Information Security Analyst

Aegon N.V.; City of Edinburgh; Hybrid; GBP 30,000 - 32,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial services company is seeking an Information Security Analyst for a hybrid role in Edinburgh. The role involves supporting incident response and enhancing the organization's security posture. Candidates should have 1-3 years of relevant experience, familiarity with security tools, and strong analytical skills. Competitive salary from £30,400 to £32,000, along with generous benefits including a non-contributory pension and private medical cover.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Non-contributory pension

Discretionary bonus

34 days leave per year

Private medical cover

Life assurance

Critical illness cover

Qualifications

• Experience in an information security or IT operations role.
• Familiarity with security tools such as SIEM, DLP, and endpoint protection.
• Understanding of core security principles and incident response processes.

Responsibilities

• Support incident response and data protection.
• Provide internal consultancy to improve the organisation's security posture.

Skills

1-3 years of experience in information security or IT operations

Familiarity with security tools such as SIEM, DLP

Understanding of core security principles

Strong analytical and problem-solving skills

Excellent written and verbal communication

Job description

Overview

Information Security Analyst — Permanent — Location: Edinburgh. Hybrid model requires in-office collaboration a minimum of 40% of time.

Expected starting salary: £30,400 - £32,000. Closing date: 6 October 2025.

Enterprise Technology is Aegon's global IT partner that provides infrastructure services, information security and global/corporate application support for Aegon's businesses around the world. From 6 locations in the US, the Netherlands, UK, and Hungary, we support 20+ country units and 24,000+ employees. Our support includes centralized global IT services such as programming, database management, project management, agile/dev/ops, and more. We continue to maximize value from a clear digital and data technology platform strategy that extends our ecosystem, digitization, enhances customer experience, and improves operational efficiency. All these teams work closely together to provide innovative and digital solutions as well as critical technology support to enable Aegon’s businesses to be innovative, digital, competitive, efficient, and effective, delivering the best solutions and customer experience for customers and shareholders.

The Job

This role supports key functions including incident response, data protection, access control, penetration testing coordination, and internal consultancy. The analyst will work closely with senior team members to maintain and improve the organisation's security posture.

Responsibilities

• Support incident response, data protection, access control, and penetration testing coordination.
• Provide internal consultancy to improve the organisation's security posture.

We'd love to hear from you if you have

• 1-3 years of experience in an information security or IT operations role.
• Familiarity with security tools such as SIEM, DLP, and endpoint protection.
• Understanding of core security principles and incident response processes.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication.

It'd also be great - but not essential - if you've got

• Relevant certifications (e.g., CompTIA Security+, SSCP, GIAC).
• Experience with identity and access management tools and processes.
• Awareness of regulatory frameworks (e.g., GDPR, SOx, PCI-DSS, FSA regulations).
• Eagerness to learn and grow within a collaborative team environment.

What's in it for you?

• A competitive starting salary from £30,400 - £32,000, depending on experience.
• A non-contributory pension between 8%–12%. We’re enhancing our pension from November 2025. If you contribute 7% of your salary, we will top it up by a further 13%.
• A discretionary bonus, depending on personal and company performance.
• 34 days leave per year (including bank holidays, pro-rated for part-time).

We also offer private medical cover, life assurance, critical illness cover, enhanced parental leave and a variety of lifestyle benefits, including retail discount vouchers, cycle2work scheme, subsidised restaurant and online GP appointments.

Don’t miss out on this opportunity to grow with us. Apply today!

The legal bits

We’ll need you to confirm you have the right to work in the UK. If we offer you a job and you accept, there are some checks we need to complete before you can start with us. These will include a credit and criminal record check, as well as providing satisfactory references.

Cifas Short Fair Processing Notice (applies to UK based candidates only).

The personal information we have collected from you will be shared with Cifas who will use it to prevent fraud, other unlawful or dishonest conduct, malpractice, and other seriously improper conduct. If any of these are detected, you could be refused certain services or employment. Your personal information will also be used to verify your identity. Further details of how your information will be used by us and Cifas, and your data protection rights, can be found by visiting www.cifas.org.uk/fpn.

Equal Opportunity Employer

We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of their age, disability, race, religion/belief, gender, sexual orientation or gender identity.