{"id":671,"date":"2018-06-07T14:12:23","date_gmt":"2018-06-07T13:12:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/soc-employability\/?p=671"},"modified":"2018-06-07T14:18:48","modified_gmt":"2018-06-07T13:18:48","slug":"1st-line-support-engineer-maidstone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/soc-employability\/2018\/06\/07\/1st-line-support-engineer-maidstone\/","title":{"rendered":"1st Line Support Engineer &#8211; Maidstone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SecureData is a specialist cybersecurity services and solutions company and are currently seeking an ambitious and driven 1st Line Support Engineer to join their team in Maidstone, Kent.<\/p>\n<p>SecureData look after cybersecurity for a range of business organisations. They have a very broad range of services ranging from security assessments, implementing solutions, support and managed services. SecureData is unique due to their deep expertise and track record, breadth of offering as a dedicated cybersecurity services business, and the quality of their work.<\/p>\n<p>As our 1st Line Support Engineer, you will report to the SOC Manager and will provide support for security products including firewalls, VPN and intrusion detection as a part of our busy Secure Operations Centre. You will be capable of working under pressure, possess excellent customer service and communication skills, and have a logical, methodical approach to troubleshooting.<\/p>\n<p>You will ideally be an energetic and enthusiastic graduate looking to start a new career in the IT Security Industry!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Your key responsibilities will include the following<\/strong>:<br \/>\n\u2022 Being the first point of call for customers who need to raise an incident<br \/>\n\u2022 Answering customer queries via telephone and email<br \/>\n\u2022 Logging and updating tickets as quick as possible, ensuring the highest accuracy at all times<br \/>\n\u2022 Logging and assessing monitoring and threat event alerts<br \/>\n\u2022 Ensuring timely escalation to next level engineers\/management<br \/>\n\u2022 Low level project work<br \/>\n\u2022 Undertaking training as required<br \/>\n\u2022 You will be required to undertake shift work which include early, core, and late shifts. There is also weekend work required roughly once every two months.<\/p>\n<p><strong>You must have the following skills and experience:<\/strong><br \/>\n\u2022 You will possess some networking or IT knowledge, most likely from a recent degree or equivalent recognised certification such as CCNA\/JNCIA<br \/>\n\u2022 You will ideally be familiar with Checkpoint, Juniper or Cisco firewalls<br \/>\n\u2022 You will preferably have experience with F5 load balancers, Aruba wireless and\/or Websense or Bluecoat proxy<br \/>\n\u2022 Prior experience working within a 1st line support role would be extremely beneficial<\/p>\n<p><strong>By joining one of the world\u2019s leading cybersecurity companies, you will be offered the following<\/strong>:<br \/>\n\u2022 An opportunity to join a fun, social and lively SOC team that are growing rapidly!<br \/>\n\u2022 Company pension scheme<br \/>\n\u2022 Competitive salary and generous holiday allowance<br \/>\n\u2022 Private medical healthcare with BUPA<br \/>\n\u2022 Life insurance<br \/>\n\u2022 Childcare vouchers<br \/>\n\u2022 A free annual eye test<br \/>\n\u2022 Company events several times per year<\/p>\n<p><strong>How to apply:<\/strong> Please send your CV and Cover Letter to <a href=\"mailto:recruitment@secdata.com\">recruitment@secdata.com<\/a> for<br \/>\nimmediate consideration.<\/p>\n<p>NB: No recruitment agencies. Any speculative or unsolicited CV\u2019s shall be taken as a gift and<br \/>\nwe will not be liable for a fee. By applying for a role at SecureData, you agree to adhere to<br \/>\nour privacy notice. Please find more details here: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.secdata.com\/privacy-noticejob- applicants\/\">www.secdata.com\/privacy-noticejob-applicants\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SecureData is a specialist cybersecurity services and solutions company and are currently seeking an ambitious and driven 1st Line Support Engineer to join their team &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/soc-employability\/2018\/06\/07\/1st-line-support-engineer-maidstone\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5829,"featured_media":673,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[184915,184554],"tags":[9658,37339,143073,184942,184943],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/soc-employability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/soc-employability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/soc-employability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/soc-employability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5829"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/soc-employability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=671"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/soc-employability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":677,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/soc-employability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671\/revisions\/677"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/soc-employability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/soc-employability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/soc-employability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/soc-employability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}