Network Engineer

Job description

Job Title: Forensic Network Engineer
Reports to: Cyber Forensic Network Manager
Corporate Grade: AVP
Primary Location/s: Exchange Towers, London E14
Department/Function: O&T / GIS / CSOC / CFI

About Barclays

Barclays is an international financial services provider engaged in personal banking, credit cards, corporate and investment banking and wealth management with an extensive presence in Europe, the Americas, Africa and Asia. Barclays' purpose is to help people achieve their ambitions – in the right way.

With over 300 years of history and expertise in banking, Barclays operates in over 50 countries and employs approximately 140,000 people. Barclays moves, lends, invests and protects money for customers and clients worldwide.
At Barclays, we recruit based on merit and are committed to promoting diversity throughout our organisation.

Department overview

Global Information Security is a global team with more than 700 colleagues across Europe, Asia, Africa and the Americas. We support the business in ensuring the confidentially, integrity and availability of Barclays' information assets, and in implementing world-class security solutions to meet business needs. Cybercrime and cyber-attacks against institutions are growing considerably in quality, quantity, and complexity, targeting both private industry and national critical infrastructure. Successful attacks against organizations can result in significant disruptions to business transactions, operations, and client activities, as well as regulatory scrutiny, reputational harm and brand tarnishment.
As a global bank, Barclays is at the crosshair of cyber criminals. As an organization that process financial transactions, stores and transmits sensitive client information, and participates in the global financial marketplace, Barclays is an attractive target to organized criminals, hackers and hacktivists. Barclays can expect to see a continued increase in the number and sophistication of cyber-attacks against it, its partners, and its employees and clients. This is made more of a critical issue given the bank's strategy of providing more and more of its services and products online and via mobile channels.
The developments described above require a different and much more proactive and intelligence led cyber defense, compared to the normal reactive and incident based defences built over the last 20 years. The modern Cyber Security Group uses, among other things, useful intelligence from multiple sources to attempt to understand the motives and tactics of attackers before an attack happens, as well as react to attacks as they occur. An effective Cyber Security Group will be able to effectively plan, predict, detect, prevent, react, respond and recover from multiple attacks in short time frames.

Overall purpose of role:

Within the GIS CSOC, the Cyber Forensic Investigations (CFI) team is responsible for investigating, identifying, collecting, processing, analysing and reporting on electronic information in a forensically sound manner. This capability is both proactive and reactive to internal and external demands, satisfying potential criminal, civil, regulatory, as well as employee-related cases and matters.

The overall purpose of this role is to work within a team of dedicated engineers to build, maintain and support the forensic network infrastructure which enables the forensic department to acquire, preserve and investigate electronic data to the highest quality standards required to enable the data to be admissible in a court of law.

Key Accountabilities and Skills required:

Support a network of systems to support electronic preservation and analysis of data, using specialist tools.
· Will be required to globally build, manage and secure advanced electronic evidence processing platforms as they are rolled out globally.
· Will build and maintain a network of technology relationships to ensure that all systems built for CFI, conform to Barclay's standards and utilise standard operating procedures wherever possible.
· Must ensure that all fault reporting to vendors follows agreed SLA's demanding responses from vendor as appropriate to severity level.
· Will be required to guarantee high level of integrity, checks and balances throughout all systems.
· Will be required to ensure that evidence is maintained, in a manner to ensure its integrity, admissibility and surpasses any challenges to it: ACPO Guidelines, US Federal Rules of Evidence, generally accepted forensic principles, etc.
· Will conduct network scouting & mapping in support of e-discovery & digital investigations.
· Will also be required to conduct network scouting & mapping assignments in support of the design and build out of key strategic, global CFI satellite offices
· Is responsible for maintaining the integrity of network security protocols for the CFI eDiscovery review platforms.
· Is responsible for maintaining the integrity of network security protocols for all network tools used by CFI investigators globally. This will include windows patches and software updates from 3 rd party vendors.
On-going management and support of cyber-forensics systems and tools
· Will provide global delivery of operational support procedures to ensure specialist equipment and storage facilities are available and to required standards and within agreed internal SLA's.
· Support the global delivery of build capability to ensure rapid distribution of servers/appliances and other systems, to the CFI team and legal teams in support of ongoing regulatory, litigious and internal investigations.
· Will have ongoing responsibilities to maintain response levels to security monitoring of Global CFI systems.
· Delivery of backup services to secure external sites, as required on a case-by-case basis. This will include overseas environments.
· Support the Clearwell (Symantec eDiscovery) infrastructure and will provide on-going support and maintenance to ensure 24/7 availability.
· Is required to support the global rollout of the remote network agent acquisition and CIRT platforms throughout Barclays and to maintain updates and upgrade s where and when required.
· To manage the deployment of CFI data storage and processing platforms to new global geographical locations.
· Must manage and support all network projects in adherence of all Barclays and CFI policies and procedures.
· Deliver and maintain all internet facing image detection environments. Also completing upgrades of vendor software and database updates.
Support all internal external communications links into and out of the Barclays CFI strategic locations and environments

Reporting and assurance of security of cyber-forensics systems
· The will be a requirement to produce and present the findings of regular security reports to attest to the integrity of platforms, systems and the data stored on them.
· Production of ad hoc audit and integrity reports as and when required by legal counsel for individual cases that are subject to judicial or regulatory review / challenge
· Provision of support to case leads if required to testify in court as to the integrity of systems or data held on them.
Stakeholder management and leadership
· Management and delivery of operational support procedures to ensure specialist equipment and storage facilities are available to required SLAs
· Delivery of build capability to ensure rapid delivery of PCs and other systems to the cyber-forensics team and legal teams to assist in cases
· Ongoing oversight and response to security monitoring of the cyber-forensics systems.
· Delivery of backup services to secure external site as required on a case-by-case basis
Decision making and problem solving
· Production of regular security reports to attest to the integrity of systems and data held on them
· Production of ad hoc attestation reports when required by legal counsel for individual cases as to the integrity of systems and data held on them
· Provision of support to case leads if required to testify in court as to the integrity of systems or data held on them
· Assist case leads in identifying and preserving data from across Barclays global network
· Assist in the development of effective tools and working practices for Barclays infrastructure teams to enable the efficient collection of electronic data
Risk and Control

All Barclays colleagues have to ensure that all activities and duties are carried out in full compliance with regulatory requirements, Enterprise Wide Risk Management Framework and internal Barclays Policies and Policy Standards.

Your Skills and Qualifications will include


Essential

· Enterprise Class Networks
· Safely & Securely Manage Enterprise Class Volumes of Storage
· Rebuilding RAID Arrays
· Firewall management
· Business Continuity
· Switches (Configuration, Security & Management)
· Routers (Configuration, Security & Management)
· VPNs (Configuration, Security & Management)
· Webservers, DNS, WINS (Configuration, Security & Management)
· Legacy Systems to Modern Architecture (Configuration, Security & Management)
· Windows server/domain management
· Understanding of the type of networks attacks that networks can come under
· Protocols
· Cabling / patching
· Understanding of Various Network Topologies
· Citrix Systems (Configuration, Security & Management)
· Understanding of IPS/IDS technologies
· Computer room build and management
· Management of internet lines
· Understanding of network management tools e.g. Solarwinds, PRTG
Preferred
· SourceFire IPS
· F5 BIG-IP
· Fortinet Fortigate
· Cisco device configuration & administration
The Benefits: Our customers deserve the best. The same goes for our employees. That's why at Barclays you'll receive a range of benefits that include a competitive salary and all the tools, technology and support you need to succeed.

Our Culture: Everything we do is shaped by the five values of Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence and Stewardship. The values inform the foundations of our relationships with customers and clients, but they also shape how we measure and reward the performance of our employees. Simply put, success is not just about what you achieve, but about how you achieve it.
Dynamic working gives everyone at Barclays the opportunity to integrate professional and personal lives, if you have a need for flexibility then please discuss this with the hiring manager.
Barclays is an equal opportunity employer and are opposed to discrimination on any grounds. For more detailed information, please visit our dedicated Diversity and Inclusion site here .

Barclays Values & Diversity

Our common purpose is to help people achieve their ambitions – in the right way. We'll measure and reward our people, not just on commercial results, but on how they live our Values of Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence and Stewardship and bring them to life every day. To find out more about working at Barclays and the development opportunities we offer please visit our website http://www.barclays.com/

We are an equal opportunity employer and we are opposed to discrimination on any grounds.