Senior Security Operations Analyst

Interactive Investor; Leeds; Hybride; GBP 49 000 - 59 000; Plein temps

Avantages offerts par ce poste

Group Personal Pension Plan – 8%

Life Assurance

Private Medical Insurance

25 Days Annual Leave

Staff Discounts

Well-being Fund

Retail Discounts

Voluntary Flexible Benefits

Résumé du poste

Interactive Investor seeks a Senior Security Operations Analyst to join the Information Security Team, monitoring, detecting, analyzing and responding to security incidents.

You will oversee SIEM Chronicle, tune rules, investigate alerts and coordinate threat hunting while collaborating across Infrastructure, Networks and SOC partners. Hybrid role with Manchester or Leeds delivery.

Qualifications

• Experience in security incident analysis and response.
• Knowledge of SIEM tools and threat hunting.
• Understanding of cloud and on-prem security controls.

Responsabilités

• Oversee SIEM (Chronicle) rules and tuning with cross-functional teams.
• Investigate security alerts through to resolution.
• Monitor events to identify trends, threats and incidents.
• Support threat intelligence gathering and incident response capabilities.
• Assist in design and documentation of security policies and standards.

Connaissances

Security incident analysis

Threat intelligence

Incident response

Network security

Cloud security fundamentals

Ownership & accountability

Infra & security architecture

Documentation & reporting

Formation

Degree in IT / Cyber security

Outils

Splunk

Chronicle

Sentinel

Description du poste

Title: Senior Security Operations Analyst

Location: Hybrid - Manchester or Leeds 3 days per week, 2 days remote

Salary: From £54,000

Who we are:

interactive investor is an award-winning investment platform that puts its customers in control of their financial future. We’ve been helping investors for nearly 30 years. We’ve seen market highs and lows and been resilient throughout. We’re now the UK’s number one flat-fee investment platform, with assets under administration approaching £75 billion and over 500,000 customers.

For a simple, flat monthly fee we provide a secure home for your pensions, ISAs and investments. We offer a wide choice of over 20,000 UK and international investment options, including shares, funds, trusts and ETFs.

We also bring impartial, expert content from our award-winning financial journalists, highly engaged community of investors, and daily newsletters and insights.

Purpose of the Role

We are recruiting for a Senior Security Operations Analyst to join the Information Security Team to support our continued growth. You will help maintain and protect our key business assets from threats and risks by monitoring, detecting, analysing, and responding to security incidents.

Key Responsibilities

Oversee the day to day running of our SIEM solution (Chronicle) working closely with Infrastructure, Networks, DevOps and our outsourced Security Operations Centre (SOC) team.

Define and facilitate the creation of new rules or fine-tuning existing rules within SIEM.

Investigate SIEM alerts and other security incidents through to completion.

Work within the Information Security Team to provide a dynamic monitoring and incident response capability.

Monitor and analyse security events identifying trends, attacks, and potential threats.

Identify and raise problems. Communicate & raise problems.

Monitoring and gathering Threat intelligence and coordinating subsequent Threat Hunting.

Assess security threats from multiple sources and plan mitigation/remediation.

Gather relevant data, analyse and respond to cyber security incidents.

Research and stay current on the latest trends, best practices, and technology developments for all things cyber.

Assist in the design, management, and documentation of security policies, solutions, standards, and processes.

Designing effective test methods for logical security controls.

Day to day management of Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR).

A good understanding of technical and network security requirements.

Ability to proactively identify control weakness and vulnerabilities.

Knowledge and use of SIEM tooling i.e., Splunk, Chronicle, Sentinel etc and event log data.

Experience in understanding Firewalls and IDS/IPS and Windows Security Event Logs.

Strong verbal and written communication skills with the ability to articulate complex ideas in easy to comprehend business terms.

Comfortable taking ownership for own work, identifying the need for action whilst working effectively within a team.

Ability to quickly understand existing infrastructure, network security principles, data flow and security architectures.

Knowledge of the fundamentals of cloud infrastructure as well as traditional technologies.

Degree in IT / Cyber preferred or industry recognised qualification.

Benefits

• Group Personal Pension Plan – 8% employer contribution and 4% employee contribution
• Life Assurance and Group Income Protection
• Private Medical Insurance – Provided by Bupa
• 25 Days Annual Leave, plus bank holidays
• Staff Discounts on our investment products
• Personal & Well-being Fund – Supporting your physical and mental wellness
• Retail Discounts – Savings at a wide range of high street and online retailers
• Voluntary Flexible Benefits – Tailor your benefits to suit your lifestyle