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SECURITYFOCUS JOBS - NEW OPPORTUNITY
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JOB DESCRIPTION
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Position: Sr. Security Engineer
Location: Oxford, , United Kingdom
Type: Permanent F/T
Closing Date: 2006-02-10
The Role
The Secure Infrastructure Engineer (SIE) will have responsibility, under the
lead of the Software Development Manger, for the design, implementation,
testing and the subsequent enhancement and maintenance of the secure
infrastructure to support The Organisations’ products. This is a new role
and it provides an excellent opportunity to contribute to the development and
implementation of both a new product set and overall company strategy.
The role will also involve working with customers to establish deployment
requirements, agree deployment plan and assisting them implementation.
He/She will have deep understanding and experience of the design and deployment
of secure distributed systems based on standard open components.
Customer interface: Limited for first 3 months
Key responsibilities
Design, development and implementation of the infrastructure to support planned
product offerings
Development, implementation and maintenance of core infrastructure components.
Establishment of baseline product configurations
Work with the Lead Kernel Developer and the Lead GUI developer to package the
products, based on the infrastructure developed
Work with key external technology partners to refine and develop product
infrastructure
Maintain a plan to constantly improve security aspects of the infrastructure
Ensure that the infrastructure is secure, highly available, performing and
scalable.
Identify bottlenecks in the system, eg. database access, network capacity,
components architecture, etc. and provide solutions to resolve any issues.
Provide means to measure component and product performance in relation to their
area of responsibility.
To maintain accurate and up-to-date documentation for the components and
products developed.
Maintain unit tests for all work produced.
Help produce release, maintenance, installation and deployment routines.
Working closely with customers, plan, configure and commission and troubleshoot
customer software installations and upgrades.
Work with other areas of the business to define total scope of required
deliveries and identify total costs, risks, opportunities and dependencies.
Manage the preparation and maintenance of project and technical documentation.
Communicate regularly with colleagues and work with them to create a supportive
team environment.
Actively contribute to the continuous improvement process and the ongoing
development of a QA culture by, for example, changing behaviour and identifying
and implementing improvements to processes and activities, and encourage others
to do the same.
Work with external penetration test organisations to validate the
Organisation’s products and deployment configurations
JOB REQUIREMENTS
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Qualifications
Experience
&
Knowledge (essential)
At least 5 years experience in deploying operating systems in a heterogeneous
environment i.e. Unix, Linux, and Windows.
Good working knowledge of security, intrusion detection and intrusion
prevention.
Demonstrable experience in designing, deploying, and performance tuning network
file store
Proven configuration and deployment experience in the following
Encrypted file systems
HTTP Reverse proxies in a secure environment
OS hardening (eg Chroot jails)
Digital Certificates
Secure protocols and VPNs (e.g. ssh, ssl, https, tls)
OS Logging and distributed collection of logs (e.g. syslog)
LDAP clients and servers
Resilient and highly available systems
Responsible and able to communicate with people at all levels and eager to
learn.
Product Development Experience.
Self-starter who can operate independently and manage their own workload.
CONTACT
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Candidates must be:
UK Citizens
EU Citizens
Currently hold a UK work visa
Information Security Solutions
Iain Sutherland
iain@InformationSecuritySolutions.com
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