Software developer DevOps

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Job description

A career within Cybersecurity and Privacy services, will provide you with the opportunity to help our clients implement an effective cybersecurity programme that protects against threats, propels transformation, and drives growth. As companies pivot toward a digital business model, exponentially more data is generated and shared among organisations, partners and customers. We play an integral role in helping our clients ensure they are protected by developing transformation strategies focused on security, efficiently integrate and manage new or existing technology systems to deliver continuous operational improvements and increase their cybersecurity investment, and detect, respond, and remediate threats.

Background

PwC is a market leading provider of cyber security services to major organisations worldwide. Our global team of over 4,850 cybersecurity professionals includes specialised consultants, former law enforcement officials, forensic investigators, intelligence analysts, data scientists, legal professionals and industry leaders in cyber security and privacy. We are rated as a leader by multiple industry analysts for Global, EMEA and Asia-Pacific Cybersecurity Consulting services.

Our Managed Cyber Defence team helps global clients monitor & respond to cyber security threats. The bespoke technology platforms and automation underpinning this service are important to our success as we continue to scale, ensuring that analysts have robust tools to collect and analyse data, and our clients have reliable access to our intelligence products.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain a range of automated tools, including interfacing with third party APIs and systems, ensuring that our threat hunters have a robust & streamlined capability to investigate security issues.

• Liaise with internal security teams during the development and launch of new technologies, ensuring we follow best practices and firmwide procedures.

• Contribute to internal documentation for both technical (devops) and non-technical (analyst, customer) audiences.

Experience

We're looking for a passionate and motivated contract developer to join our team and build the tools we use to streamline and automate threat detection, analysis, and reporting. Our current technology platform is based on Python and runs in Google's Cloud Platform.

You will ideally have knowledge and experience of the following:

• Liaising with users to collect requirements, prioritise tasks and plan development sprints - balancing development of new capability with maintenance of existing systems.

• Building, testing, deploying, and maintaining automation tools using modern development practices (primarily using Python).

• Building and maintaining REST APIs and web applications using Python (Flask / FastAPI / AJAX).

• Using PaaS / IaaS components from cloud providers, such as Google Cloud Platform (GCP), including K8s / AppEngine.

• Integrating disparate systems and data sources into analytical platforms, or orchestrating actions via APIs across multiple systems.

• Using data storage solutions including MySQL / Elasticsearch / Datastore and analysis techniques including Cloud Dataflow and BigQuery (or equivalent).

• Documenting throughout the lifecycle of a project, both for end users and other developers.

• Debugging problems, including in existing systems, to diagnose and fix issues that arise.

Desirable skills for this role include:

• Deploying code using CI/CD, including the designing of pipelines and use of containers and appropriate security hardening for internet facing services.

• Familiarity with threat hunting and endpoint detection & response tools, such as Palo Alto's Cortex XDR or Microsoft Defender for Endpoint.

• Familiarity with automation platforms such as Palo Alto's Cortex XSOAR or Microsoft Sentinel.

Risk
We're a leading provider of trust in the digital world - in the eyes of our people, our clients and our stakeholders. Today's business environment is different. More complex. More connected. Companies not only face new and unknown risks, but also new and untapped opportunities. Our team is at the forefront of this change, join us to be a part of transforming how risk is perceived and capitalised on.

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