Infrastructure Security Analyst

Legal & General

  • Brighton Hove, East Sussex
  • Permanent
  • Full-time
  • 9 hours ago
Company DescriptionLegal & General (L&G) is a leading UK financial services group and major global investor.We've been safeguarding people's financial futures since 1836, and strive to build a better society, while improving the lives of our customers and creating value for shareholders.We are one of the world's largest asset managers and provide powerful asset origination capabilities. Together, these underpin our retirement and protection solutions: we are an international player in pension risk transfer, in UK and US life insurance, and in UK workplace pensions and retirement income.Our Group Functions provide the services that all areas of the business need. This requires a talented and diverse team behind the scenes, who enable everyone at L&G to do what they do best.Joining us means helping to improve the lives of our customers and contributing to the success of the business every day.Job DescriptionWe have an incredible opportunity for an Infrastructure Security Analyst to join in either London or Hove!You'll help safeguard the business through reviewing the security posture and configuration of our network security controls, identifying weaknesses and driving remediation activity. If you are looking for a varied role where you will get involved in vulnerability management, penetration testing, endpoint security, web filtering and firewalls then this could be the perfect next challenge for you!What you'll be doing:
  • Analysing data from and identifying security improvements to other Infrastructure Security components such as Web Application Firewalls, IDS/IPS, Web Filters, E-Mail Security, and DLP. Making recommendations to improve the configuration/design of the solution
  • Conducting firewall configuration security reviews; analysing configuration and logs from Firewalls and related networking devices to identify opportunities for security improvements in configuration and design. This will involve understanding the environment, collaborating with relevant technical and application teams and making recommendations for changes, facilitating their implementation with SMEs
  • Supporting the maintenance of the Firewall and Network assurance application; task monitoring of configuration, data collection and analysis jobs
  • Assisting the Vulnerability Manager in the identification, prioritisation and remediation of security vulnerabilities across the L&G group
  • Supporting team mailboxes and queues; contributing to the management of the team's support queues, and mailboxes, providing 1st line support of tickets and queries.
  • Keeping up to date on threat actor approaches and methods, making recommendations to detect and defend against these activities
QualificationsWho we're looking for:
  • Strong understanding of Firewall and related network security technologies
  • Strong understanding of networks and network protocols and the risk posed by related security vulnerabilities
  • Knowledge/experience in information protection, data leakage protection, and cloud security
  • Knowledge of the threat landscape, particularly exploited vulnerabilities
  • Prior industry experience relevant to this role covering Firewall assurance, and network security, preferably using relevant security frameworks and tooling
  • Experience with vulnerability management, and vulnerability scanning tools would be a huge plus!
  • Experience in managing complex stakeholder relationships
  • It would also be great if you have relevant certifications and/or accreditations relevant to this position (CISSP/CISM etc)
Whatever your role, we reward performance and behaviour with a package that looks after all the things that are important to you. Here are some of the benefits we offer:
  • The opportunity to participate in our annual, performance -related bonus plan and valuable share schemes
  • Generous pension contribution
  • Life assurance
  • Healthcare Plan (permanent employees only)
  • At least 25 days holiday, plus public holidays, 26 days after 2 years' service. There's also the option to buy and sell holiday
  • Competitive family leave
  • Participate in our electric car scheme, which offers employees the option to hire a brand-new electric car through tax efficient salary sacrifice (permanent employees only)
  • There are the many discounts we offer - both for our own products and at a range of high street stores and online
  • In 2023, some of our workspaces were redesigned. Our offices are great spaces to connect and collaborate and have your wellbeing at the heart
Additional InformationAt L&G, we believe it's possible to generate positive returns today while helping to build a better future for all.If you join us, you'll be part of a welcoming, inclusive culture, with opportunities to collaborate with people of diverse backgrounds, views, and experiences. Guided by leaders with integrity who care about your future and wellbeing. Empowered through initiatives which support people to develop their careers and excel.We care passionately about outcomes rather than attendance and are therefore open to discussing all kinds of flexible working options including part-time, term-time and job shares. Although some roles have limited flexibility due to customer demand, we accommodate requests when we can.It doesn't matter if you don't meet every single criterion in this advert. Instead, think about what you excel at and what else you can bring in terms of strengths, potential and connection to our purpose.

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