Cyber Security Analyst, Shift Work

NatWest Group; Gogar; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial institution is seeking a Cyber Security Analyst in Edinburgh. The role involves assessing and responding to security threats, collaborating with stakeholders, and conducting root cause analysis. Candidates should have security incident management experience and knowledge of networking protocols. Flexibility to work in a rotating shift pattern, including weekends and bank holidays, is required.

Qualifications

• Security incident and event management experience.
• Good knowledge of transmission control protocol and internet protocol.
• Experience in network intrusion detection analysis.

Responsibilities

• Assess, triage, and respond proactively to security threats and incidents.
• Collaborate with colleagues and stakeholders on incident response.
• Conduct root cause analysis on security incidents.

Skills

Security incident and event management

Network intrusion detection analysis

Knowledge of networking protocols

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 in the Edinburgh office

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 security incident and event management experience, along with good knowledge of transmission control protocol and internet protocol.

You’ll also demonstrate:

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