Senior Security Analyst

Senior Security Analyst – South West - £40 - £75k
 
Join one of the fastest-growing, award-winning, and Crest accredited boutique consultancies in the UK as a Senior Security Analyst. As the Senior Security Analyst, you’ll join a team of dedicated security professionals, utilising some of the best in class security solutions on the market to help defend a number of different clients from Charities to FTSE 250 companies.
What you will be doing as a Senior Security Analyst:

• The Senior Security Analyst will utilise their deep technical and analytical skills to assess and if needed remediate any incidents across the entirety of differing client networks.
• Assist the SOC Manager with shift creations and the daily management of Junior Analysts within the team.  
• Get the chance to mentor fellow Security Analysts whilst developing your current Blue team skillset.
• Add, update, and, when needed, remove IP addresses and domains.
• Develop/maintain operating procedures and use cases for the handling of different security occurrences as you help the Security Operations Centre (SOC) to remain on the cutting edge.
• Monitor and collate data (triage) coming in from endpoints across their large IT estate using a variety of SIEM tools such as LogRhythm, Splunk, Alien Vault, etc.
• Put your OSINT knowledge to use when using/developing house built SIEM tools and improving further the Security Operations centre (SOC) capabilities.
• Prepare comprehensive intelligence reports including your findings, the status/progress of the investigation, and the risk factors involved.  

 
Requirements for the Senior Security Analyst role:

• Experience working within Security Operations (SOC)
• Experience with a multitude of SIEM tools e.g. LogRhythm, Alien Vault, Splunk, Q-radar
• Have SC clearance
• Ability to deal with 3rd parties/Clients and relay technical information to non-technical people
• Excellent communication & networking skills
• Experience performing triage and remediating security incidents (within a cloud-based environment - preferred but not essential)

 
Desirables for the Senior Security Analyst role (apply regardless):

• Have previous experience working within a government or defence organisations
• Have previously working within a consultancy / MSP / MSSP / MDR
• Have relevant GIAC or SANS certifications

If you or someone you know would be interested in this opportunity please contact me via email at m.mansouri@ltharper.com