IT Security Engineering Lead

**About IAG Tech**

IAG Tech is a community of IT and digital professionals from across the International Airlines Group (IAG). We drive the technology behind some of the biggest and most successful brands in global aviation, including British Airways, Aer Lingus, and Iberia.

Brought together in 2019, we are a unique community with a shared vision to deliver Technology Excellence and be recognised as industry leaders in the use of technology.

Our mission is to delight customers, enable employees, accelerate business performance, protect our business and increase shareholder value, through the innovative and agile use of technology and data.

We use product-centric delivery teams using agile methods to implement new capabilities at pace and maximise business outcomes. With a relentless focus on improving system performance and stability, we continually strive to find new and better ways to innovate and support the Group.

**Our Values**

At IAG Tech we share common values to help us create the right culture to underpin our thriving community:
Innovation | we value identifying new ways of using technology to solve business challenges

Empowerment | we value giving people the freedom to operate, that they take accountability, and collaborate with colleagues

Professionalism | we value having and developing the right knowledge and competency to be able to do our jobs to the best of our ability

Transparency | we value honesty and integrity and always share the reality in a manner the business understands

Agility | we value responsiveness, speed and flexibility in everything we do

We celebrate when we see great examples of our values in action and challenge each other when we see these values being ignored.

**The Role**

Network Security Lead:

- Identify security gaps, driving initiatives to remediation
- Coordinate with IAG Tech teams, business units and vendor support teams to deliver a network and cloud security service
- Lead activity to enhance IAG’s overall security posture around network security controls
- Lead all activities connected to the management and maintenance of endpoints protected by cloud-based solutions, as the Subject Matter Expert
- Interface with Data Centre exit program team to coordinate migration activities and be involved in service design
- Protect information systems against unauthorised access
- Analyse threats, make detailed and informed continuous improvement proposals, implementing mitigation strategies on behalf of IAG’s operating companies
- Troubleshoot network and cloud security incidents and lead investigation
- Collaborate with the wider Security Engineering team, contributing to services delivered

**Accountabilities**
- Defines operational security strategic requirements, for embedding new IT security processes across the Group.
- Monitors the information security status across the Group and its operating companies.
- Manages the operational security requirements across different technologies and operating companies. Anticipates, investigates and resolves security operational issues, developing remedial solutions that ensure the integrity and availability of systems.
- Performs an assurance and governance operational service level through regular and deep local security audits, ensuring adherence to the Security Engineering strategy. Provides thorough testing and event schedules ensuring a robust and fit for purpose service.
- Provides a defined 24x7 first response process, escalating incidents as required.
- Provides management reporting through appropriate metrics on known incidents.
- Contributes to the management of operational security and system access management initiatives, promoting security best practice across the Group.
- Works collaboratively, through a trusted business partnering consultative approach, proactively leveraging key relationships with Group IT, and key business stakeholders across the Group. Interfaces with strategic third-party service providers, regulatory, compliance and audit bodies.

**About you**

**Qualifications**:

- Educated to degree level or equivalent experience.

**Skills**:

- Robust problem and incident management to deliver integrity and availability of systems.
- Knowledge of IT Security operational capability and industry standard solutions.
- Senior stakeholder management, with a proven ability of influencing and persuading internally and externally.
- Ability to recognise operational priorities and guide others towards the accomplishment of strategic business goals and objectives.
- Innovation - transforming industry trends into practical, cost effective, secure, scalable and supportable IT security solutions.
- Fluent English and Spanish.

Experience
- Proven track record of successfully managing complex operational security assurance and compliance services.
- Deep understanding of the IT Security Engineering environment, with proven ability to develop and improve services.
- Knowledge of complex enterprise/clou