Remote 2nd Line Cyber Security Analyst - Incident Response

Nigel Wright Group; North East; Remote; GBP 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

Nigel Wright Group is seeking an experienced 2nd line Cyber Security Analyst to join a proactive security team. The role is home-based with occasional UK travel and a willingness to travel for team meet-ups; office optional.

You will secure networks, applications and data, monitor security logs and respond to incidents using Sentinel and Defender technologies. The ideal candidate has strong knowledge of security controls across on-prem and cloud environments, excellent communication skills, and

Qualifications

• Experience securing complex on-prem and cloud environments.
• Proven incident response and remediation skills.
• Familiarity with Sentinel, Defender products and automation tooling.

Responsibilities

• Monitor, triage and investigate alerts and incidents within Sentinel.
• Coordinate with 3rd party SOC for incident scope and actions.
• Assist incident response and remediation efforts.
• Support ITSM ticket management and BAU checks.
• Analyze security logs and trends.
• Triage vulnerabilities and coordinate mitigations with IT teams.
• Support threat hunting activities.
• Review security control effectiveness.
• Participate in on-call rota.

Skills

Security monitoring

Incident response

Cloud security

IT security controls

Python scripting

Stakeholder communication

On-call support

Tools

Microsoft Defender

Azure Sentinel

Defender for Endpoint

ITSM tools

Job description

Nigel Wright Group is seeking an experienced 2nd line Cyber Security Analyst to join a proactive security team. The role is home-based with occasional UK travel and a willingness to travel for team meet-ups; office optional.

You will secure networks, applications and data, monitor security logs and respond to incidents using Sentinel and Defender technologies. The ideal candidate has strong knowledge of security controls across on-prem and cloud environments, excellent communication skills, and