Cybersecurity Lead Analyst

ALTEN Polska; Kraków; Hybrid; PLN 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medicover medical care

Medicover dental care

Medicover Benefits platform

Medicover Sport card

Referral Program

Layette for a newborn employee’s child

Group life insurance

Pension scheme

Job summary

ALTEN Polska in Kraków is seeking a proactive Cybersecurity Hunter to respond to alerts, detect threats, and coordinate with the Incident Management and Response Team. You will help eradicate incidents, perform root-cause analyses, and contribute to lessons learned and process improvements.

The role requires deep knowledge of security frameworks, strong analytical skills, and leadership to mentor colleagues while continuously improving detections and playbooks.

Qualifications

• Excellent investigative skills and curiosity; think like the enemy.
• Strong problem solving, troubleshooting and decision-making abilities.
• Developed external peer network for sharing intelligence.
• Understanding of business needs and commitment to delivering high-quality, prompt service.
• Understanding organizational mission and highest ethical standards.
• Experience defining operational procedures to support monitoring and detection.
• Knowledge of cybersecurity frameworks (OWASP, ISO2700x, NIST) and network protocols (TCP/UDP/DNS/DHCP/IPSEC/HTTP).
• Technical experience in analyzing threat data and identifying attacker tactics.

Responsibilities

• Responding to alerts to detect harmful behaviors and incidents and coordinate with the Cybersecurity Incident Management and Response Team.
• Supporting cybersecurity incidents through eradication and Post Incident Review with root cause analysis.
• Identifying, developing and implementing new detections (Use cases) and mitigations (Playbooks).
• Reviewing and approving new Use Cases and Playbooks.
• Continuously reviewing the effectiveness of analysis playbooks, processes, and tooling.
• Applying structured analytical methodologies to maximize threat intelligence growth and service efficacy.
• Supporting triage of potentially malicious events to determine severity.
• Provide expert-level advice and technical leadership to the team.
• Train, develop, mentor and inspire cybersecurity colleagues.
• Collaborate with wider Cybersecurity and IT teams to ensure capabilities remain fit for purpose.
• Identify processes that can be automated and orchestrated for efficiency.

Skills

Investigative skills

Curiosity

Problem solving

Decision making

Threat intelligence

Team leadership

Self-motivation

Tools

SIEM tools

EnCase

FTK

Sleuthkit

Kali Linux

IDA Pro

Job description

What you’ll do:

• Responding to alerts from across the entire global technology and information estate to quickly detect harmful behaviors and events, containing, mitigating and remediating minor incidents and in coordination with the Cybersecurity Incident Management and Response Team, effectively containing, mitigating and remediating more serious events.
• Supporting cyber security incidents through to eradication and feed in to the Post Incident Review process that delivers detailed analysis on the root cause of incidents investigated and produces findings and recommendations that support control adjustments to better protect the bank.
• Identifying, developing and implementing new detections (Use cases) and mitigations (Playbooks) across the security platforms.
• Reviewing and approving new Use Cases and Playbooks created by Cybersecurity colleagues.
• Continuously reviewing the effectiveness of analysis playbooks, processes, and tooling.
• Applying structured analytical methodologies to maximise threat intelligence growth and service efficacy.
• Supporting the triage of potentially malicious events to determine severity and criticality of the event.
• Provide expert-level advice and technical leadership to the team, driving the continued evolution of hunting, monitoring, detection, analysis and response capabilities and processes.
• Train, develop, mentor and inspire cybersecurity colleagues in area(s) of specialism.
• Collaborate with the wider Cybersecurity (and IT) teams to ensure that the core, underlying technological capabilities that underpin an effective and efficient operational response to current and anticipated threats and trends remain fit for purpose.
• Identify processes that can be automated and orchestrated to ensure maximum efficiency of Global Cybersecurity Operations resources.

What you need to have to succeed in this role:

• Excellent investigative skills, insatiable curiosity and an innate drive to win. Instinctive and creative, with an ability to think like the enemy.
• Strong problem-solving, trouble‑sh‑ooting and decision‑making capabilities, with a proven ability to weigh the relative costs and benefits of potential actions and identify the most appropriate one.
• Developed external peer network for sharing intelligence.
• An understanding of business needs and commitment to delivering high-quality, prompt and efficient service to the business. Self‑motivated.
• An understanding of organisational mission, values and goals and consistent application of this knowledge as well as highest ethical standards and values.
• Experience defining and refining operational procedures, workflows and processes to support the team in consistent, quality execution of monitoring and detection.
• Good understanding and knowledge of common industry cyber security frameworks, standards and methodologies, including; OWASP, ISO2700x series, CIST and NIST standards and network protocols such as TCP, UDP, DNS, DHCP, IPSEC, HTTP.
• Technical expertise in analysing threat event data, evaluating malicious activity, documenting unusual files and data and identifying tactics used by attackers.
• Demonstrated experience in analysis and dissection of advanced attacker tactics and of common log management suites, Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) tools,
• use of “Big Data" and Cloud‑based solution for the collection and real‑time analysis of security information.
• Knowledge of common cybersecurity technologies such as; IDS / IPS / HIPS, Advanced Anti‑malware prevention and analysis, Firewalls, Proxies, MSS, etc. and experience with operating systems and platforms e.g. Windows, Linux, UNIX, Oracle, Citrix, GSX Server, iOS, OSX, etc.
• Functional knowledge and technical experience of 3rd party cloud computing platforms such as AWS, Azure and Google.
• Basic knowledge of common cybersecurity incident response and forensic investigation tools such as: EnCase, FTK, Sleuthkit, Kali Linux, IDA Pro, etc.

We offer a full‑time employment contract

• Location: Kraków (hybrid, 6 office visits/month).
• Stable and long‑term cooperation
• Well‑defined career path at the European leader in engineering & IT consulting
• Opportunity to relocate and work in different ALTEN Polska branches
• After completion of the project, opportunity to engage in a subsequent one within the company
• Introduction and cooperation with dedicated Competences Manager

Benefits:

• Medicover medical care
• Medicover dental care
• Medicover Benefits platform
• Medicover Sport card
• Referral Program
• Layette for a newborn employee’s child
• Group life insurance
• Pension scheme

We also guarantee:

• Access to professional certifications with our technology partners (e.g. Google, ISTQB)
• Access to relevant industry events
• Access to the Knowledge Sharing Program
• Access to Referral program

We also offer cooperation based on a B2B or Contract of mandate (UZ).

NOTICE: We kindly inform you that we will contact the selected people.