Cyber Security Engineer

Salary Competitive

We want to recruit a Graduate to work in collaboration with Queen's, initially for 24 months, to develop intelligent statistical methods to develop techniques and algorithms which can detect enterprise security threats and exposures by analysis of network traffic patterns


Belfast based, Ampliphae Ltd is an innovative software start-up that is revolutionising how communications networks are configured and operated. Cloud Computing is bringing unprecedented flexibility and efficiency to the IT infrastructure of companies of all sizes, and Ampliphaeis ensuring that the enterprise network can support business-critical Cloud and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) applications. 

Working with the world's largest service providers and equipment vendors, Ampliphae was founded with a vision to fundamentally change network operations.

About KTP

This position forms part of the Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP) funded by Innovate UK. It's essential you understand how KTP works with business and the University (in this case Queen's University Belfast), and the vital role you will play if you successfully secure a KTP Associate position.

If you have questions about this or other KTP vacancies contact: T: 028 90973970 Email: ktp@qub.ac.uk

More about the position

Qualifications we require:

Currently, you hold or are about to obtain in July 2018, at least a 2.1 Honours degree in Computer Science, or a closely related discipline 

Essential skills we require as a minimum:

- 3 months' relevant work experience. 

- Basic knowledge of computer information security. 

It's desirable that the successful candidate;

- Currently holds, or be about to obtain in 2018 a related higher degree. 

- 1 years' relevant experience

- Completion of an undergraduate model in computer information security. 

Perks and benefits

This job comes with several perks and benefits

Free coffee / tea
Free coffee / tea

Get your caffeine fix to get you started and keep you going.

Pension plan
Pension plan

We take care of you, even when you are old and wrinkly.

Near public transit
Near public transit

Easy access and treehugger friendly workplace.

Working at
Ampliphae

Providing organisations with insight into their SaaS /cloud platforms usage. The availability and ease of adoption of online applications creates a huge risk for organisations; data security, compliance and unexpected costs are just the tip of the iceberg. Ampliphae provides the IT Management teams in large organisations with an easy-to-deploy, sophisticated and affordable cloud discovery and management toolkit. Ampliphae products allow easy monitoring of cloud applications usage to minimise risks, maximise business benefit and ensure compliance.  A key element of the solution is Ampliphae's comprehensive cloud applications database, customers are provided with the details of each of the services being used, allowing them to understand and assess the implications of using those cloud services as part of the corporate IT platform set. Ampliphae also provides support and consultancy to customers that need to develop policies associated with the use of cloud applications. With Ampliphae's toolset being a key element of the IT Manager's armoury in relation to identification and mitigation of the risks associated with using cloud based applications for storage and retrieval of sensitive information for example, policies and procedures can be established and a means of fast and efficient auditing of compliance to policies provided.

Read more about Ampliphae

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