What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior IT Security Engineer position at SGS?
Company Description
SGS is the world's leading inspection, verification, testing and certification company and recognised as the global benchmark for quality and integrity. With more than 89,000 employees, we operate a network of more than 2,600 offices and laboratories around the world.
Job Description
Working as a key member of our global IT security team, you will be responsible for making sure that our IT systems remain secure and protected from online threats. With a proven background in IT system security, you will also resolve security incidents and lead projects to ensure that SGS has a "best in class" security infrastructure.
More specifically, you will:
- Identify and define system and security requirements, baselines and controls for both the existing environment and new developments in IT infrastructure;
- Contribute in the preparation and documentation of Standard Operating Procedures in the IT security area such as Incident Handling, Problem Management and Forensics Investigations;
- Configure, monitor and troubleshoot security infrastructure devices and services such as endpoint protection and antimalware solutions, proxies, firewalls, SIEM, etc;
- Identify opportunities for, and promote automation and new technical solutions and security tools to help mitigate security vulnerabilities and improve efficiency;
- Participate in evaluation and selection of products and security solutions, set the security requirements and coordinate / run PoCs / project management;
- Coordinate and / or perform penetration tests, evaluate findings and drive mitigation;
- Coordinate and / or perform vulnerability assessments, evaluate findings and drive mitigation;
- Provide reports for assessment findings, product evaluations, propositions for further system security enhancement etc
Qualifications
- Educated to degree level in Information Technology, Computer Science, or a relevant discipline;
- Proven experience as a System Engineer or Security Engineer and technical knowledge of network, databases and operating system security;
- Knowledge of experience working with Zscaler and SentinelOne is required;
- Hands on experience in security systems, including antimalware / antivirus software, firewalls, intrusion detection / prevention systems, authentication systems, log management, web application firewalls, VPN, Zero-trust, cloud technologies, etc;
- Qualifications in any of the following: CCNA, CCSP, CompTia Security , CCSA, CCSE, CISSP would be desirable;
- Knowledge or experience working with Microsoft Azure, Firewalls Checkpoint, F5 WAF and Cisco Umbrella is a plus.
Additional Information
This position will be based at our IT hub in Madrid.
