Senior Cyber Security Analyst

TurleyWay: Senior Technology Recruitment; London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial services firm is seeking a proactive cyber security professional for a senior role in their dedicated team. You will handle complex incidents, develop new capabilities, and use your expertise in threat intelligence and incident response strategies. The position offers competitive salary and benefits in a fast-paced environment, requiring onsite presence four days a week in London.

Benefits

Bonus Scheme

Excellent Career Progression

Qualifications

• Experience in Security Operations or similar role required.
• Knowledge of security infrastructure tools like Firewalls and SIEM.
• Ability to mentor and share knowledge within a team.

Responsibilities

• Act as an escalation point for cyber incidents.
• Perform threat hunting and develop response playbooks.
• Maintain competency in event analysis and conduct investigations.

Skills

Threat Intelligence

Incident Response

Threat Hunting

Log Analysis

Tools

Splunk

Firewalls

Intrusion Detection Systems

Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR)

Job description

Employer TurleyWay: Senior Technology Recruitment Location London, United Kingdom Salary Competitive Salary Closing date 30 Jun 2025

View more categories View less categories Sector Business Services ,Financial Services Responsibilities Analyst Position/Level Senior Management Contract Type Permanent

Are you a proactive cyber security professional looking for an exciting new challenge? Would you like to join a global financial services business as part of a dedicated cyber security team? Can you demonstrate broad experience across the cyber security landscape from security operations and infrastructure security to threat intelligence and insider threats? Do you have a passion for cyber security combined with an investigative mindset and the ability to work in a fast-paced ever-changing environment?

This high-profile role represents an excellent opportunity for an ambitious cyber security candidate to progress their career within a highly respected financial services firm. As the successful applicant you will work as part of global team of security engineers and analysts working closely with business and technology teams to qualify and respond to threats to understand and refine processes and controls. Your responsibilities will include being an escalation point and expert on cyber incidents of various types, threat hunting for TTPs prioritized by internal and external threat intelligence, owning team process improvements as well as mentorship, and staying on top of industry technology and cyber threat advancements. Some examples of your specific duties will be to maintain a core competency in event analysis and serve as an escalation point for noteworthy investigations, deeper investigations, and those that require critical attention. Build out new capabilities aligned with the attack surface. Opportunities include detection enhancements, improved or new standard operating procedures, develop dashboards, direct alerting, risk-based alerting, reports, and other objects within Splunk. Leveraging threat intelligence and personal experience to perform active threat hunting and work alongside the Attack Surface Management Team to build response playbooks on emerging vulnerabilities

To be considered you will be able to demonstrate experience working in a Security Operations, CSIRT, or similar role. Experience building out insider risk, threat intelligence, breach attack simulation, a strong understanding of the fundamentals such as packet, file, and log analysis. You will broad knowledge across security infrastructure tools such as Firewalls, intrusion prevention/detection systems, Proxy Servers, email controls, anonymizing technology, data loss prevention, Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR), and SIEM (Splunk). You will be comfortable acting as mentor, sharing knowledge and working as part of team. Most importantly you will have a passion for cyber security, a thirst for knowledge and desire to seek out opportunities for development and learning.

In return we offer competitive basic salary, benefits including bonus scheme, excellent career progression and development in fast paced professional environment.The role requires the candidate to be onsite four days per week in central London. Please submit your CV ASAP for review and consideration.

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