where you'll be able to make a real difference. You'll be part of an inclusive culture that values diversity, rewards integrity, and merit, and where you'll be empowered to fulfil your potential. We welcome candidates from all backgrounds and particularly from sections of the community who are currently underrepresented within our industry, including women, ethnic minorities, people with disabilities and LGBTQ+ individuals.

We also want to make sure that our recruitment processes are as inclusive as possible. If you have a disability or health condition (for example dyslexia, autism, an anxiety disorder etc.) that may affect your performance in certain assessment types, please speak to your recruiter about potential reasonable adjustments.

Please be aware that many roles at BAE Systems are subject to both security and export control restrictions. These restrictions mean that factors such as your nationality, any nationalities you may have previously held, and your place of birth can restrict the roles you are eligible to perform within the organisation. All applicants must as a minimum achieve Baseline Personnel Security Standard. Many roles also require higher levels of National Security Vetting where applicants must typically have 5 to 10 years of continuous residency in the UK depending on the vetting level required for the role, to allow for meaningful security vetting checks.

Closing Date: 19th November 2024

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.

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