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It’s an exciting time to join one of our Early Careers programmes at QinetiQ. We are always looking for great people to join our team, whether you are taking your first steps in starting a career or you are looking to make a career change, we have a wide range of exciting opportunities for you.

Role Purpose:
The role of the Security Engineer within IT Operations support Services is primarily responsible for the Operational support and assist with assuring the confidentiality, availability and integrity of information stored and processed on information technology (IT) systems for which Group IT have responsibility across all QinetiQ sites. Support is in collaboration with the Tier 1 and Tier 3 support teams. Occasionally engineers will be required to assist operational teams in problem management across the same technical space.

Key Accountabilities to Aspire to:
Assisting to deploy, maintain and report on the effectiveness of security controls relevant to QQ’s Global IT Estate;

Assisting to make continuous improvements to the security posture of the IT estate;

Maintaining a current knowledge of security trends, threats and vulnerabilities;

Working collaboratively with IT community;

Investigating and deploying mitigations to known and emerging vulnerabilities;

Assisting with the assessment of security aspects of future proposed projects;

Assisting to support key components that comprise of the PKI “Public Key Infrastructure”, this includes CA “Certificate Authority” Servers and Thales Hardware Security Modules;

Assisting to ensure timely creation/application of certificates across all domains on within QinetiQ estate;

Maintain a level of knowledge on new technologies sufficient to understand their applicability to our customer base and to implement and support them, if appropriate;

Assist to ensure that PKI / Certificate documentation are well maintained, configuration records for all CA Servers, including records of software version of all equipment and also of all certificates issued by the environments;

Assist to identify and develop methods and procedures to continuously improve information assurance and data privacy within the current portfolio of solutions, as well as the analysis and remedial work during security incidents;

Contribute to Group IT’s disaster recovery capabilities;

Develop and maintain knowledge in PKI & Encryption Techniques / Algorithms;

Develop and maintain knowledge in Cyber Security;

Keep up-to date with enhancements in Public Key Infrastructure technologies;

Maintain system security assurance;

Assist to ensure all cyber security vulnerabilities are prioritised and accordingly remediated;

Assist to ensure software and hardware patches and updates are applied in accordance with relevant policies;

All mandatory training is under taken.

Key Capabilities/Knowledge:
Be able to work under pressure.

Have concern for excellence and service improvement.

Commitment to set, achieve and maintain a high quality service.

To be relied upon to take a task through from conception to completion.

Excellent time management skills.

Customer focus and vision

Drive and determination

Good problem and analytical skills

Flexible approach to working

Experience and Qualifications:
Must have attained or be predicted, 5 GCSE's A*-C, 5-9 must include English Language, Maths, Technology & ICT and 2 other subjects

The Ability to obtain a Full driving licence in the future

Additional Requirements:
Please be aware that many roles within QinetiQ will be subject to both security and export control restrictions. These restrictions mean that factors including your nationality, any previous nationalities you have held, and your place of birth may limit those roles you can perform for the organisation.

You must be prepared to go through the Government Vetting process. For further details please refer to, United Kingdom Security Vetting - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

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Why join QinetiQ?

As a global company of over 6,000 dedicated people providing technological and scientific expertise, we are excited to recruit the most talented and enthusiastic people to become key parts of our business. Our Early Careers programmes give you the opportunity to be at the heart of impactful projects.

Diversity and inclusion

In our unique working environment, teams from different backgrounds collaborate widely on some of the world’s most complex defence and security challenges. Whatever part you play, you’ll get to experience what happens when we all share different perspectives, blend disciplines, and link technologies. It’s a diverse and inclusive environment where you can be authentic, feel valued and realise your full potential. Together, we’ll explore new ways of protecting the world around us.

Your wellbeing

Looking after the health and wellbeing of our employees are our top priority. We offer a host of services designed to support your wellbeing. They range from our Thrive app and Employee Assistance Programme to Mental Health First Aiders. The wellbeing of our employees is critical to our collective and individual success.

Rewards and benefits

We offer global career progression and the opportunity to work on a broad range of interesting projects along with a wide range of rewards and recognition. Our highly competitive salaries come with a raft of benefits, from a performance-based Employee Incentive Scheme to Thank Q, our global recognition scheme. There’s also a Share Incentive Plan, Life Assurance and Benefits+, our flexible benefits package. It’s all designed to make life easier for you.

About QinetiQ

Being part of QinetiQ means being central to the safety and security of the world around us. Partnering with our customers, we help to save lives; reduce risks to society; and maintain the global infrastructure on which we all depend.

With a focus on protecting the world around us, we have a target to reduce our greenhouse gas emissions by 2025 and we are developing a global plan for net zero by March 2022. Being a responsible and sustainable business is at the heart of our identity.

Come and find out how you can play your part.