Security Engineer
Avnet
Overview
As a Security Engineer, you will own key security initiatives, drive improvements, and shape the organisation's security capabilities within a global team. You’ll conduct risk assessments, develop security policies, and ensure GDPR compliance, while collaborating across functions. The role offers high autonomy, hybrid work, and opportunities to advance your career. You will help protect information systems and communicate security effectively to non-technical stakeholders.
Pay / Benefits- Pension scheme
- Cash Plan Healthcare Scheme
- 25 days holiday plus bank holidays
- Free onsite parking
- Free onsite gym
- Flexible home working
- Conduct security risk assessments and audits and recommend risk-mitigating actions
- Develop, maintain and publish security policies and standards
- Ensure compliance with GIS data security programs and GDPR
- Enforce and monitor security standards, procedures and guidelines
- Provide technical guidance on information security issues
- Identify intrusions and recommend improvements
- Evaluate security technologies such as data loss prevention, firewalls, and intrusion detection
- Share security knowledge with employees and business units
- Manage provisioning/de-provisioning and access levels for cybersecurity tools
- Act as regional point of contact for the team
- Design and implement protection of information systems assets and data
- Interface with user communities to identify security needs and implement procedures
- Communicate security policies and monitor compliance
- Evaluate security level requirements
- Extensive experience in a similar security role
- Ability to develop solutions to complex problems with in-depth analysis
- Strong knowledge of core security principles, theories and concepts
- Ability to propose improvements to policies and procedures
- Proven capability to address complex security issues effectively
- Critical thinking and adaptability to evolving security challenges
- Strong written and verbal communication to convey technical information to non-technical stakeholders
- Collaborative mindset for global team work and shared security goals
- Ideally experience with Crowdstrike, Cribl, Netskope and ArmorCode
- strong communication skills
- collaborative mindset
- critical thinking
- CrowdStrike
- Cribl
- Netskope
Reference: WJ-747_31190201