Role Title: Tenable Scanning Engineer
Duration: 4 - 5 Months
Location: Knutsford/Hybrid (2 days on site)
Rate: £525/d - Umbrella only

Would you like to join a global leader in consulting, technology services and digital transformation?

Our client is at the forefront of innovation to address the entire breadth of opportunities in the evolving world of cloud, digital and platforms.

We are looking for a highly motivated individual who will join the security team of a major global banking organisation, to improve the security posture and services provided internally. The ideal candidate for this job will be an experienced information security practitioner who is goal-oriented and strives to exceed expectations.

Role Purpose/Summary

• The ability to review requirements, undertake product design followed by Implementation/deployment/support of the Tenable product suite (Security Centre, Nessus scan engines, Tenable.io) and peripherals with Engineering.
• Maintains local and network credentials Tenable Security Centre and provisions access to vulnerability scanning systems.
• Responsible for integration of Nessus/Security Centre with other security and IT systems management tools (ie Splunk, ServiceNow)
• Responsible for developing and maintaining standard processes and operating procedures, creating technical architecture diagrams and system build documentation.
• Responsible for operating the scanning tools and maintaining coverage along with supporting the vulnerability management and remediation teams in understating how to remediate vulnerabilities (ie laptops, VMs, wireless devices)
• Works with vulnerability management team to build asset repositories and asset scan policies
• Work closely with customer delivery managers to prioritize daily tasks and participate in technical meetings with customers' technical specialists.
• Provide Tier 2/3 support for incidents relating to security tools/solutions.
• Continuously improve customers' security deployments and integrate new technologies and services.

Key Skills/requirements

• 5+ years of experience in Vulnerability management domain and experience with working with web Proxy teams and working on vulnerability assessment operational issues
• 2+ years of experience with performing systems administration in Windows, Linux, VMware environments, including performing troubleshooting, installation or configuration, monitoring system performance or availability, and performing security upgrade
• The candidate should possess deep knowledge of Tenable' s entire product suite, including Security Centre, Nessus Scanner, Nessus Manager, Tenable.io
• Must have strong communication skills and a solid understanding of IT Security concepts to include vulnerability & patch management, security operations, Incident Management and Incident response.
• Experience with integrating Cybersecurity data using enterprise or custom tools data aggregation and analysis tools, including Splunk
• Ability to provide support in an IT operations and maintenance, including ticket work information updates, issue response, and remediation by understanding and analysing vulnerability scan results, system audits, log events and troubleshoot software issues.
• Strong knowledge and experience with log monitoring and correlations and correlating events from multiple security tools like log correlation engines, Net flow, host monitoring solutions
• Excellent troubleshooting/problem solving skills.
• Experience of dealing with incident, problem and change management processes.
• Proven working experience of Windows and Linux operating systems.
• Solid understanding of networking technologies; Switches, Routers, Firewalls, proxies, IDS, IPS.
  

Desirable:

• Previous experience in the financial sector.
• Working experience of security tool sets eg Firewall Assurance, Cloud Access Security Broker (CASB), Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM)

All profiles will be reviewed against the required skills and experience. Due to the high number of applications, we will only be able to respond to successful applicants in the first instance. We thank you for your interest and the time taken to apply!