Senior Cyber Security Engineer

WeAreTechWomen - Palo Alto, CA

Full-time - Mid Level

Palo Alto, CA

About the position

The Senior Cyber Security Engineer role at BAE Systems involves supporting the review and management of security configurations, particularly within the Atlassian Stack. This position is crucial for maintaining security standards and ensuring the effective operation of security tools and processes. The engineer will also mentor team members and collaborate with the Cyber Security Engineering team to enhance security capabilities and contribute to the overall security architecture.

Responsibilities

• Support the review of firewall rule requests acting as a Security approver
• Provide reviews of Security feature configurations on the firewalls
• Maintenance of the Atlassian Stack including Jira, Confluence, and Bitbucket
• Manage user permissions, workflows, and integrations for Atlassian tools
• Resolve Atlassian application performance issues and related problems
• PostgreSQL Database maintenance and troubleshooting
• Handle ticket queues to ensure timely resolution for end-user issues
• Create and maintain Confluence spaces, Jira projects, workflows, and Bitbucket repositories
• Provide knowledge transfer to colleagues and stakeholders on Atlassian Stack tools
• Analyse, test and document deployment strategy of the Atlassian Stack
• Create documentation, standard operating procedures and granular process checklists
• Managing and mentoring team members while providing an escalation point where required
• Work with Cyber Security Engineering team to integrate new capabilities, plan life cycle replacements, and provide input into the security architecture roadmaps

Requirements

• Proven experience in the installation, configuration, and maintenance of the Atlassian Stack tools including Jira, Confluence, and BitBucket
• Experience in PostgreSQL maintenance and troubleshooting
• Good experience with Linux (mainly RHEL) Operating Systems
• Detailed understanding of Network troubleshooting
• Experience of Firewall architectures (Palo Alto, Juniper, Cisco)
• Knowledge of Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) tools

Benefits

• Competitive pension scheme
• Employee share plans
• Flexible discounted health, wellbeing and lifestyle benefits
• Green car scheme
• Private health plans
• Shopping discounts
• Eligibility for an annual incentive