Incident Response Analyst (Cyber Security)

Careerwise; City Of London; Híbrido; GBP 72 000 - 94 000; Tempo integral

Resumo da oferta

Careerwise is seeking an experienced Incident Response Analyst (Cyber Security) in London. The role is hybrid with 2 days in the office and a 12-month contract. You will lead incident detection, triage, and response across SIEM/EDR, cloud, and identity security environments.

The ideal candidate has 8+ years in incident response, strong cyber security expertise, and exposure to MITRE ATT&CK, with the ability to coordinate cross-functional teams and implement playbooks and improvements.

Qualificações

• 8+ years in Incident Response.
• Strong cyber security experience required.
• Proficient in SIEM/EDR, forensics, and IR lifecycle.

Responsabilidades

• Monitor and analyse security alerts across SIEM, EDR/XDR, identity, email, cloud, and network security platforms.
• Validate incidents, assess severity and business impact, investigate threats and coordinate containment, eradication, and recovery.
• Develop and maintain incident response playbooks, runbooks, and post-incident reviews.

Conhecimentos

Cyber security

SOC operations

SIEM/EDR

Forensics

Network analysis

Cloud security

Identity & Access Management

Email security

Vulnerability management

Formação académica

Bachelor's degree in Cyber Security or Computer Science

GCIH/GCFA/GCIA/SC-200/CySA+/CISSP certifications

Ferramentas

Microsoft Sentinel

Defender XDR

KQL

Python

PowerShell

Wireshark

Velociraptor

Volatility

EnCase

Descrição da oferta de emprego

Role – Incident Response Analyst (Cyber Security)

Rate – upto GBP450/Day Outside IR35

12 Months contract

London Based (Hybrid – 2 Days in office)

Responsibilities:

Should have atleast 8+ years of experience as an Incident Response Analyst.

Must have strong experience as Cyber Security.

• Incident Detection, Triage & Response: Monitor and analyse security alerts across SIEM, EDR/XDR, identity, email, cloud, and network security platforms. Validate incidents, assess severity and business impact, investigate threats such as phishing, malware, account compromise, and unauthorised access, and coordinate containment, eradication, and recovery activities in line with established SLAs.
• Digital Forensics & Threat Investigation: Conduct forensic investigations across Windows/Linux endpoints, Servers, network traffic, authentication logs, email, and cloud environments. Collect and preserve digital evidence, maintain chain of custody, identify Indicators of Compromise (IoCs), establish root cause, and map attacker tactics and techniques to the MITRE ATT&CK framework.
• Threat Hunting & Detection Engineering: Perform proactive, hypothesis–driven threat hunting using threat intelligence, security telemetry, and attacker behavioural patterns. Develop, tune, and validate detection rules, SIEM queries, correlation logic, and custom indicators to improve threat detection, reduce false positives, and address security monitoring gaps.
• Incident Coordination & Stakeholder Management: Collaborate with infrastructure, application, cloud, identity, risk, legal, compliance, business, and third–party teams to manage incidents throughout the response life cycle. Maintain accurate incident timelines, evidence, action logs, escalation records, and investigation reports while providing timely technical updates and management communications.
• Incident Response Governance & Continuous Improvement: Develop and maintain incident response playbooks, standard operating procedures, escalation matrices, and communication templates. Conduct root–cause analysis and post–incident reviews, track remediation actions, support cyber incident simulations, and report incident metrics, trends, risks, and control effectiveness to management.
• Technical Skills & Experience: Demonstrate hands–on experience in Cyber Security Incident Response, SOC operations, SIEM and EDR/XDR platforms, Windows/Linux forensics, network analysis, cloud security, identity and access management, email security, and vulnerability management. Working knowledge of NIST incident response guidance, MITRE ATT&CK, Cyber Kill Chain, and evidence–handling procedures is essential. Experience with Microsoft Sentinel, Defender XDR, KQL, Python, PowerShell, threat intelligence, and forensic tools such as Wireshark, Velociraptor, Volatility, or EnCase is desirable.
• Qualifications & Professional Competencies: Hold a degree in Cyber Security, Computer Science, or a related discipline, or possess equivalent practical experience. Relevant certifications such as GCIH, GCFA, GCIA, SC–200, CySA+, or CISSP are advantageous. Prior experience in banking, financial services, or other regulated environments is preferred, along with strong analytical skills, sound judgement under pressure, effective stakeholder communication, and an understanding of regulatory, confidentiality, and data privacy requirements within the EMEA environment.