Senior Security Engineer (6 month FTC)

Coventry Building Society have an exciting opportunity for a Senior Security Engineer to join our Cyber team.

A Subject Matter Expert (SME) for Security Products and responsible for providing strategic expertise to ensure effective management of the technical and business Services for the Security tooling across the society.

A key responsibility for this role is to be accountable for the implementation, transition, and ongoing support of the relevant security solutions at CBS to meet business requirements and architectural strategy.

You will be responsible for the creation, quality, and governance of technical and standards documentation to maintain a stable and consistent environment.

This role would be a great fit for someone who has a high level of technical knowledge to complete the troubleshooting and resolution to production incidents or problems to meet operational needs and ensures business as usual service is maintained to service and operational level agreements.

This role requires you to be on site in Coventry once a week and 2 days per quarter for PI Planning.

We're looking for an effective team member who will bring experience in Agile work practices and security-focused tooling, with a specialised emphasis on cybersecurity engineering. Your hands-on expertise includes implementing and managing security measures in both on-premises and cloud environments.

To be successful in this role, it's essential that you're able to demonstrate:

• Experience with performance tuning, proactive monitoring of cybersecurity solutions to identify and mitigate potential threats before they impact the organisation.
• Strong computer literacy, experience in using Microsoft Office products to create and manage documentation.
• Experience in understanding change management processes.

Technical expertise:

• M365 Product Suite
• Sentinel or Splunk

Desirable skills for this role are:

• Experience of Agile work practices and tooling (Service Now, JIRA).
• Performance tuning, proactive monitoring of solutions.
• Knowledge of systems management procedures in a large commercial, mission-critical environment.

We're one of the largest building societies in the UK and we share a mutual goal across our branches and our offices to improve the lives of others.

We're officially recognised as a 'Great Place to Work' and our benefits go beyond basic pay, with a discretionary bonus scheme, a culture of reward and recognition and comprehensive support for wellbeing.

At the beginning of the year, The Co-operative Bank officially became part of our Group. Together, we have shared values and an ethical approach towards our members, customers, and colleagues.

We're serious about equality, of race, age, faith, disability, and sexual orientation and we celebrate diversity. By working together, we know you'll build more than just a career with us.

All together, better.

Flexibility and why it matters

We understand the need for flexibility, so wherever possible, we'll consider alternative working patterns. Have a chat with us before you apply to see what the possibilities are for this role.

Proud to be a Disability Confident Committed Employer

We're proud to offer an interview or assessment to every disabled applicant who meets the minimum criteria for our vacancies. As part of the application process, disabled applicants can opt in for the Disability Confident Interview Scheme. If there are ever occasions where it is not practicable to interview all candidates that meet the essential criteria, such as when we receive a high number of applications, we commit to interviewing disabled candidates who best meet the minimum essential and desirable criteria.