Senior Security Threat Hunter

Aviva; Bristol; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Senior Security Threat Hunter to enhance their Cyber Incident Team. This pivotal role involves leading threat hunts, managing incident responses, and collaborating with various stakeholders to safeguard customer interests. You'll utilize advanced security tools and your expertise to mitigate risks while supporting the wider business with your insights. If you're passionate about cybersecurity and eager to make a significant impact, this opportunity offers a dynamic work environment with a commitment to your professional growth and well-being.

Benefits

Bonus opportunity - 10% of annual salary

Generous pension scheme

29 days holiday plus bank holidays

Up to 40% discount on products

Free Aviva shares through Matching Share Plan

Supportive policies including parental leave

Flexible benefits including cycle to work

Paid volunteering days

Wellbeing support and tools

Qualifications

• Experience in triaging incidents and leading incident response.
• Proven ability to conduct threat hunts and create custom detections.

Responsibilities

• Drive threat hunts to detect malicious behaviors across infrastructures.
• Lead incident response activities and engage with security teams.

Skills

Incident Response Lifecycle Management

Threat Hunting

SIEM Platforms

EDR Tools

Malware/File Analysis

Data Manipulation

Job description

Senior Security Threat Hunter - Salary £60,000 - £70,000 DOE.

A fantastic opportunity has arisen with the Cyber Incident Team for a Senior Security Threat Hunter to join the team. If you feel you have the experience and skills required then we would love to hear from you.

A bit about the job:

• Drive the development of threat hunts to detect and respond to malicious behaviours and anomalous activity across a diverse set of infrastructures/platforms utilising leading security platforms and tools utilising your own research and input from other teams within Aviva.
• Lead incident response activities escalated to Tier 3 and engage with security teams and business stakeholders to mitigate risk and ensure that Aviva's customers are appropriately protected, operating as part of a 24/7 out of hours on call rota.
• Liaising and working with third party suppliers to make sure the service they offer meets and maintains our high quality and standards, offering your guidance and understand the impact to Aviva if a cyber incident occurs within their estates.
• Supporting the wider business with your experience and expertise along with representing the threat hunting team on internal projects when required.
• Creation and maintenance of detailed process documentation and work instructions along with providing support and guidance for other members of the team.

Aviva operates a "smart working" policy meaning that we spend approximately half of our time working in an office this role is based in Bristol.

Skills and experience we're looking for:

• Demonstrable experience in triaging incidents and leading through incident response lifecycle.
• Have led and conducted threat hunts.
• Experience of creating custom detections or correlations rules in SIEM platforms and EDR tools.
• Ability to query logs and manipulate data in a variety of formats across different platforms.
• Experience of malware/file analysis.

What you'll get for this role:

Our purpose - with you today, for a better tomorrow - is a promise we make to our colleagues too. And one of the ways we live up to that promise is by investing in you. We have so much to offer when it comes to being an Aviva colleague.

• Salary between £60,000-£70,000 (depending on location, skills, experience, and qualifications)
• Bonus opportunity - 10% of annual salary Actual amount depends on your performance and Aviva's.
• Generous pension scheme - Aviva will contribute up to 14%, depending on what you put in.
• 29 days holiday plus bank holidays, and you can choose to buy or sell up to 5 days
• Make your money go further - Up to 40% discount on Aviva products, and other retailer discounts
• Up to £1,200 of free Aviva shares per year through our Matching Share Plan and share in the success of Aviva with our Save As You Earn scheme
• Brilliantly supportive policies including parental and carer's leave
• Flexible benefits to suit you, including sustainability options such as cycle to work
• Make a difference, be part of our Aviva Communities and use your 3 paid volunteering days to help others
• We take your wellbeing seriously with lots of support and tools

Take a look to learn more. Put a salary into this calculator to see what your total Aviva Reward could be.

Aviva is for everyone: We're inclusive and welcome everyone - we want applications from all backgrounds and experiences. Excited but not sure you tick every box? Even if you don't, we would still encourage you to apply. We also consider all forms of flexible working, including part time and job shares.

We flex locations, hours and working patterns to suit our customers, business, and you. Most of our people are smart working - spending around 50% of their time in our offices every week - combining the benefits of flexibility, with time together with colleagues.

To find out more about working at Aviva take a look here.

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