Senior CIRT Analyst

WeAreTechWomen; City Of London; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A technology-focused organization in London seeks a Cyber Incident Response Analyst to enhance its security posture. The ideal candidate will possess strong analytical skills, experience with SIEM tools, and a passion for cybersecurity. Responsibilities include responding to security incidents, developing incident response strategies, and collaborating with cross-functional teams. This role offers competitive benefits in a dynamic work environment.

Benefits

Health and wellness benefits

Flexible downtime

Continuous learning opportunities

Qualifications

• Working knowledge of common cyber attacks and ability to articulate TTPs.
• Experience handling security events in critical environments.
• Hands-on with cloud/SaaS logs analysis and security investigations.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate and triage response to cybersecurity events.
• Develop and maintain incident response playbooks.
• Work closely with SOC to investigate incidents.

Skills

Knowledge of common cyber attacks and tools

Experience with SIEM (Splunk preferred)

Excellent communication skills

Third language and/or geopolitical awareness

Education

Relevant certifications (e.g., GCTI, GCFA/GCFR)

3+ years of information security experience

Tools

Splunk

SIEM

Incident Response playbooks

Job description

About the Role:

Grade Level (for internal use): 11

Cyber Incident Response Analyst

The Role

As a Cyber Incident Response Analyst, you will be part of the Cyber Defence team that develops and oversees the company's security program, ensuring S&P Global is protected from existing and emerging threats. In close partnership with Security Operations and Threat Intelligence, you will detect, analyze, and decisively respond to security incidents, enrich investigations with timely intelligence, and help drive proactive defences. While based in the UK, you will support response and intelligence needs globally.

Candidates should have a genuine interest in cyber security and a strong grasp of attacker tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs). This role requires a detail-oriented, critical thinker who understands how adversaries exploit systems, networks, and people—and how to respond. Experience applying threat intelligence to investigations and to improve detections is highly desirable.

Primary Responsibilities

• Coordinate and triage response to cybersecurity events and conduct forensic analysis across endpoints, networks, cloud, and SaaS.
• Integrate threat intelligence into investigations (e.g., enrich IOCs, map activity to MITRE ATT&CK, identify likely threat actors/TTPs, and assess potential impact).
• Understand the threat landscape through collaboration with industry peers, FS-ISAC, trust groups, and commercial/open-source intelligence, translating insights into actionable recommendations.
• Develop, maintain, and operationalize Incident Response playbooks and SOPs; include PIRs (Priority Intelligence Requirements), collection plans, and feedback loops to refine detections.
• Work closely with the SOC to investigate incidents and deliver containment, remediation, and root cause analysis; produce high-quality intel-informed incident reports.
• Create and tune detections (e.g., SIEM/SOAR, EDR) using intelligence signals (TTPs, behaviors, YARA/Sigma where applicable).
• Produce and present consumable intelligence outputs (e.g., flash alerts, threat overviews, executive briefs) tailored to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Contribute to vulnerability/threat surfacing (e.g., emerging CVEs, exploit trends) and advise on risk-based prioritization.
• Deliver actionable incident and hunting metrics to management; assess detection coverage and recommend improvements.
• Follow the end-to-end incident response lifecycle and support post-incident lessons learned with intelligence-driven enhancements.
• Build an understanding of key S&P technology, systems, and business practices to contextualize threats and drive pragmatic defenses.
• Participate in information-sharing activities (e.g., FS-ISAC submissions) in line with TLP and legal/compliance requirements.

Required Qualifications

• Working knowledge of common cyber attacks, tools, and attacker tradecraft; ability to map activity to MITRE ATT&CK and articulate likely TTPs.
• Demonstrated experience handling security events in critical environments and applying intelligence to accelerate triage and response.
• Experience analyzing system, application, and cloud/SaaS logs to investigate security and operational issues; comfort enriching with IOCs and behaviours.
• Hands-on experience with a SIEM (Splunk preferred) for investigations, alert creation, reporting, and threat hunting.
• Ability to produce clear, actionable intel and incident reports, including executive-ready summaries and visuals.
• Familiarity with threat intel workflows: collection planning, source evaluation, indicator lifecycle, PIRs, TLP, and feedback loops to detections.
• Experience with one or more TIPs or intel data sources (e.g., MISP, OpenCTI, Recorded Future) and STIX/TAXII concepts.
• 3+ years of information security experience with a focus on incident response, threat hunting, or threat intelligence.
• Excellent communication skills for varied business and technical audiences; strong presentation skills.
• Comfortable working in a fast-paced environment; passion for cyber security.
• Advanced knowledge of network protocols (TCP/IP, HTTP) and operating systems.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in the financial services industry.
• Familiarity with threat hunting techniques (hypothesis-driven, ATT&CK-aligned, behavior-based).
• Windows and Linux administration tools and concepts.
• Understanding of threat actors and the cybercrime ecosystem, including initial access vectors, monetization paths, and supply-chain/SaaS attack patterns.
• Exposure to malware/TTP analysis at a functional level (family identification, persistence/discovery behaviors) and creation of detections (e.g., Sigma/YARA) is a plus.
• Experience producing finished intelligence products (tactical through executive) and briefing senior stakeholders.
• Relevant certifications (e.g., GCTI, GCFA/GCFR, GCIH, FOR578) or equivalent experience.
• Familiarity with information-sharing standards and practices (FS-ISAC, TLP) and legal/compliance considerations.
• Knowledge of cloud provider threat models and telemetry (AWS, Azure, GCP, M365/SaaS).
• Second language and/or geopolitical awareness for actor context is a plus.

Compensation & Benefits

This role is eligible to receive additional S&P Global benefits. For more information on the benefits we provide to our employees, visit https://www.spgbenefitessentials.com/newhires.

About S&P Global

At S&P Global, we don’t give you intelligence—we give you essential intelligence. The essential intelligence you need to make decisions with conviction. We’re the world’s foremost provider of credit ratings, benchmarks and analytics in the global capital and commodity markets. Our divisions include S&P Global Ratings, S&P Global Market Intelligence, S&P Dow Jones Indices and S&P Global Platts. For more information, visit www.spglobal.com.

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What’s In It For You?

Our Purpose: Progress is not a self-starter. It requires a catalyst to be set in motion. Information, imagination, people, technology—the right combination can unlock possibility and change the world. Our world is in transition and getting more complex by the day. We push past expected observations and seek out new levels of understanding so that we can help companies, governments and individuals make an impact on tomorrow. At S&P Global we transform data into Essential Intelligence, pinpointing risks and opening possibilities. We Accelerate Progress.

Our People: We’re more than 35,000 strong worldwide—driven by curiosity and a shared belief that Essential Intelligence can help build a more prosperous future for us all. We’re committed to a more equitable future and to helping our customers find new, sustainable ways of doing business. We’re constantly seeking new solutions that have progress in mind. Join us and help create the critical insights that truly make a difference.

Our Values: Integrity, Discovery, Partnership. We focus on Powering Global Markets. We start with a foundation of integrity, bring a spirit of discovery to our work, and collaborate with each other and our customers to achieve shared goals.

Benefits: We take care of you, so you can take care of business. Our benefits include health and wellness, flexible downtime, continuous learning, investing in your future, family-friendly perks, and more. For country-specific information, visit the benefits page: https://spgbenefits.com/benefit-summaries.

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S&P Global is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race/ethnicity, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, marital status, military veteran status, unemployment status, or any other status protected by law. Only electronic job submissions will be considered for employment.

Location: London, United Kingdom