Network Security Analyst

Network Security Analyst

Based at customer site – Milton Keynes

Inside IR35

£800-900 per day (via Umbrella)

Contract until Nov 2024

Must have an active SC clearance and be able to achieve DV

Team Overview

As a Network Security Analyst for the Authority, you will be working within an Operational Security Team of 6 members of staff, providing governance and compliance across a government environment.

Must have an active SC clearance and be able to achieve DV

Position Summary

As a Network Security Analyst, you will ensure compliance to best practices in the customers estate. You will do this by a number of methods from assessing and authorising changes, running compliancy scans, triaging published vulnerabilities assessing their impact and advising the customer on their security posture, and identifying and raising risks.

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Key Responsibilities

• Triaging all newly released vulnerabilities and adding them to the vulnerability register
• Management, maintenance of a Networks Portfolio Product Vulnerability Board and presenting this to the customer
• Technical investigations into vulnerabilities
• Review and impact assess changes from a security perspective and sit on a weekly board to advise
• Chair multiple weekly meetings where you will do the following:
• Advise Projects that they are implementing as per CIS and security best practices
• Schedule security audits for your network portfolio and other members of the team
• Act as an SME for the company and the customer regarding security issues and trends
• Security Incident resolution approval and consultation
• Security Contractual Compliance:
• Carry out contractual security compliance reviews on a regular basis
• There will be an element of cross portfolio working, so you must have a very good standard of generic IT knowledge
• Authorise and monitor network access and configuration
• Provide and attend weekly updates for CISM management team

Skills and Qualifications

• Ability to attain DV security clearance is essential
• CCNP level certification
• Experience of Cisco ISE
• Firewalls - Palo Alto experience/Certification (PCNSE), Cisco ASA and Juniper
• Experience working within a high tempo environment
• Science Logic experience
• Large Enterprise network exposure
• Able to work in a large team and be comfortable engaging with senior leadership team members across the account
• Familiarity with Nessus Vulnerability assessment tool
• Willingness to self-development of own knowledge according to market, customer, and CC requirements
• Good written and spoken communicative abilities; presentation and moderation skills; professional and convincing manner of appearance and expression; clear, targeted communication (verbal and written)
• Good decision-making skills. Influence and persuasion skills
• High degree of independence, organisational skills and time management
• Ability to perform very well even under high pressure in a structured manner and to strict deadline; ability to address multiple activities at any time
• Solution-oriented thinking and acting
• Ability to influence with integrity & negotiate sympathetically

Performance Indicators

• Assist in ensuring all security-related remedial actions are carried out in a timely manner
• Provide security advice and guidance on queries relating to Transitions, projects and BAU areas
• Support security incident investigation as required
• Provide regular MI to senior management and customers throughout the regular reporting cycles
• Ability to work towards team and individual targets
• Provide advice and guidance on queries relating to activities to support the security strategy programme
• Collaboration with departmental colleagues to ensure requirements are understood
• Maintain open and constructive working relationships with high degree of commitment and commitment resilience
• Build and maintain effective working relationships with internal and external stakeholders
• Collaboration with subject matter experts to validate technical and operational control requirements