IT TECHNICIAN - INSIDE IR35 - £300 PER DAY - BPSS CLEARED OR WILLING TO UNDERGO - 5 MONTHS - NEWPORT - ONSITE

Yolk Recruitment are recruiting for an IT Technician to work a 5 month contract in Newport with one of our research and innovation clients.

The successful candidate will contribute to research projects such as the detection of evolving threats using OSINT techniques, and the prioritisation of threat / incident response.

The suitable candidate will also provide support for the R&D IT infrastructure; this includes but is not exclusive to maintaining the test-beds and demonstrators (both software and hardware) and their ongoing operation/availability for events.

This exciting role will be situated inside a highly skilled team, where collaboration across disciplines is essential to achieve the mutual goal of reducing cyber threat success. This will enable the post holder to further develop their own knowledge and skill set across a diverse range of topics.

Responsibilities

• Support the Cyber Innovation and Scouting Team in the success of all planned research projects in 2023. Assist Cybersecurity Researchers in the writing of all internal reports, external research publications and the creation of usable intervention.
• Assist in the creation and debugging of Proof-of-Concept (POC) code (Python)
• Create, maintain and test interconnected virtual computer environments from existing templates, and use as a platform for testing the POC ideas

Skills/Experience

Essential:

• Experience in a relevant discipline including programming and environment configuration.
• Experience in Python scripting.
• Experience in software testing and debugging.
• Knowledge of the processes involved in hosting code in a Git environment
• Excellent planning and organisational skills.
• Excellent communication skills, verbal and written
• Comfortable working under direction and supervision from cyber security researchers, with the ability to follow instructions independently.
• Highly self-motivated, but enjoy working collaboratively.
• Keen to support and work alongside highly specialised cyber security professionals.
• Ability to support the transport and set-up of equipment between sites (transport will be provided).

Desirable:

• Experience in the use of virtual environments to host 'web services' hosted within docker
• Basic experience in how websites and their backend databases work to enhance functionality
• Interest in open source intelligence gathering using Application Programming Interfaces (APIs).