Senior Cyber Threat Analyst – AI-Driven Incident Response

eFinancialCareers; Stirling; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

M&G is seeking an Advanced Cyber Threat Analyst to join Security Operations. The role focuses on identifying, investigating and responding to threats, while strengthening defensive capabilities across cloud, endpoint, identity, email and network technologies.

The analyst will work with Threat Intelligence, Security Operations Engineering and external providers to improve resilience and audit readiness. Flexible working arrangements are available.

Qualifications

• Experience in a Security Operations environment.
• Strong incident investigation and response skills.
• Experience analysing activity across endpoint, identity, cloud, email or network security technologies.
• Experience conducting structured, intelligence-led threat hunting.
• Ability to develop, tune or validate security detections and analytical rules.
• Understanding of how threat intelligence and adversary behaviours can inform investigations.

Responsibilities

• Investigate complex security incidents across cloud, endpoint, identity, email and network environments.
• Assess the potential business impact of incidents and recommend proportionate containment, remediation and recovery actions.
• Maintain accurate investigative records, evidence and decision rationales throughout the incident lifecycle.
• Conduct intelligence-led threat hunts based on adversary campaigns, behaviours, tactics, techniques and procedures.
• Identify attack paths, security weaknesses, detection gaps and opportunities to strengthen M&G's security posture.
• Translate investigation, threat hunting and threat intelligence findings into improved detections, controls and response processes.
• Develop, tune and validate analytical rules to ensure they remain effective against evolving threats and reduce unnecessary alert activity.
• Work with Security Operations Engineering to improve telemetry, data quality, detection coverage, tooling integrations and automated workflows.
• Use AI-assisted analysis and advanced analytics to support triage, investigation, threat hunting, detection engineering and reporting.
• Validate AI-generated outputs and retain accountability for analytical conclusions, response decisions and security recommendations.
• Act as a technical escalation point for complex alerts and incidents requiring advanced investigation or specialist expertise.
• Communicate complex threats, risks, decisions and recommendations clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Collaborate with internal teams and external security service providers to coordinate effective investigation and response activity.
• Identify and deliver practical improvements to Security Operations processes, procedures and defensive capabilities.
• Maintain effective controls, documentation and audit evidence, supporting internal and external audit activity where required.

Skills

Security Operations

Incident investigation

Threat hunting

Detections development

Analytical thinking

Auditing & governance

Tools

Microsoft Defender for Endpoint

Microsoft Defender for Identity

Microsoft Defender for Cloud

Microsoft Sentinel

Job description

M&G is seeking an Advanced Cyber Threat Analyst to join Security Operations. The role focuses on identifying, investigating and responding to threats, while strengthening defensive capabilities across cloud, endpoint, identity, email and network technologies.

The analyst will work with Threat Intelligence, Security Operations Engineering and external providers to improve resilience and audit readiness. Flexible working arrangements are available.