(Senior) Platform Security Engineer - AZURE d/f/m

To start as soon as possible, full time, permanent

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Cloud and Data Center (C&DC) support servers, databases, storage, Azure Cloud & physical infrastructure for the whole of the RWE Group.

This support includes round-the-clock provision of platform services and development operations in collaboration with Managed Service Provider partners.

• Engineering: Improving services & products to meet business needs. Design, consultancy, standard setting and 3rd line support.
• Automation & Development: accelerating & improving services through end-to-end automation & high quality code development
• Operations: daily operational support & financial management, including operational availability, deployment patching, incident resolution, request fulfilment.

• Senior technical expert / SME for Microsoft Azure platform security, policies and IT/general security representative for topics within the Cloud & Data Centre team's remit.
• Be responsible for the detailed design and maintenance for support of RWE's Cloud and Data Centre (C&DC) security and policies in conjunction with other SME's, Cyber Security, Cloud Service Providers (CSPs) and Managed Service Providers (MSPs).
• Taking a lead from Cyber Security, create and maintain forward looking roadmaps for Azure security topics.
• Communicate and define RWE IT requirements and standards to the MSP teams and ensure adherence as well as to provide technical leadership to the teams.
• Support the Cyber Security Incident Response Team (CSIRT) and MSPs to help solve Microsoft Azure related security incidents.
• Work with Cyber Security, Enterprise Architects and other SMEs to support their strategy and create supportable, secure solutions.
• Operationalise security standards, policies and tooling as described by Cyber Security, and provide input for security assessments and audits.
• Work with Azure Platform and other SMEs in consulting to application teams towards migrating workloads, remediating platform service issues, and providing relevant guidance.
• Drive continuous service improvements including automation of operational processes and remediations; especially focusing on enhancing customer experience, reducing inefficiency and duplication, and accelerating speed to delivery.
• Directly support and if appropriate run project deliveries that impact C&DC security posture.
• Ensure ITIL procedures are adhered to and monitor / actively manage the resolution of incidents, problems and change requests for C&DC.
• Provide guidance and support for team members to foster growth.

• ~7 years technical IT and/or Cloud Security experience with a focus on MS Azure.
• Extensive experience understanding, impact assessing and implementing Azure IAM roles, policies, security groups, NACLs, encryption etc.
• Extensive experience using data-in-transit / certificate management, data-at-rest and key management
• Experienced in use of Azure PaaS.
• Excellent experience using Azure logging.
• Experience of data centres and remote site security.
• Excellent experience working with third party providers and managed service providers.
• Excellent diagnostic and problem-solving capabilities.
• Strong communication and networking skills.
• Experience governing externals or managed service providers.
• Strong understanding of cloud benefits and ideally extensive experience working with Azure.
• Adept at both working autonomously and as part of a team to deliver solutions that tackle high complexity problems.
• Willingness to travel. Mostly (up to four days a month) between Germany and the UK. Global travel as required.
• Strong motivation to continuously improve knowledge on IT and soft skill topics.
• Ability to work closely with IT architects and project managers on both technical and planning topics in context related to the topics.
• Articulate complex technical topics in an understandable manner to staff members who are not in the technical detail.
• Understanding business and IT requirements, and translate into IT infrastructure solutions.

• Knowledge and experience of interculture working.
• Open minded.
• Experience of user centric decision making.
• Self-confident speaking at all levels.
• Connecting people.
• Ready to adapt to organisational change.
• Attend IT events, summits, and other events to network with people from other companies and gain insights about new solutions and trends.
• Experience with recruitment & retention processes

• Contributing to the Cloud and Data Centre journey from the start and influencing the operational and roadmap decisions.
• Responsibility for IT services used by all RWE staff globally.
• Dynamic environment with opportunity to own digital change and improvements.
• Daily interaction with key customers across all RWE OpCos.
• Working closely with multi-national external service providers.
• Competitive salary and benefits package plus annual discretionary bonus.
• Open and diverse company culture.
• Flexible working hours and hybrid working.

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RWE Supply & Trading is the interface between RWE and the energy markets around the world. Approximately 2000 employees from over 50 different countries trade (renewable) electricity, (green) gas, commodities and CO2 emission allowances. The trading entity also ensures the commercial optimisation of RWE's power plant dispatch and markets electricity from renewables.