Cyber Security Analyst

NHS Jobs; Hull and East Yorkshire; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

NHS Jobs is seeking a Cyber Security Analyst to support the Head of Cyber Security and Compliance in securing services from design through implementation.

You will help shape the security roadmap, provide expert guidance across IT projects, and manage defense tools and vulnerability management to sustain secure operations.

Qualifications

• Experience in cyber security operations and governance.
• Strong understanding of security design principles and risk management.
• Ability to interpret security requirements across IT projects.

Responsibilities

• Assist in developing and evolving the security roadmap and risk management.
• Ensure secure design and architecture through expert guidance on IT projects.
• Assist in defining and deploying control baselines, templates, and standards.
• Manage security operations tools (Defender, SIEM, vulnerability management) and ensure timely alerts.
• Assist in incident response planning and resolving high-severity alerts within 72 hours.
• Lead triage, coordinate incident responses, and oversee post-incident reviews.
• Maintain hardening guides and architecture diagrams; lead cross-team security efforts.

Skills

Cyber security

Incident response

Risk management

Security tooling

Disaster recovery

Tools

Defender

SIEM

Vulnerability management

Job description

The Cyber Security Analyst will support the Head of Cyber Security and Compliance to ensure that services are secure in their design and implementation and that risks to the security are appropriately managed. The roles key responsibilities are: Assist in developing and evolving the security roadmap, including tooling optimisation and risk management. Ensure secure design & architecture are implemented through the provision of expert guidance across IT projects and infrastructure. Assist in defining and deploying control baselines, templates, and standards within the business. Manage and monitor security operations tools such as Defender, SIEM products and vulnerability management systems ensuring systems are appropriately configured and alerts are dealt with in a timely manner. Assisting in evaluation, resolution and reporting of any High Severity CareCERT alerts within the 72 hours required Assisting in developing incident response plans. Lead triage, coordinate incident responses, and oversee post-incident reviews. Maintain hardening guides, architecture diagrams, and lead working groups. Cross-team and cross-organisational alignment: Foster collaboration and consistency across estate wide cybersecurity efforts. The role acts as a further escalation point within the business for technical and/or operational issues related to cyber security and general infrastructure queries. N3i Cyber Security Analyst| Page 1 This role is both technical and operational and will involve monitoring and maintaining identified cyber systems and processes to ensure they remain operational and secure including but not limited to data centre, site servers and networks acting as a point of escalation for other teams on all things cyber security related. The role will be required to attend these sites are required to resolve issues and/or meet with stakeholders. You will assist in the development of disaster recovery plans and procedures with other parts of the business and ensuring these are fit for purpose, kept up to date and regularly tested. The role requires you to keep abreast of technological advancements and emerging trends in hardware, software, and systems management to inform decision-making about cyber security. Together with the cyber security and compliance and infrastructure teams, you will help to deliver a 1st, 2nd and 3rd line support facility for CHCP, N3i and our customers and be responsible for keeping customers, staff and other colleagues fully informed of the progress of calls raised with the IT Service Desk, maintaining clear, high quality records on actions undertaken supporting resolving IT incidents.

£45,000.00 to £50,000.00 (Depending on Experience)