Cyber Security Analyst

Cyber Security Analyst

Contract

£600 - £650 per day

This contract role will require you to conduct security clearance prior to assignment.

Required qualification:

DDaT - After successful qualification and assessment after a six-month period

This is a technically demanding role that requires regular engagements and meetings (sometimes at short notice) across 'The Client' and partner organisations. In addition, the broad scope of responsibilities and intricacies of some of the working relationships require continuity throughout the role.

Job purpose and key responsibilities:

• Support and defend the Clients IT estate by monitoring and responding to cyber threats that could impact ongoing business activities. You will be part of a small team of Security Operations Centre (SOC) analysts

• Monitoring IT systems and networks for potential breaches, and responding to alerts from information security tools.

• Assessing & responding to events of interests within SOC tooling, engaging with relevant teams (technical and business to understand and remediate.

• Developing and enhancing SOC incident response processes and capabilities (building playbooks and automating activities)

• Working with customers/projects to identify and ingest key log sources to mitigate protective monitoring risks

• Assessing new and existing log sources to produce monitoring/response content to enhance SOC capabilities (or remove events from log collection if volume greater than value)

• Representing SOC interests and supporting wider incident response activities during major incidents

• Incident reporting and stakeholder management.

This role will require working both independently and as part of a small team, with the chance to take on responsibility for liaison with specific projects, working with many teams within the organisation and liaison with partner organisations.

There will be an occasional requirement for UK travel