Details:
- Salary: £575 - 600 - Day
- Job Type: Contract
- Job Status: Full-Time
- Salary Per: Day
- Location: South Yorkshire
- Date: 1 day ago
Description:
The Role: Head of Network Observability and Analysis
Location: Sheffield, UK
Position Type: Contract Inside IR35
Remote work option Available: Hybrid – 3 Days Onsite
Job Description:
Key responsibilities:
* Own the definition and delivery of the network observability and analysis approach, including scope, architecture, tooling, and roadmap
* Strong technical understanding of DNS, routing, certificates and exposure data, EDR signals, asset inventory)
* Build and improve the data layer to ingest, normalise, and reconcile telemetry and configuration state into analysable, queryable datasets
* Partner with analytics and data science teams to develop detection and insight use cases on top of the data
* Work in partnership with network engineering to address instrumentation gaps and align with authoritative sources of truth
* Define coverage and data quality metrics so visibility gaps are measurable and trackable
* Report progress, insights, and key risks to senior security and technology stakeholders
Required skills and experience:
* Strong networking knowledge: routing, DNS, perimeter and cloud architectures, large enterprise environments
* Strong data engineering and analysis skills: large scale telemetry, streaming and batch pipelines, SQL and Python, modern storage and query platforms
* Experience building or scaling a capability in a complex organisation
* Comfortable working hands-on (prototype, query, script) while setting direction
* Experience working in regulated or high security environments, able to work with both engineers and senior stakeholders