Senior Infrastructure and Security Engineer at Verisk

We help the world see new possibilities and inspire change for better tomorrows. Our analytic solutions bridge content, data, and analytics to help business, people, and society become stronger, more resilient, and sustainable.

For the past 25 years, Sequel Business Solutions has grown from being a trusted consultancy to becoming a leading insurance and reinsurance software specialist. With our headquarters based in London EC2, we employ talented insurance and technical experts who understand the market and our clients’ business.

Now, as part of the Verisk Analytics family, that legacy is even stronger. Aligning with the world’s leading data analytics company extends our ability to help clients overcome the toughest challenges.

Together we deliver a powerful suite of software which provide full end-to-end management of all insurance and reinsurance business. Our clients are able to grow and better manage their business through greater efficiency, flexibility, and data governance.

Role purpose:

• To work within the IT infrastructure engineering team, contributing to development and implementation of information service and technology solutions as used by the company at large.
• To lead efforts by the security operations team in pursuance of mitigation of security risks and issues.

Main responsibilities: 

• Working with team members and internal stakeholder to design and implement IS&T solutions and changes, including both technical design and business/operational design elements.
• Participation in security operations management across various estates, including tracking and reporting on vulnerability status, working with info-sec and governance owners to define and track information security risks, and working on initiatives to risk reduce technology use within the business.

Core expertise and skills:

• Security engineering including firewalling, vulnerability remediation.
• Technical stewardship of third-party pen testing and analysis of results.
• Identity management and access control solutions (IAM, RBAC, ABAC eg Sailpoint ID now, Okta etc).
• Public cloud technologies (AWS, Azure).
• Private cloud (VCD in particular) and hypervisors (Vmware stack in particular).
• Networking L2,L3 including routing protocols, OSI, VPN (IPSEC, SSL), TCP/IP suite (DNS, DHCP, TLS), CDNs, NAT, reverse proxying.
• Windows operating system platforms.
• Experience in working in a large enterprise ITSM environment.
• Experience of working in a delivery-assurance environment, including experience of working within both agile and linear/waterfall delivery processes.
• Experience in working in a service outsourced environment / experience working with multiple service partners.
• Experience working in a change managed/release managed environment.
• Experience working within a risk managed/ ISMS environment.
• Automation and scripting expertise (e.g. PowerShell, Phyton, Rundeck, Ansible).
• Familiarity with backup, recovery, and replication technologies (eg Comvault, Veeam, Zerto)
• Good understanding of business continuity processes and practices.
• Experience of ESD / patch management technologies (e.g. Microsoft SCCM, Avanti patch manager).
• Experience of report and MI generation for use by executive decision-making process.
• Effective communication skills / high level of technical English fluency.
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Beneficial expertise and skills:

• ITIL certified (foundation v3 or v4).
• Experience of database services administration e.g. SQL server config, PaaS / database as a service administration.
• AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner.
• Experience drafting operational procedures/run books.
• Experience drafting design reference/documentation.
• *nix operating system platforms (e.g. various Linux distros).
• Participation in pre-sales technical consultancy (not necessarily customer facing).
• Involvement in supporting SaaS / PaaS solutions, e.g. 3rd line engineering support.
• Familiarity with service/site reliability design/fault domain design etc.
• Experience of presenting / reporting to higher management.

For over 50 years, Verisk has been the leading data analytics and technology partner to the global insurance industry by delivering value to our clients through expertise and scale. We empower communities and businesses to make better decisions on risk, faster.

At Verisk, you'll have the chance to use your voice and build a rewarding career that's as unique as you are, with work flexibility and the support, coaching, and training you need to succeed. 

For the eighth consecutive year, Verisk is proudly recognized as a Great Place to Work® for outstanding workplace culture in the US, fourth consecutive year in the UK, Spain, and India, and second consecutive year in Poland.  We value learning, caring and results and make inclusivity and diversity a top priority.  In addition to our Great Place to Work® Certification, we’ve been recognized by The Wall Street Journal as one of the Best-Managed Companies and by Forbes as a World’s Best Employer and Best Employer for Women, testaments to the value we place on workplace culture.

We’re 7,000 people strong.  We relentlessly and ethically pursue innovation. And we are looking for people like you to help us translate big data into big ideas. Join us and create an exceptional experience for yourself and a better tomorrow for future generations.

Verisk Businesses

Underwriting Solutions — provides underwriting and rating solutions for auto and property, general liability, and excess and surplus to assess and price risk with speed and precision

Claims Solutions — supports end-to-end claims handling with analytic and automation tools that streamline workflow, improve claims management, and support better customer experiences

Property Estimating Solutions — offers property estimation software and tools for professionals in estimating all phases of building and repair to make day-to-day workflows the most efficient

Extreme Event Solutions — provides risk modeling solutions to help individuals, businesses, and society become more resilient to extreme events.

Specialty Business Solutions — provides an integrated suite of software for full end-to-end management of insurance and reinsurance business, helping companies manage their businesses through efficiency, flexibility, and data governance

Marketing Solutions — delivers data and insights to improve the reach, timing, relevance, and compliance of every consumer engagement

Life Insurance Solutions – offers end-to-end, data insight-driven core capabilities for carriers, distribution, and direct customers across the entire policy lifecycle of life and annuities for both individual and group.

Verisk Maplecroft — provides intelligence on sustainability, resilience, and ESG, helping people, business, and societies become stronger

Verisk Analytics is an equal opportunity employer.

All members of the Verisk Analytics family of companies are equal opportunity employers. We consider all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, citizenship, sex, gender identity and/or expression, sexual orientation, veteran's status, age or disability. Verisk’s minimum hiring age is 18 except in countries with a higher age limit subject to applicable law.

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