Technical Information Security Specialist

Location London
Discipline: Information & Cyber Security
Job type: Permanent
Salary: £up to 75k

A global payments company located in London is seeking a Technical Information Security Specialist to join their team on a permanent basis with Hybrid working. The ideal candidate for this role is someone who is passionate for Information Security and is a natural problem-solver to be able to provide efficient IT solutions across the organisation.

About the Role

The company is seeking an experienced and passionate IT professional that will lead a group of people responsible for strengthening the Regulatory Operations team. This role will be part of a wider operations team and will be involved in ensuring that IT standards are maintained with strong compliance, processes, and proper risk management.

Responsibilities:

  • Improve the overall Security of the company by recommending and helping to implement new Security controls 

  • Assist in the creation and updating of Security Application Access User Control Reviews in an auditable and timely manner 

  • Reporting, Management Information, remediation and tracking

  • Support the development, revision and implementation of Information Security governance policies, procedures, standards and controls and ensure that these are fully embedded in the activities of all teams.

  • Provide strong central oversight to deliver consistency and quality in security compliance within the organisation.

  • Regular controls of Information Security Risk Management and Key Risk Indicators.

  • Raise, monitor, action Security Incidents, Alerts, Service & Change Requests via the Jira change platform

  • Regular contact with Management to convey control weakness findings identified through walkthroughs and scenario testing, assess the risk and impact of deficiencies and make recommendations for remediation.

  • Assist with the Penetration Testing schedule and Cyber Threat Intelligence platform by tracking and resolving vulnerabilities identified, across multiple teams 

Skills and Experience:

  • Minimum 3 years’ experience required. 

  • Information Security industry standard qualifications such as CISM, CISSP, CISA, CRISC required (additional certifications desirable such as: CCSP, CCAK, PCI DSS, ITIL and/or AWS/Azure Cloud Security certifications)

  • Extensive Security Governance, Risk & Compliance hands-on experienceExperience of managing internal & external audit activities, reports and remediation 

  • Excellent PCI DSS certification knowledge on controls and processes. 

  • Ensure new business initiatives and PCI compliant and implement changes to ensure compliance is maintained.

  • Excellent understanding of Network and Cloud security architecture, protocols and principles

  • Regulatory and banking experience is essential

  • Extensive Cloud Security, Azure/O365 Security controls 

  • Good knowledge of ISO27001 certification / audit requirements and controls

  • Excellent AWS technical operational Security and architecture experience

  • Excellent skill set and knowledge of Cloud Security controls for both O365 \ Azure \ AWS Security Controls, Policies and Alert Management