Security Specialist

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This role is based in India and as such all normal working days must be carried out in India.

Join us as a Security Specialist
• Take on a new challenge and use your specialist knowledge to support the wider organisation in building and operating secure services that protect both colleagues and customers
• You’ll act as a subject matter expert in a security related field, making sure that the security implications of the backlog are understood in the right way, building security early into design
• You’ll be joining an exciting and fast-paced area of the bank, where you can expect great exposure both for you and your work
• This role is available at associate level

What you'll do

As a Security Specialist, you’ll work at a domain level to understand and ensure robust security is continuously considered and incorporated at every stage, programme increment and feature team delivery throughout the development lifecycle and through to support.

You’ll collaborate with feature teams and participate in story refinement, sprint planning and retrospective sessions, establishing a culture of innovation and strategic thinking that makes sure that the bank has knowledge of, and opportunities to exploit, the latest developments in your area of specialism.

You’ll also be:
• Supporting with the identification of risks, while contributing to risk management strategies to achieve business objectives and customer outcomes
• Understanding and implementing Agile methodologies and actively contributing to finding opportunities to build security early into design
• Making sure that decisions made are based on robust data, return on investment and value measures that demonstrate thoughtful and intelligent cost management
• Actively contributing to your centre of excellence (CoE) specialism by cross sharing learnings and best practice with CoE and community of practice colleagues
• Building and leveraging relationships with colleagues across the bank and third parties to ensure decisions made are commercially focused and create long term value for the organisation

The skills you'll need

We're looking for someone with at least five years of working experience in production support, and preferably in security services. You'll have a background as a support engineer for infrastructure in enterprise environments. You'll also have at least three years of experience in Red Hat Linux or Windows server 2k and above or Solaris networking

In addition, you’ll need knowledge of one or more security subject areas and experience of setting risk appetites. You’ll also demonstrate experience of, or a willingness to learn risk management frameworks.

Additionally, you’ll need:
• A background of defining policy controls
• An understanding of auditing practices and regulatory requirements
• Experience with relational databases such as Oracle, Sybase, MSSQL or similar
• An understanding of completing benchmarking to peers and industry standards
• The ability to communicate clearly and concisely, translating technical issues into business terms
• A good understanding of Agile methodologies

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