Senior Security Engineer

Senior Security Engineer

Location: Central London - on site 5 days per week.

Due to security clearance requirements candidates must be eligible for or currently hold SC or DV. Candidates must be sole UK national/British citizen and resided in the UK for 10 years and over.

At DXC Technology, delivering excellence for our customers and colleagues is more than just a motto, it’s something we strive towards constantly through our work. Every day we deliver mission critical services in a secure environment whilst promoting our people first agenda, a real sense of community and a healthy work-life balance. Our consistently positive customer feedback and continuous growth helps us cement our place as one of the world’s leading IT solutions enterprises, helping us deliver services and solutions in both challenging and exciting situations.   

We believe that hiring a diverse team is crucial to our success and our recruiting decisions are based on your skills and experience as an individual. We actively encourage consistent growth on our journey towards a culture of inclusion and recognise that the people we employ are vital to providing a great customer experience. As such, we have a variety of training, support, and tools available to aid in your continual personal and professional development. Our ongoing goal is to drive innovation and modernise operations across the board, which includes furthering the skills of our colleagues. At DXC, building a better you, builds a better us.  

The role:

At DXC, one of our platinum accounts  has an openings for a Senior Security Engineer.  We are looking for the following for successful candidate to join our expanding team.

Role responsibilities :  

• Provide second and third level technical support on incidents and problems 

• Monitor overall system performance and ensure smooth system functionality 

• Create, maintain, and utilise documentation

• Requirements consulting, design, implementation and maintenance of security toolsets and integrations

• Assist the Account Security Team with processes and policies 

What you will bring to the team :  

• Excellent organisation and time management skills 

• Working to ITIL best practices 

• Desire to improve processes, looking for the root cause of a problem 

• Willingness to both share your knowledge and learn from others 

• A proactive approach towards looking for risks and problems

• Assist in shaping future security services on key client accounts

Desirable Skills and Technologies : 

• Solid knowledge and understanding of networking

• Experience in the design, implementation and ongoing management of security toolsets and technologies within both on-premises and cloud environments

• Experience or knowledge of operating systems, PKI, anti-virus, firewalls, device and application control, privileged access management, vulnerability management, security monitoring

• Comfortable with scripting eg Powershell, Bash

• Good understanding of non-functional/quality requirements within security toolset designs

• Strong awareness of governance, risk and compliance

• Awareness and understanding of modern technology tools eg  Git, Ansible, Terraform, Docker, and their related security considerations

• Ability to communicate key details of technical solutions to variety of stakeholders, including non-technical audiences

• Ability to plan, design and demonstrate proof of concepts relating to a variety of security toolsets

What we will do for you : 

• Competitive compensation 

• Pension scheme 

• DXC Select – Our comprehensive benefits package (includes private health/medical insurance, childcare vouchers, gym membership and more) 

• Perks at Work (discounts on technology, groceries, travel and more) 

• DXC incentives (recognition tools, employee lunches, regular social events etc)