IT Systems Administrator
Commerce Decisions
The top skills/experience required for the IT Systems Administrator
The role profile gives a clear reflection of the role and is ordered in a list of priorities however 3 key skills/experience for shortlisting purposes:
* Experience managing and administering Hosted Services (including remote access).
* Experience of Performing IT operations and maintenance in a Windows environment
* Experience/Aptitude to evaluate & champion new technologies/systems/ways of working and lead the implementation of agreed items into the business
The business are looking for someone with the experience to take responsibility and care for their hosted services and internal business infrastructure whilst being able to innovate and update the current offering as new programmes/software updates/technologies become available.
A summary of the day to day responsibilities of the IT Systems Administrator
Primary responsibility to provide care for the hosted services. This will involve both ensuring current established systems are running correctly, data is flowing as expected and planned maintenance/updates are completed as required. Any issues requiring fixes will be the responsibility of the post holder. In addition, introduction of new services for new clients, setting up new users and supporting clients with technical support relating to this.
Secondary to support the internal business of 45 internal staff and the companies own It infrastructure. Also understanding and supporting key CD products.
The post-holder will be excited by technology and be able to promote new ways of working/technologies for discussion that would improve the organisations operation and improve efficiency. As part of a smaller organisation, the post-holder will have a diverse range of work and projects they can be involved in which can be either business or personally identified.
* Responsibility for our hosted service & application infrastructure, supporting our client and internal facing hosted systems across multiple geographies.
* Performing IT operations and maintenance in accordance to approved procedures and standards, including security auditing and patching.
* Supporting the implementation of programs and procedures that ensure the safety of our data/information and safety in the Information Technology operations.
* Executing and supporting local installations of our products, AWARD and ADVANCE
* Identifying operational IT problems and seeking resolutions without impacting the end users • Keeping abreast of developments in industry regarding IT operations and maintenance
* Work alongside the development and support teams to become an expert in the use and support of the AWARD and ADVANCE products, working towards becoming the ultimate point of technical escalation.
* Internal Helpdesk support
* External Helpdesk support cover (equivalent to 2nd/3rd line support)
* Flexibility to perform other duties, as and when required, to ensure the smooth running of the organisation and to meet the needs of the business.
Benefits
A competitive salary, private health insurance, 25 days’ leave per annum and participation in a company bonus plan are offered. The company offers an excellent benefits package, including access to the full range of benefits provided by their parent company. They also have a culture of having fun and place importance on work-life balance.
Essential qualifications of the IT Systems Administrator
There are no essential qualifications required for the role. More importantly is the experience and aptitude of the person.
* Experience of running and maintaining MS Windows® environments.
* Experience of hosted services, remote operation and supporting web hosted SAAS
* Working knowledge of SQL, Apache, scripting & remote monitoring tools
* Ability to identify, diagnose and rectify IT issues
* Ability to research and implement relevant technical solutions
* Ability to multi-task, prioritise, learn and teach within a team of mixed skill levels.
* Existing or eligibility for SC clearance
* Ability to travel Desirable abilities
* Knowledge of ISO 27001, Cyber Essentials and Cyber Essential Plus standards
* Microsoft Office 365 deployment/administration
* OKTA
* Nessus
Key behavioural requirements in addition to the above comments:
* Personable and strong communication skills (able to provide technical clarity to non-technical clients)
* Confidence to take a lead role
* Innovative – able to embrace change, new technology and better ways of working
* Flexibility to meet the demands of the clients and internal consultants
This advert was posted by Gold Group - one of the UK's leading niche recruitment consultancies. We span a variety of specialist industries and are the recruitment company to help you find your next career opportunity. We pride ourselves on our commitment to candidates and stick to our ethos of finding the right role for the right person. Visit our website or get in touch today to discuss this role, find out what else we've got or just for a chat about the state of your industry. Services advertised by Gold Group are those of an Agency and/or an Employment Business. Please be aware that we receive a high volume of applications for every role advertised and regularly receive applications from candidates who exceed the job credentials. We will only contact you within the next 14 days if you are selected for interview. A copy of our privacy policy can be found here: https://(url removed)/about-us/privacy-policy. Gold Group is an equal opportunity & diversity employer. A copy of our equal opportunity & diversity policy can be found here: https://(url removed)/about-us/equality-and-diversity-policy
Oct 29, 2018
IT Systems Administrator
Commerce Decisions
The top skills/experience required for the IT Systems Administrator
The role profile gives a clear reflection of the role and is ordered in a list of priorities however 3 key skills/experience for shortlisting purposes:
* Experience managing and administering Hosted Services (including remote access).
* Experience of Performing IT operations and maintenance in a Windows environment
* Experience/Aptitude to evaluate & champion new technologies/systems/ways of working and lead the implementation of agreed items into the business
The business are looking for someone with the experience to take responsibility and care for their hosted services and internal business infrastructure whilst being able to innovate and update the current offering as new programmes/software updates/technologies become available.
A summary of the day to day responsibilities of the IT Systems Administrator
Primary responsibility to provide care for the hosted services. This will involve both ensuring current established systems are running correctly, data is flowing as expected and planned maintenance/updates are completed as required. Any issues requiring fixes will be the responsibility of the post holder. In addition, introduction of new services for new clients, setting up new users and supporting clients with technical support relating to this.
Secondary to support the internal business of 45 internal staff and the companies own It infrastructure. Also understanding and supporting key CD products.
The post-holder will be excited by technology and be able to promote new ways of working/technologies for discussion that would improve the organisations operation and improve efficiency. As part of a smaller organisation, the post-holder will have a diverse range of work and projects they can be involved in which can be either business or personally identified.
* Responsibility for our hosted service & application infrastructure, supporting our client and internal facing hosted systems across multiple geographies.
* Performing IT operations and maintenance in accordance to approved procedures and standards, including security auditing and patching.
* Supporting the implementation of programs and procedures that ensure the safety of our data/information and safety in the Information Technology operations.
* Executing and supporting local installations of our products, AWARD and ADVANCE
* Identifying operational IT problems and seeking resolutions without impacting the end users • Keeping abreast of developments in industry regarding IT operations and maintenance
* Work alongside the development and support teams to become an expert in the use and support of the AWARD and ADVANCE products, working towards becoming the ultimate point of technical escalation.
* Internal Helpdesk support
* External Helpdesk support cover (equivalent to 2nd/3rd line support)
* Flexibility to perform other duties, as and when required, to ensure the smooth running of the organisation and to meet the needs of the business.
Benefits
A competitive salary, private health insurance, 25 days’ leave per annum and participation in a company bonus plan are offered. The company offers an excellent benefits package, including access to the full range of benefits provided by their parent company. They also have a culture of having fun and place importance on work-life balance.
Essential qualifications of the IT Systems Administrator
There are no essential qualifications required for the role. More importantly is the experience and aptitude of the person.
* Experience of running and maintaining MS Windows® environments.
* Experience of hosted services, remote operation and supporting web hosted SAAS
* Working knowledge of SQL, Apache, scripting & remote monitoring tools
* Ability to identify, diagnose and rectify IT issues
* Ability to research and implement relevant technical solutions
* Ability to multi-task, prioritise, learn and teach within a team of mixed skill levels.
* Existing or eligibility for SC clearance
* Ability to travel Desirable abilities
* Knowledge of ISO 27001, Cyber Essentials and Cyber Essential Plus standards
* Microsoft Office 365 deployment/administration
* OKTA
* Nessus
Key behavioural requirements in addition to the above comments:
* Personable and strong communication skills (able to provide technical clarity to non-technical clients)
* Confidence to take a lead role
* Innovative – able to embrace change, new technology and better ways of working
* Flexibility to meet the demands of the clients and internal consultants
This advert was posted by Gold Group - one of the UK's leading niche recruitment consultancies. We span a variety of specialist industries and are the recruitment company to help you find your next career opportunity. We pride ourselves on our commitment to candidates and stick to our ethos of finding the right role for the right person. Visit our website or get in touch today to discuss this role, find out what else we've got or just for a chat about the state of your industry. Services advertised by Gold Group are those of an Agency and/or an Employment Business. Please be aware that we receive a high volume of applications for every role advertised and regularly receive applications from candidates who exceed the job credentials. We will only contact you within the next 14 days if you are selected for interview. A copy of our privacy policy can be found here: https://(url removed)/about-us/privacy-policy. Gold Group is an equal opportunity & diversity employer. A copy of our equal opportunity & diversity policy can be found here: https://(url removed)/about-us/equality-and-diversity-policy
Gold Group have a permanent opportunity for a Test Automation Lead to join a well-established company based in Kent.
The role is offering a salary of £38,000 – £48,000 per annum + Excellent company benefits.
Responsibilities
* Work with cross-functional Agile teams to ensure exceptional quality delivery of customer facing digital experiences
* Define automation standards, methodologies, toolsets, technologies and ways of working.
* Works closely with Agile Test Manager, Senior/Developers and Product Owner’s on a daily basis to understand functional requirements and acceptance criteria to ensure the build of quality products.
* Acts as the champion for both in sprint quality testing as well as overall functional, security, and performance automation testing to improve efficiencies
* Provides line management including coaching, career development, training, and support for Senior/Developers in Test.
* Supports the development of standards / tools / techniques for Agile testing.
* Collaborate with agile delivery teams to build and maintain automation test frameworks and test suites to support continuous delivery of exceptional quality
* Keeps up to date on the latest industry trends and openly shares thoughts amongst Testing Centre of Excellence on standards / tools / technologies / trends for automated testing.
* Produces regular test reports to the team, line manager, and IT programme functions
* Creation and maintenance of appropriate test environments for automation, ensuring consistent efficiency with support from Environment and Dev team
Skills and experience required
* Solid automated BDD and TDD experience, implementing frameworks (preferably Selenium
* Previous development experience: recognises what good quality code looks like (and flags refactoring required / peer reviews needed / individual’s development needs etc.)
* Strong Agile testing experience (Scrum/Kanban)
* Professionally recognised testing certification
* Test Lead experience of line management, mentoring, coaching and HR support of a small team (4-6 people)
* Exceptional communication skills with the ability to communicate clearly and concisely, verbally and in writing
* Good experience of Continuous Integration (CI), i.e TFS, VSTS, Jenkins
* Strong stakeholder management skills, particularly working closely with the Product Owner and Development team
This advert was posted by Gold Group - one of the UK's leading niche recruitment consultancies. We span a variety of specialist industries and are the recruitment company to help you find your next career opportunity. We pride ourselves on our commitment to candidates and stick to our ethos of finding the right role for the right person. Visit our website or get in touch today to discuss this role, find out what else we've got or just for a chat about the state of your industry. Services advertised by Gold Group are those of an Agency and/or an Employment Business. Please be aware that we receive a high volume of applications for every role advertised and regularly receive applications from candidates who exceed the job credentials. We will only contact you within the next 14 days if you are selected for interview. A copy of our privacy policy can be found here: https://(url removed)/about-us/privacy-policy. Gold Group is an equal opportunity & diversity employer. A copy of our equal opportunity & diversity policy can be found here: https://(url removed)/about-us/equality-and-diversity-policy
Oct 29, 2018
Gold Group have a permanent opportunity for a Test Automation Lead to join a well-established company based in Kent.
The role is offering a salary of £38,000 – £48,000 per annum + Excellent company benefits.
Responsibilities
* Work with cross-functional Agile teams to ensure exceptional quality delivery of customer facing digital experiences
* Define automation standards, methodologies, toolsets, technologies and ways of working.
* Works closely with Agile Test Manager, Senior/Developers and Product Owner’s on a daily basis to understand functional requirements and acceptance criteria to ensure the build of quality products.
* Acts as the champion for both in sprint quality testing as well as overall functional, security, and performance automation testing to improve efficiencies
* Provides line management including coaching, career development, training, and support for Senior/Developers in Test.
* Supports the development of standards / tools / techniques for Agile testing.
* Collaborate with agile delivery teams to build and maintain automation test frameworks and test suites to support continuous delivery of exceptional quality
* Keeps up to date on the latest industry trends and openly shares thoughts amongst Testing Centre of Excellence on standards / tools / technologies / trends for automated testing.
* Produces regular test reports to the team, line manager, and IT programme functions
* Creation and maintenance of appropriate test environments for automation, ensuring consistent efficiency with support from Environment and Dev team
Skills and experience required
* Solid automated BDD and TDD experience, implementing frameworks (preferably Selenium
* Previous development experience: recognises what good quality code looks like (and flags refactoring required / peer reviews needed / individual’s development needs etc.)
* Strong Agile testing experience (Scrum/Kanban)
* Professionally recognised testing certification
* Test Lead experience of line management, mentoring, coaching and HR support of a small team (4-6 people)
* Exceptional communication skills with the ability to communicate clearly and concisely, verbally and in writing
* Good experience of Continuous Integration (CI), i.e TFS, VSTS, Jenkins
* Strong stakeholder management skills, particularly working closely with the Product Owner and Development team
This advert was posted by Gold Group - one of the UK's leading niche recruitment consultancies. We span a variety of specialist industries and are the recruitment company to help you find your next career opportunity. We pride ourselves on our commitment to candidates and stick to our ethos of finding the right role for the right person. Visit our website or get in touch today to discuss this role, find out what else we've got or just for a chat about the state of your industry. Services advertised by Gold Group are those of an Agency and/or an Employment Business. Please be aware that we receive a high volume of applications for every role advertised and regularly receive applications from candidates who exceed the job credentials. We will only contact you within the next 14 days if you are selected for interview. A copy of our privacy policy can be found here: https://(url removed)/about-us/privacy-policy. Gold Group is an equal opportunity & diversity employer. A copy of our equal opportunity & diversity policy can be found here: https://(url removed)/about-us/equality-and-diversity-policy
Gold Group are seeking a Business Analyst to join our client a well-established Insurance company located in West Malling, Kent.
The vacancy is a permanent opportunity with a salary of up to £40k per annum depending on experience.
Key Duties & Responsibilities
* Developing strong working relationships with key business stakeholders.
* Extracting and anticipating requirements through interactions with stakeholders, document analysis, requirements workshops, and translating into technically appropriate specifications with relevant acceptance criteria.
* Working with the PMO to understand project prioritisation, gathering of high level requirements for management review and approval ahead of project kick-off.
* Demonstrating agile responsiveness to change and updates throughout delivery, while retaining control over the core requirement to avoid scope creep.
* Elicitation of ‘bigger picture’ requirements from specific requests to enable the most efficient methods of change, distinguishing core business needs over user preference.
* Differentiating Minimum Viable Product requirements from finer detail refinements in order to enable iterative delivery and review of core development in advance of the final product.
* Proactively communicating and collaborating with external and internal customers to analyse information needs and functional requirements, delivering artefacts as required (including but not limited to): high level business proposition document, detailed specification, conceptual prototyping/wireframe mock ups, user stories, use case and other UML diagrams.
* Working closely with the development team, or as part of Scrum delivery teams, to monitor progress of delivery, support sprint planning, and provide refinement for scope clarification.
* Risk awareness, and escalation to the PMO if delays, blockers or issues are revealed during in-flight development.
* Working closely with the PMO and Head of Development to implement effective business process modelling and workflow structures.
Other responsibilities
* The candidate may be required to travel to various offsite locations to meet with stakeholders from all business units and customers.
Knowledge/Skills and Experience
* A background in business analysis, with experience working in a structured project environment providing software solutions.
* A proven record in successful requirements gathering of complex medium to large projects within a high profile, pressurised environment.
* Exposure to delivering work streams across multiple simultaneous projects.
* The ability to be self-organising and use initiative within a developing remit in order to demonstrate success outside of structured processes.
* Strong written and verbal communication skills, including technical writing.
* Excellent customer interfacing, negotiation, and presentation skills, including the ability to drive change, and influence others to buy in to ideas.
* The ability to present confidently and competently to all levels of the business, internally and to external customers and suppliers, displaying strong business acumen and sensitivity.
* A high level of diligence, and attention to detail, commercial focus and a broad technical appreciation and understanding.
* An aptitude and desire to understand business processes, workflows, system architectures and component interaction and dependencies, with a drive to suggest improvements where appropriate.
* Tenacity, and the determination to question and challenge the status quo in a non- aggressive manner.
* Experience with modelling techniques and methods, prototyping applications, and a strong understanding of UX analysis to deliver customer-driven and delivery focused outputs.
The below skills are desirable but not essential
* Experience in, or a good understanding of, the conveyancing and/or insurance industry.
* Education at least to Batchelor’s degree level in a related field such as Business Analysis, Information Technology or Business Administration.
* Professional training and industry-recognised certification in business analysis methodology.
* Experience working within a range of methodologies, preferably demonstrating involvement in transition to Agile practices and the implementation of process change therein.
* Experience in Product Management, including Product Owner responsibilities, team leadership, and Scrum processes.
This advert was posted by Gold Group - one of the UK's leading niche recruitment consultancies. We span a variety of specialist industries and are the recruitment company to help you find your next career opportunity. We pride ourselves on our commitment to candidates and stick to our ethos of finding the right role for the right person. Visit our website or get in touch today to discuss this role, find out what else we've got or just for a chat about the state of your industry. Services advertised by Gold Group are those of an Agency and/or an Employment Business. Please be aware that we receive a high volume of applications for every role advertised and regularly receive applications from candidates who exceed the job credentials. We will only contact you within the next 14 days if you are selected for interview. A copy of our privacy policy can be found here: https://(url removed)/about-us/privacy-policy. Gold Group is an equal opportunity & diversity employer. A copy of our equal opportunity & diversity policy can be found here: https://(url removed)/about-us/equality-and-diversity-policy
Oct 29, 2018
Gold Group are seeking a Business Analyst to join our client a well-established Insurance company located in West Malling, Kent.
The vacancy is a permanent opportunity with a salary of up to £40k per annum depending on experience.
Key Duties & Responsibilities
* Developing strong working relationships with key business stakeholders.
* Extracting and anticipating requirements through interactions with stakeholders, document analysis, requirements workshops, and translating into technically appropriate specifications with relevant acceptance criteria.
* Working with the PMO to understand project prioritisation, gathering of high level requirements for management review and approval ahead of project kick-off.
* Demonstrating agile responsiveness to change and updates throughout delivery, while retaining control over the core requirement to avoid scope creep.
* Elicitation of ‘bigger picture’ requirements from specific requests to enable the most efficient methods of change, distinguishing core business needs over user preference.
* Differentiating Minimum Viable Product requirements from finer detail refinements in order to enable iterative delivery and review of core development in advance of the final product.
* Proactively communicating and collaborating with external and internal customers to analyse information needs and functional requirements, delivering artefacts as required (including but not limited to): high level business proposition document, detailed specification, conceptual prototyping/wireframe mock ups, user stories, use case and other UML diagrams.
* Working closely with the development team, or as part of Scrum delivery teams, to monitor progress of delivery, support sprint planning, and provide refinement for scope clarification.
* Risk awareness, and escalation to the PMO if delays, blockers or issues are revealed during in-flight development.
* Working closely with the PMO and Head of Development to implement effective business process modelling and workflow structures.
Other responsibilities
* The candidate may be required to travel to various offsite locations to meet with stakeholders from all business units and customers.
Knowledge/Skills and Experience
* A background in business analysis, with experience working in a structured project environment providing software solutions.
* A proven record in successful requirements gathering of complex medium to large projects within a high profile, pressurised environment.
* Exposure to delivering work streams across multiple simultaneous projects.
* The ability to be self-organising and use initiative within a developing remit in order to demonstrate success outside of structured processes.
* Strong written and verbal communication skills, including technical writing.
* Excellent customer interfacing, negotiation, and presentation skills, including the ability to drive change, and influence others to buy in to ideas.
* The ability to present confidently and competently to all levels of the business, internally and to external customers and suppliers, displaying strong business acumen and sensitivity.
* A high level of diligence, and attention to detail, commercial focus and a broad technical appreciation and understanding.
* An aptitude and desire to understand business processes, workflows, system architectures and component interaction and dependencies, with a drive to suggest improvements where appropriate.
* Tenacity, and the determination to question and challenge the status quo in a non- aggressive manner.
* Experience with modelling techniques and methods, prototyping applications, and a strong understanding of UX analysis to deliver customer-driven and delivery focused outputs.
The below skills are desirable but not essential
* Experience in, or a good understanding of, the conveyancing and/or insurance industry.
* Education at least to Batchelor’s degree level in a related field such as Business Analysis, Information Technology or Business Administration.
* Professional training and industry-recognised certification in business analysis methodology.
* Experience working within a range of methodologies, preferably demonstrating involvement in transition to Agile practices and the implementation of process change therein.
* Experience in Product Management, including Product Owner responsibilities, team leadership, and Scrum processes.
This advert was posted by Gold Group - one of the UK's leading niche recruitment consultancies. We span a variety of specialist industries and are the recruitment company to help you find your next career opportunity. We pride ourselves on our commitment to candidates and stick to our ethos of finding the right role for the right person. Visit our website or get in touch today to discuss this role, find out what else we've got or just for a chat about the state of your industry. Services advertised by Gold Group are those of an Agency and/or an Employment Business. Please be aware that we receive a high volume of applications for every role advertised and regularly receive applications from candidates who exceed the job credentials. We will only contact you within the next 14 days if you are selected for interview. A copy of our privacy policy can be found here: https://(url removed)/about-us/privacy-policy. Gold Group is an equal opportunity & diversity employer. A copy of our equal opportunity & diversity policy can be found here: https://(url removed)/about-us/equality-and-diversity-policy
Gold Group Recruitment are seeking an Information Assurance Specialist to join our client’s internal IT Security Group. This opportunity is based in Surrey and is offering a salary of up to £63k per annum depending on experience.
The IT Security Group is the lead for all cyber security related activity within the company and its functions are split into two areas;
Governance, Accreditation and Compliance - providing security advice and guidance to the wider IT Department to support IT projects and change management and to the business with regard to accreditation, customer requests, service requests and general user queries
IT Security Operations - providing effective security monitoring, testing and analysis of the IT infrastructure
Responsibilities for the Information Assurance Specialist:
* Understand the different compliance frameworks required by the business (including, but not limited to, ISO 27001, MOD DAIS, Cyber Essentials, MOD Cyber Profiles, Australian DoD, etc)
* Engagement with the broader security industry and community to ensure company is aware of current and future threats, and is aligned with industry best practise.
* Develop contacts with relevant IT Accreditors and key customer IT Security functions.
* Review and update of the adequacy and completeness of IT Security documentation against changing customer and regulatory requirements including defence, civil nuclear, commercial, and data protection, and in the light of emerging risks.
* Support the accreditation processes, working with internal and external stakeholders to acquire and maintain all required security certifications.
* Liaise with other governance process holders, both in the IT department and the wider business, to ensure security best practise is correctly included in applicable procedures.
* Creation and maintenance of the IT security standards and other documentation to enable delegation of day to day IT security tasks to the IT Operations Group.
* Provide advice and guidance to IT Department projects, reviews, change requests and development processes
* Provide advice and guidance to the wider business regarding customer requests, service requests and general user queries
* Manage 3rd party cyber security audit processes
* Undertake security audits across IT systems, applications, processes and projects.
* Keep current with the latest threats, vulnerabilities and developments in cyber security.
* Taking an active part in security incident response
* Taking an active part in the continuous improvement processes with the wider IT department to ensure that security improvements are completed
* Identification and analysis of vulnerabilities within the Companies IT infrastructure, prioritising them in the context of the business
* Ensuring the IT security tools and systems are implemented and upgraded in line with industry best practise or vendor recommendation, and ensuring all security systems remain fit for purpose.
* Maintain relationships with key IT security suppliers to ensure continued delivery of service
* Information Assurance
* Adhere to the Company Information Assurance Manual and Handbook of Security Procedures.
* Ensure that the appropriate levels of protection, storage and access control are applied to all information in the company’s possession.
* Adhere to the acceptable use policy for all company IT systems and resources to which they have been granted access.
* Ensure the physical security of the Companies premises when responsible for the locking up process.
Although individual specialists will have specific lead responsibilities, they will be expected to be able to take on any of the duties of the IT Security group when required, and hence are expected to have a range of skills from both categories below.
Skills, Knowledge and Experience required
* Developing IT security department processes and procedures
* Understanding and developing controls in line with ISO 27000, Cyber Essentials, CIS (SANS) cyber controls & CSA Cloud cyber controls
* Conducting, or participating, in internal and external audit processes
* Broad IT knowledge to be able to provide security input into a range of projects
* Understanding and analysing system vulnerabilities
* Identification of remediation activities, working alongside IT Operations and Infrastructure Groups
* Understanding attack vectors and exploitation of vulnerabilities
* Understand firewall, network and server logs
* Network traffic capture and analysis.
* Understand the features of modern security monitoring systems
* The ability to analyse events and reported incidents
The Information Assurance Specialist should have experience in the following types of security tools
* Vulnerability scanning and analysis
* Enterprise SIEMs
* Network and host Intrusion Detection Systems
* Endpoint security and monitoring solutions
* Digital Forensics & Incident Response (DFIR) tools
* Qualifications
* Relevant cyber security qualifications are desirable, but not obligatory. Candidates will be assessed on their experience and capability. Relevant qualifications include:
* 27000 Lead Implementer or Auditor
* CISSP
* SANS GCIA & GCIH
* Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH)
* CCSP
This advert was posted by Gold Group - one of the UK's leading niche recruitment consultancies. We span a variety of specialist industries and are the recruitment company to help you find your next career opportunity. We pride ourselves on our commitment to candidates and stick to our ethos of finding the right role for the right person. Visit our website or get in touch today to discuss this role, find out what else we've got or just for a chat about the state of your industry. Services advertised by Gold Group are those of an Agency and/or an Employment Business. Please be aware that we receive a high volume of applications for every role advertised and regularly receive applications from candidates who exceed the job credentials. We will only contact you within the next 14 days if you are selected for interview. A copy of our privacy policy can be found here: https://(url removed)/about-us/privacy-policy. Gold Group is an equal opportunity & diversity employer. A copy of our equal opportunity & diversity policy can be found here: https://(url removed)/about-us/equality-and-diversity-policy
Oct 29, 2018
Gold Group Recruitment are seeking an Information Assurance Specialist to join our client’s internal IT Security Group. This opportunity is based in Surrey and is offering a salary of up to £63k per annum depending on experience.
The IT Security Group is the lead for all cyber security related activity within the company and its functions are split into two areas;
Governance, Accreditation and Compliance - providing security advice and guidance to the wider IT Department to support IT projects and change management and to the business with regard to accreditation, customer requests, service requests and general user queries
IT Security Operations - providing effective security monitoring, testing and analysis of the IT infrastructure
Responsibilities for the Information Assurance Specialist:
* Understand the different compliance frameworks required by the business (including, but not limited to, ISO 27001, MOD DAIS, Cyber Essentials, MOD Cyber Profiles, Australian DoD, etc)
* Engagement with the broader security industry and community to ensure company is aware of current and future threats, and is aligned with industry best practise.
* Develop contacts with relevant IT Accreditors and key customer IT Security functions.
* Review and update of the adequacy and completeness of IT Security documentation against changing customer and regulatory requirements including defence, civil nuclear, commercial, and data protection, and in the light of emerging risks.
* Support the accreditation processes, working with internal and external stakeholders to acquire and maintain all required security certifications.
* Liaise with other governance process holders, both in the IT department and the wider business, to ensure security best practise is correctly included in applicable procedures.
* Creation and maintenance of the IT security standards and other documentation to enable delegation of day to day IT security tasks to the IT Operations Group.
* Provide advice and guidance to IT Department projects, reviews, change requests and development processes
* Provide advice and guidance to the wider business regarding customer requests, service requests and general user queries
* Manage 3rd party cyber security audit processes
* Undertake security audits across IT systems, applications, processes and projects.
* Keep current with the latest threats, vulnerabilities and developments in cyber security.
* Taking an active part in security incident response
* Taking an active part in the continuous improvement processes with the wider IT department to ensure that security improvements are completed
* Identification and analysis of vulnerabilities within the Companies IT infrastructure, prioritising them in the context of the business
* Ensuring the IT security tools and systems are implemented and upgraded in line with industry best practise or vendor recommendation, and ensuring all security systems remain fit for purpose.
* Maintain relationships with key IT security suppliers to ensure continued delivery of service
* Information Assurance
* Adhere to the Company Information Assurance Manual and Handbook of Security Procedures.
* Ensure that the appropriate levels of protection, storage and access control are applied to all information in the company’s possession.
* Adhere to the acceptable use policy for all company IT systems and resources to which they have been granted access.
* Ensure the physical security of the Companies premises when responsible for the locking up process.
Although individual specialists will have specific lead responsibilities, they will be expected to be able to take on any of the duties of the IT Security group when required, and hence are expected to have a range of skills from both categories below.
Skills, Knowledge and Experience required
* Developing IT security department processes and procedures
* Understanding and developing controls in line with ISO 27000, Cyber Essentials, CIS (SANS) cyber controls & CSA Cloud cyber controls
* Conducting, or participating, in internal and external audit processes
* Broad IT knowledge to be able to provide security input into a range of projects
* Understanding and analysing system vulnerabilities
* Identification of remediation activities, working alongside IT Operations and Infrastructure Groups
* Understanding attack vectors and exploitation of vulnerabilities
* Understand firewall, network and server logs
* Network traffic capture and analysis.
* Understand the features of modern security monitoring systems
* The ability to analyse events and reported incidents
The Information Assurance Specialist should have experience in the following types of security tools
* Vulnerability scanning and analysis
* Enterprise SIEMs
* Network and host Intrusion Detection Systems
* Endpoint security and monitoring solutions
* Digital Forensics & Incident Response (DFIR) tools
* Qualifications
* Relevant cyber security qualifications are desirable, but not obligatory. Candidates will be assessed on their experience and capability. Relevant qualifications include:
* 27000 Lead Implementer or Auditor
* CISSP
* SANS GCIA & GCIH
* Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH)
* CCSP
This advert was posted by Gold Group - one of the UK's leading niche recruitment consultancies. We span a variety of specialist industries and are the recruitment company to help you find your next career opportunity. We pride ourselves on our commitment to candidates and stick to our ethos of finding the right role for the right person. Visit our website or get in touch today to discuss this role, find out what else we've got or just for a chat about the state of your industry. Services advertised by Gold Group are those of an Agency and/or an Employment Business. Please be aware that we receive a high volume of applications for every role advertised and regularly receive applications from candidates who exceed the job credentials. We will only contact you within the next 14 days if you are selected for interview. A copy of our privacy policy can be found here: https://(url removed)/about-us/privacy-policy. Gold Group is an equal opportunity & diversity employer. A copy of our equal opportunity & diversity policy can be found here: https://(url removed)/about-us/equality-and-diversity-policy
Gold Group have a permanent opportunity for a Test Automation Lead to join a well-established company based in Kent.
The role is offering a salary of £38,000 – £48,000 per annum + Excellent company benefits.
Responsibilities
* Work with cross-functional Agile teams to ensure exceptional quality delivery of customer facing digital experiences
* Define automation standards, methodologies, toolsets, technologies and ways of working.
* Works closely with Agile Test Manager, Senior/Developers and Product Owner’s on a daily basis to understand functional requirements and acceptance criteria to ensure the build of quality products.
* Acts as the champion for both in sprint quality testing as well as overall functional, security, and performance automation testing to improve efficiencies
* Provides line management including coaching, career development, training, and support for Senior/Developers in Test.
* Supports the development of standards / tools / techniques for Agile testing.
* Collaborate with agile delivery teams to build and maintain automation test frameworks and test suites to support continuous delivery of exceptional quality
* Keeps up to date on the latest industry trends and openly shares thoughts amongst Testing Centre of Excellence on standards / tools / technologies / trends for automated testing.
* Produces regular test reports to the team, line manager, and IT programme functions
* Creation and maintenance of appropriate test environments for automation, ensuring consistent efficiency with support from Environment and Dev team
Skills and experience required
* Solid automated BDD and TDD experience, implementing frameworks (preferably Selenium
* Previous development experience: recognises what good quality code looks like (and flags refactoring required / peer reviews needed / individual’s development needs etc.)
* Strong Agile testing experience (Scrum/Kanban)
* Professionally recognised testing certification
* Test Lead experience of line management, mentoring, coaching and HR support of a small team (4-6 people)
* Exceptional communication skills with the ability to communicate clearly and concisely, verbally and in writing
* Good experience of Continuous Integration (CI), i.e TFS, VSTS, Jenkins
* Strong stakeholder management skills, particularly working closely with the Product Owner and Development team
This advert was posted by Gold Group - one of the UK's leading niche recruitment consultancies. We span a variety of specialist industries and are the recruitment company to help you find your next career opportunity. We pride ourselves on our commitment to candidates and stick to our ethos of finding the right role for the right person. Visit our website or get in touch today to discuss this role, find out what else we've got or just for a chat about the state of your industry. Services advertised by Gold Group are those of an Agency and/or an Employment Business. Please be aware that we receive a high volume of applications for every role advertised and regularly receive applications from candidates who exceed the job credentials. We will only contact you within the next 14 days if you are selected for interview. A copy of our privacy policy can be found here: https://(url removed)/about-us/privacy-policy. Gold Group is an equal opportunity & diversity employer. A copy of our equal opportunity & diversity policy can be found here: https://(url removed)/about-us/equality-and-diversity-policy
Oct 29, 2018
Gold Group have a permanent opportunity for a Test Automation Lead to join a well-established company based in Kent.
The role is offering a salary of £38,000 – £48,000 per annum + Excellent company benefits.
Responsibilities
* Work with cross-functional Agile teams to ensure exceptional quality delivery of customer facing digital experiences
* Define automation standards, methodologies, toolsets, technologies and ways of working.
* Works closely with Agile Test Manager, Senior/Developers and Product Owner’s on a daily basis to understand functional requirements and acceptance criteria to ensure the build of quality products.
* Acts as the champion for both in sprint quality testing as well as overall functional, security, and performance automation testing to improve efficiencies
* Provides line management including coaching, career development, training, and support for Senior/Developers in Test.
* Supports the development of standards / tools / techniques for Agile testing.
* Collaborate with agile delivery teams to build and maintain automation test frameworks and test suites to support continuous delivery of exceptional quality
* Keeps up to date on the latest industry trends and openly shares thoughts amongst Testing Centre of Excellence on standards / tools / technologies / trends for automated testing.
* Produces regular test reports to the team, line manager, and IT programme functions
* Creation and maintenance of appropriate test environments for automation, ensuring consistent efficiency with support from Environment and Dev team
Skills and experience required
* Solid automated BDD and TDD experience, implementing frameworks (preferably Selenium
* Previous development experience: recognises what good quality code looks like (and flags refactoring required / peer reviews needed / individual’s development needs etc.)
* Strong Agile testing experience (Scrum/Kanban)
* Professionally recognised testing certification
* Test Lead experience of line management, mentoring, coaching and HR support of a small team (4-6 people)
* Exceptional communication skills with the ability to communicate clearly and concisely, verbally and in writing
* Good experience of Continuous Integration (CI), i.e TFS, VSTS, Jenkins
* Strong stakeholder management skills, particularly working closely with the Product Owner and Development team
This advert was posted by Gold Group - one of the UK's leading niche recruitment consultancies. We span a variety of specialist industries and are the recruitment company to help you find your next career opportunity. We pride ourselves on our commitment to candidates and stick to our ethos of finding the right role for the right person. Visit our website or get in touch today to discuss this role, find out what else we've got or just for a chat about the state of your industry. Services advertised by Gold Group are those of an Agency and/or an Employment Business. Please be aware that we receive a high volume of applications for every role advertised and regularly receive applications from candidates who exceed the job credentials. We will only contact you within the next 14 days if you are selected for interview. A copy of our privacy policy can be found here: https://(url removed)/about-us/privacy-policy. Gold Group is an equal opportunity & diversity employer. A copy of our equal opportunity & diversity policy can be found here: https://(url removed)/about-us/equality-and-diversity-policy