Cyber à Grande-Bretagne

Provide specialist cyber security expertise as a key member of the network project team, ensuring the secure design and delivery of the University’s digital network services and defending them against cyber threats. The Analyst will be responsible for implementing and managing robust network security controls, with a focus on Cisco technologies, to protect against evolving threats.

• As part of a team of analysts, be responsible for the overall day-to-day technical and operational management of cyber and information security within the University.
• Operate within a hybrid Security Operations Centre (SOC) model, lead the investigation and resolution of cyber security incidents, and coordinate with the University’s third-party SOC provider to ensure effective threat detection, incident response, and continuous monitoring across the University.
• Conduct proactive threat hunting activities to detect advanced threats and anomalous behaviour within the University's network, and provide solutions to support incident response, vulnerability management, and strategic security decisions.
• Collaborate with third-party providers to scope, coordinate, and review network security assessments, and ensure that findings and recommendations are effectively prioritised, communicated, documented and implemented to improve the University’s security posture.
• Support the network vulnerability management process by identifying, assessing, and prioritising security vulnerabilities, and working with relevant teams and third parties to ensure timely remediation through patching, configuration changes, or other appropriate fixes.
• Design, implement, and support technical security controls to defend University network systems against security threats and to address specific security challenges across the University.
• Assess security infrastructure, network and systems design to evaluate and identify security risks, threats and vulnerabilities of networks, systems, applications, and new technology initiatives and ensure overall system / network security.
• Conduct assessments of existing and new software deployments, whilst continuously looking at ways to mature our processes and improve the services.
• Present Security solutions for approval via internal processes such as the Technical Architecture Board (TAG) and Change Advisory Board (CAB).

• Experience of cyber and network security tooling within a large organisation.
• Able to work effectively as part of a matrix/project team whilst also being able to prioritise and manage own workload.
• The ability to present your ideas and your specialist area, to a wide and potentially non-technical audience.
• Able to plan and manage new projects or significant new activities, ensuring plans complement broader organisational strategy.
• Able to work with Senior level stakeholders, advising, influencing, and gaining support for security initiatives.

The University of Southampton promotes a healthy work life balance with generous holiday allowance (30+ days), defined benefit pension, flexi-time and flexible working, generous parental leave and childcare provision. For more information on our benefits, please visit our human resources pages.

Interviews are scheduled to commence between the 22nd - 23rd of October.

We are committed to equality, diversity and inclusion and welcome applicants who support our mission of inclusivity.

Apply by 11.59 pm GMT on the closing date. For assistance contact Recruitment on +44(0)2380 592750 or recruitment@soton.ac.uk quoting the job number.