Cyber Security Analyst

NatWest Group; City of Edinburgh; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading bank seeks a Cyber Security Analyst to enhance security posture by effectively responding to incidents and supporting a collaborative team environment. This role requires flexibility with a rotating shift pattern and offers the opportunity to work on a variety of security technologies and protocols.

Qualifications

• Experience with various security technologies and mitigation techniques.
• Comprehensive understanding of network security & protocols.

Responsibilities

• Provide end-to-end security response including triage and coordination of incidents.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to ensure incident response activities are completed.
• Carry out root cause analysis on security incidents.

Skills

Cyber security incident response experience

Network intrusion detection analysis

Knowledge of networking protocols

Knowledge of malware analysis techniques

Job description

Join us as a Cyber Security Analyst

• We’ll look to you to provide an end-to-end security response, including triage, response, escalation, and coordination of events and incidents
• You’ll undertake a proactive role to anticipate and identify security events, incidents and trends that could adversely impact the bank, our customers, colleagues or assets
• Joining a collaborative team, you’ll be able to build and maintain a wide network of stakeholders of varying seniority
• We’re here for our customers, whatever the time of day or night, so you’ll need to be flexible in working a rotating shift pattern over 24 hours a day that will cover weekends and bank holidays

What you'll do

As a Cyber Security Analyst, you’ll assess, triage and respond proactively and effectively to security related threats, incidents, requests and events to defend assets, information, and systems from unauthorised access, use, disclosure, disruption, modification, perusal, inspection, recording or destruction.

You’ll be collaborating with internal and external colleagues, specialists and stakeholders to make sure activities relating to incident response, user access, alert monitoring, root cause analysis and scenario planning are completed in line with standard operating procedures and to a high standard.

You’ll also be:

• Carrying out and contributing to root cause analysis on security incidents and events, and conducting training and scenario planning to prepare for and anticipate future events
• Providing assurance of security posture through monitoring security system status
• Monitoring security alerting and analysis service within the function
• Giving advice during an incident response and any subsequent reviews
• Identifying security incidents while helping to handle them in a timely manner, in accordance with security best practice

The skills you'll need

We’re looking for someone with cyber security incident and response experience, along with good knowledge of multiple of security technologies, mitigation techniques and a comprehensive understanding of network security & protocols.

You’ll also demonstrate:

• Network intrusion detection analysis experience
• Knowledge of networking protocols and routing
• Knowledge of malware analysis techniques

Hours

35

Job Posting Closing Date:

11/06/2025 Ways of Working:Office First