Cyber Security Analyst

Together; Cheadle; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial services provider based in Cheadle is hiring a Cyber Security Analyst to enhance their security posture using advanced technologies. You will play a crucial role by responding to security alerts, performing threat hunting, and maintaining security dashboards. Candidates should have a strong background in cloud technologies and a passion for cybersecurity. This role offers competitive benefits including a discretionary bonus and health insurance.

Benefits

Discretionary annual bonus

Matched pension contribution

Health cash plan

Free access to company holiday homes

Local gym access

Qualifications

• Understanding of adversarial tactics and techniques.
• Experience with packet capture analysis and malware analysis.
• Ability to prioritize security events and incidents.

Responsibilities

• Act as first responder to security alerts.
• Develop, tune and refine SIEM alerts.
• Perform root cause analysis of security incidents.
• Identify and track software vulnerabilities.
• Collaborate with other teams on security issues.

Skills

Knowledge of Cloud-based technologies

Threat hunting

Intrusion detection and incident response

Analytical skills

Excellent communication skills

Tools

Dark Trace

Splunk

Defender

SIEM

EDR

Job description

Company Description

• Cyber Security Analyst role working with latest Cloud Tech.
• Free access to company holiday homes
• Buy & sell holidays
• Discretionary annual bonus plus an additional Shared Reward Bonus
• Matched pension contribution
• Health cash plan plus Private medical insurance
• Life assurance and Critical illness cover
• Travel season ticket loans and Ride to work scheme
• Free local gym access
• Local bar / restaurant discounts
• Together is based in Cheadle (South Manchester)

We're Together. For over 50 years, we've helped thousands of people, businesses and professionals unlock their property ambitions with our common-sense approach to mortgages and secured loans.

We take the time to understand our customers and our door is always open, so we can often help when other lenders can't or won't. Based in Cheadle, Cheshire, our 900 colleagues help our customers throughout the UK, backed by the power of a £7.9 billion loan book.

Job Description

As a Cyber Security Analyst within our highly capable Cyber Team, you will be working with the latest Tech (Dark Trace, Defender Expandig, Splunk etc) to monitor, validate and investigate potential email related security issues. This is a great role for someone who wants a career as we expand and we encourage you to apply if you have a detailed understanding of our tech and evolving threat trends and the technical ability to detect, analyse and respond to threats to our organization.

Key Responsibilities

• Act as first responder to security alerts.
• Perform regular threat hunting across the organization.
• Continually develop, tune and refine SIEM alerts and user, endpoint and network behavioural models to improve threat detection.
• Create and maintain security dashboards, reports and metrics.
• Perform root cause analysis of security incidents and participate in post-incident reviews to provide practical recommendations for improving the organization's threat detection and incident response capabilities and overall security posture.
• Perform malware analysis and digital forensics where appropriate.
• Identify, assess and track infrastructure and software vulnerabilities and elevate to the appropriate teams for remediation.
• Identify opportunities for process automation and standardise threat detection and remediation procedures to facilitate SOAR implementation.
• Provide recommendations to the cyber security engineers for security control improvements.
• Develop scripts or tools to improve common activity efficiency.
• Ensure skills and knowledge are maintained through attending conferences, training courses, certification, ingesting security research and threat reports and practising in lab environments.
• Share knowledge with and cross-train other members of the cyber security team.

Qualifications

• Knowledge of latest tech including Cloud based Tech including Dark Trace, Defender Expandig, Splunk etc
• Regulated industry background would be advantageous
• Thorough understanding of adversarial tactics, techniques and procedures.
• The ability to contextualise, categorise and prioritise security events, incidents and alerts.
• Experience of threat hunting, intrusion detection, incident response, packet capture analysis and malware analysis.
• Knowledge of infrastructure, cloud, virtualisation and network concepts and technologies, particularly in a Microsoft-centric environment.
• Strong attention to detail with an analytical mindset in order to spot and investigate anomalous behaviour.
• Experience with security tool sets (SIEM, EDR, NDR etc.)
• Demonstrable passion and enthusiasm for security, including the ability to keep current with the latest threats, technologies and trends.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to communicate technical security issues to both non-security and non-technical stakeholders.
• The ability to work closely and collaboratively with Cyber Security, IT and other teams as well as independently.

Additional Information

If you feel you have some of the skills mentioned above, but not all, please do still apply and we would be happy to have a further discussion with you in regards to your suitability for the role.

Together embraces diversity and inclusion, and are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. Not only do we welcome difference - we celebrate it, support it and really value our colleagues for who they are. We are committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives and skills.

If you feel you'd benefit from any support or reasonable adjustments during any stage of the recruitment process, please don't hesitate to let us know when completing your application. This information will be picked up by our team, so we can try and put steps in place to help you be at your best through this process.

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Please note that all successful applicants will undergo relevant employment reference, financial and criminal record checks.

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