Summary: The role of Windows Security and Automation Engineer involves a 10-month contract focused on hardening Windows OS golden images using GPOs from CIS and setting up Chef cookbooks. The engineer will also address misconfigurations in newly built assets while collaborating with internal cloud operations and development teams. A working knowledge of WIZ outputs is considered advantageous.

Key Responsibilities:

• Harden golden images for Windows OS (2019, 2022, 2025) using GPOs from CIS.
• Set up Chef cookbooks for automation.
• Advise and address misconfigurations from newly built assets.
• Collaborate with internal cloud ops, cloud devops teams, and service managers.

Key Skills:

• Experience with Packer, Jenkins, Terraform, and Chef.
• Knowledge of Windows Group Policy Objects (GPO) for Windows hosts (2019, 2022, 2025).
• Familiarity with Vagrant and AWS.
• Strong knowledge of Level 1 CIS benchmarks.
• Working knowledge of WIZ outputs (advantageous).

Salary (Rate): undetermined

City: undetermined

Country: UK

Working Arrangements: remote

IR35 Status: outside IR35

Seniority Level: undetermined

Industry: IT