Cyber Security Operations Engineer

ZipRecruiter; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a prestigious international organization as a Cyber Security Operations Engineer, where you will engage in security investigations, threat mitigation, and team collaboration. This hybrid role offers exceptional career development, a challenging work environment, and a comprehensive benefits package. Ideal candidates will have experience in security operations and effective communication skills.

Benefits

Enviable benefits package

Ongoing career development

Hybrid working

Qualifications

• Previous experience as a Cyber Security Operations Engineer.
• Hands-on experience in incident response roles.
• Expertise in operational Security Operations Centre.

Responsibilities

• Conduct security investigations and manage incident responses.
• Monitor security systems and implement security tools.
• Proactively identify and mitigate threats.

Skills

Incident Response

Threat Hunting

Security Monitoring

Communication

System Administration

Collaboration

Tools

CrowdStrike

PowerShell

Bash

Python

Windows Event Forwarding

syslog

Job description

Job Description

Prestigious opportunity for a Cyber Security Operations Engineer for an International market leading organisation. Following a period of significant growth and success, we are expanding the team in our Global Security Operations Centre and welcome your application! This is a hybrid role in a pioneering technology team, offering ongoing career development and training.

As one of our Cyber Security Operations Engineers, you will be responsible for:-

• Conducting security investigations and leading security incident responses, driving incident resolution
• Monitoring security systems and infrastructure to support the best performance and reliability
• Implementing and managing security tools and processes, to detect and mitigate threats
• Maintaining robust security feeds and ensuring data integrity
• Proactively looking for threats, working with level one analysts, affected teams and security vendors
• Identifying and implementing security process automation, continuously improving processes and tools
• Providing expertise to partnered security teams in the mitigation of threats
• Communicate complex technical information clearly and concisely to both technical and non-technical audiences
• Collaborating with partner security teams to bolster support of the organisation's security infrastructure

If you possess a combination of some of the following skills, then LETS TALK!

• Expertise in an operational Security Operations Centre
• Previous experience as a Cyber Security Operations Engineer
• Hands-on experience in an incident response role utilising CrowdStrike
• Experience developing and delivering on incident and program status
• Familiar with threat hunting, leveraging intelligence data to proactively find and iteratively investigate suspicious behaviour across networks and systems
• Experience analysing network and host-based security events
• System Administration with either Microsoft Windows or Linux
• Understanding CLI shells such as PowerShell or Bash
• Security Log infrastructure configuration such as Windows Event Forwarding (WEF) or syslog
• Knowledge of an interpreted such as Python, Perl, or Ruby
• Operating systems, file systems, and memory structures on Windows, MacOS and Linux
• Knowledge of networking technologies, specifically TCP/IP and the related protocols
• Understanding of networks, operating systems, and architecture and how they affect the security of an organisation

In return, you will be rewarded with an enviable benefits package, hybrid working and ongoing career development.

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