- Pay Rate:
Up to £650 per day pay range subject to IR35 status
- Hours per Week:
37
Anticipated 2-3 months
- London
Interim Specialist Infrastructure Engineer -Hybrid Working – PSR 1JP00066527
Pay Rate: Up to £650 per day pay range subject to IR35 status
Location: Hybrid: Minimum 1 / 2 days in the office required / London, Manchester, Bristol.
JOB INFO:
A Specialist Infrastructure Engineer is needed on a contract basis, anticipated 2-3 months with the potential to be extended for the right candidate.
Existing security clearance is not a prerequisite but will always help.
What you’ll do:
- The public core of the internet: naming and numbering, PKI, packet routing and common protocols (e.g. TCP, UDP, DNS, BGP, HTTP)
- Red/blue/purple teaming: attack simulation, security threat assessment on network and cloud infrastructure and applications, defence in depth strategies
Vulnerability resources: working knowledge of resources for protecting internet assets such as Mitre ATT&CK, HackerOne, can-i-take-over-xyz,can-i-take-over-dns - Linux: including basic systems administration, shell scripting, and developing software for a Linux environment
- Python: including API development using django-rest-framework or similar, concurrency fundamentals, the requests and dnspython software libraries
- Data storage and processing: including SQL, PostgreSQL, JSON, and interacting with RESTful APIs
- AWS and Azure: including key services, security fundamentals, access control /IAM, containerised deployment
- Development best practice: including peer reviewing, continuous integration/continuous deployment, and test-driven development. what are the essential criteria that you will be assessing in the CV screen that candidates must have?
- Analysis. You can apply the approach to real problems and consider all relevant information. You can apply appropriate rigour to ensure a solution is designed and achieves the business outcome. (Skill level: working)
- Communication. You can demonstrate a deep understanding of security concepts and can apply them to a technical level.
- You can effectively translate and accurately communicate security and risk implications to technical and non-technical stakeholders. You can successfully respond to challenges. You can manage stakeholder expectations and be flexible, adapting to stakeholder reactions to reach consensus. (Skill level:
practitioner) - Programming and build. You can collaborate with others when necessary to review specifications. You can use the agreed specifications to design, code, test and document programs or scripts of medium-to-high complexity, using the right standards and tools. (Skill level: practitioner)
- Prototyping. You can approach prototyping as a team activity, actively soliciting prototypes and testing with others. You can establish design patterns and iterate them.
- You can use a variety of prototyping methods and choose the most appropriate.
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- Our clients are generally seeking applicants who are reasonably local, not that they would exclude candidates willing to travel/relocate, so on that basis we would ideally like you to supply us with your address (or at least your post code) and a telephone number so that we can reach you during working hours
- Your recent UK working experience going back at least 5 years, or full employment history if you have been working for fewer years than this.
- Your availability to work either immediately, or at short notice.
- Qualifications and experience relevant to the job role – please give full details within your CV document
Other preferable/desirable details to include on your CV, if applicable:
- Any local authority/public sector experience
- Any relevant qualifications held or being studied for
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