Purple Team Consultant

Barclays UK; Knutsford; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking financial institution as a Purple Team Consultant, where you'll play a crucial role in enhancing cyber security measures. In this dynamic position, you'll collaborate with industry experts to monitor and improve security controls, ensuring the bank's defenses are robust against evolving threats. You'll manage security incidents, analyze data for insights, and contribute to a culture of continuous improvement. This role offers a unique opportunity to work within a vast professional network, making a significant impact on the organization's security posture.

Qualifications

• Experience in a Security Operations Center (SOC) with enterprise security tools.
• Strong analytical skills to generate insights from large data sets.

Responsibilities

• Manage security monitoring systems and respond to incidents.
• Identify emerging cyber threats and collaborate on prevention strategies.

Skills

SOC experience

Splunk

MDE

Sentinel

Data analysis

Cloud technologies

Tools

ELK

Job description

Join us as a Purple Team Consultant at Barclays, where you'll support collaborative security assurance testing between defender and adversary to validate cyber security controls, identify weaknesses and gaps, and improve the Bank's defensive posture. As part of our team, you'll benefit from a vast professional network, collaborating with industry leaders and experts.

Key Responsibilities

1. Manage security monitoring systems, including prevention and detection tools, to alert, detect, and block potential cyber security incidents, and respond promptly to restore normal operations.
2. Identify emerging cyber security threats, attack techniques, and technologies to detect/prevent incidents, collaborating with industry networks and conferences.
3. Analyze security information and event management systems to collect, correlate, and analyze security logs, events, and alerts/threats.
4. Triage data loss prevention alerts to prevent sensitive data exfiltration from the bank's network.
5. Manage cyber security incidents, including remediation and closure.

Qualifications and Skills

Experience with:

• Working in a SOC with enterprise security tools like Splunk, MDE, Sentinel.
• Triaging and investigating security incidents.
• Large data analysis and insight generation from disparate data sets.

Valued skills include:

• Knowledge of current security trends and risk areas such as cybercrime, fraud, financial crime.
• Experience with data analysis using ELK.
• Experience with Cloud technologies.

Role Details

This role is based in Knutsford or Glasgow.

Purpose of the Role

Monitor operational controls, implement and manage security controls, and learn from lessons to protect the bank from cyber-attacks and respond to threats.

Accountabilities

1. Manage security monitoring and incident response systems.
2. Identify and collaborate on emerging threats and attack techniques.
3. Analyze security logs and alerts for potential threats.
4. Triages data loss prevention alerts to safeguard sensitive data.
5. Manage cybersecurity incidents from detection to resolution.

Leadership Expectations

For Assistant Vice Presidents, responsibilities include advising, policy development, leading teams, setting objectives, coaching, demonstrating leadership behaviors, and managing risks.

For individual contributors, responsibilities include leading collaborative assignments, guiding team members, and influencing stakeholders.

Additional Expectations

Demonstrate Barclays Values: Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence, Stewardship, and the Barclays Mindset: Empower, Challenge, Drive.