IT Security Analyst

Principality Building Society; Pwllheli; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

A financial services organization is seeking an IT Security Analyst to join its IT Security team. You will be responsible for safeguarding digital infrastructure, monitoring systems, managing incidents, and conducting vulnerability assessments. Candidates should possess relevant certifications like CISSP and a degree in IT Security. The role offers a supportive environment with flexible benefits, fostering personal and professional development.

Benefits

Flexible/hybrid working policy

Extensive financial and well-being benefits

Award-winning workplace environment

Qualifications

• Strong analytical mindset for assessing security threats.
• Proactive and detail-oriented problem-solving skills.
• Excellent data analysis skills with large datasets.

Responsibilities

• Monitor systems to detect suspicious behaviour.
• Investigate and manage security incidents.
• Deploy and maintain key security platforms.

Skills

SIEM and SOAR platforms

Log analytics

Firewalls (CheckPoint, VMware NSX)

Azure and M365 security configuration

Incident Response

Education

Degree in IT Security, Cyber Security, Digital Forensics

CISSP

COMPTIA Security+

Job description

Overview

Join our growing IT Security team as a Security Analyst on a permanent basis. This is a key role in safeguarding our digital infrastructure and ensuring the security of systems, networks, and data - both in the cloud and on-premises. As an IT Security Analyst, you'll monitor, maintain, and enhance security controls, identify potential risks, and respond to incidents. You'll be hands-on with a variety of tools and technologies and have a real impact on strengthening our overall security posture.

What you'll be doing

• Monitoring systems, networks, and user activity to detect suspicious behaviour or policy violations
• Investigating and managing security incidents, including root cause analysis and reporting
• Deploying, configuring, and maintaining key security platforms used by the analyst team
• Conducting vulnerability assessments and coordinating remediation activities
• Supporting patch management across IT through tooling and reporting
• Performing regular security control reviews and health checks
• Creating and enhancing measures to demonstrate effectiveness and coverage of security controls
• Assisting with internal and external security assessments and audits
• Continuously updating incident response plans, procedures, and playbooks
• Providing 3rd line support to colleagues across IT and the wider business

Technical Skills

• SIEM and SOAR platforms
• Log analytics, rule creation and tuning, threat hunting
• Dashboards and visualisation
• Firewalls (CheckPoint, VMware NSX)
• Windows Server and Desktop
• XDR solutions - tuning and alert investigation
• Azure and M365 security configuration and alert investigation
• Security Frameworks - NIST or similar
• Incident Response - Root cause analysis and remediation coordination

Qualifications

• CISSP
• COMPTIA Security+
• Degree in IT Security, Cyber Security, Digital Forensics, or related discipline
• IT Security Architecture certifications (desirable)

What you'll bring

• Strong analytical mindset with the ability to assess and respond to security threats
• A proactive, curious, and detail-oriented approach to problem-solving
• Excellent data analysis skills utilising large data sets
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, especially when translating technical issues for non-technical audiences
• Passion for cyber security and a desire to stay up to date with the latest threats, tools, and best practices

Belong

There's no place like Principality. Our home is your home. When you join the team, we'll go further to bring you the warmest of welcomes. From a friendly and inviting environment to a flexible benefit package designed around you, there really is no place like Principality. We keep it flexible wherever possible; we encourage you to look after yourself; we do our bit in the communities we serve and support you in doing the same, and we promise to get better together. Some reasons you may want to consider working with us: we have an award-winning flexible/hybrid working policy, we're a 2022 winner of UK Best Large Workplaces for Women, we have a refurbished hi-tech office in the centre of Cardiff designed around colleague feedback, we ranked number 6 for wellbeing in 2022, we have an extensive financial and well-being benefits package designed to put our people first, we have consistent colleague engagement scores of over 85%.