Your new company

Hays Technology is proud to present this exciting new opportunity for an IT Service provider. Not just for in house administration but for exclusive clientele. A British Multinational Company that Provides Computer services to both public and private sector customers.

What you'll need to succeed

24/7 Security Operations Delivery

• This role will support the Security Operations Center (SOC) delivery in security monitoring for cyber threats
• Operation of multiple tool sets delivering security operations to the company
• Triage, investigation and analysis of cyber events present on security monitoring tooling
• Support creation, modification & operation of playbook / runbook tasks to ensure investigation and remediation tasks deliver end to end security operations delivery
• Support the Company's SOC SME's in tuning of use cases and playbooks
• Use vulnerability analysis to complete specific and targeted investigations to support the investigation of cyber event analysis through Security Monitoring & Analytics function

Support the Company's security incident management function in cyber investigation

• Use vulnerability analysis to complete specific and targeted investigations to support incident management function
• Completed daily reviews of all security monitoring & analytics applications as per runbook requirements
• Support onboarding / offboarding assets to the security monitoring applications
• Complete regular health check for assets not reporting to security monitoring applications

Author regular reporting, as per KPI and delivery metric requirements, to senior management 24/7 Security

Operations Support

• Validate scheduled vulnerability scanning has been successful

Support out of hours management of security incident management queue Performance Indicators Ability to work towards team and individual targets

• Awareness for value in the best interests of the company
• Pro-actively identify better ways of doing things to deliver improvement and simplify the way in which activities are undertaken
• Use standard best practice to deliver across the Company group in a consistent, repeatable manor
• Ensuring all security operations actions are carried out in a timely manner
• Provide security advice and guidance on queries relating to delivery and projects across the Company group systems
• Promotes group-wide security thinking and alignment as well as target-group-oriented standards with an appropriate level of security compliance and business needs
• Collaboration with departmental colleagues to ensure requirements are understood
• Collaboration with subject matter experts to validate technical and operational control requirements

Proactively shares information with and seeks advice from other team members and the wider Group to drive improvements. Knowledge, Skills & Experience Education/professional qualification Experience in operating common SOC technologies (MS Sentinel, M365, Vulnerability Analysis etc)

• Understanding of security enforcing functionality and the delivery into a SOC function
• Basic coding and scripting (perl / powershell / python etc)
• Disciplined and analytical approach to problem solving
• Good knowledge of Network Topologies and Protocols e.g., TCP/IP and common security assurance tools
• Good knowledge of Information Assurance and Cyber Security
• Experienced in security incident management investigations
• Ability to identify and drive security service improvement
• Ability to create regular reports at detailing the delivery of services offered
• Ability to review technical or procedural documents
• Ability to interpret technical information and be able to relay this in an understandable manner.

Desirable

• Working towards professional examination such as CISMP, Security+

• Knowledge of ISO standards (ISO 27001)
• Awareness of ITIL practices
• Willingness for self-development of own knowledge according to market requirements
• Knowledge of legislative & regulatory requirements

Personal characteristics and skills Communicates in a clear straightforward way (written and verbally) Good organisational and time management skills

What you'll get in return
Flexible working options available.

What you need to do now
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