Cyber Security Analyst

NCL are looking for people with enquiring minds who love technology and like solving problems to join our cyber team.

Working from our Digital Operations Centre near Cardiff, you’ll be part of our team helping to deliver managed security services to our clients, leveraging state of the art security platforms and processes, Carrying out a broad range of activities from proactive cyber detection and response services to infrastructure, end user experience and application performance and availability management.

This is an exciting time where you can be part of an energetic growing business and help build our dream, while learning and developing skills in cyber security and associated data networks and information technology.

Skills & Experience

Monitor the security, performance, and availability of client networks.

Perform initial triage/identification of ‘Events of Interest’ from our toolsets.

Ensure that events of interest, exceptions and incidents are responded to in accordance with established work processes, including remedial action/recommendations.

Identify suspicious and / or anomalous activities and taking appropriate action based on documented processes and procedures.

Provide basic event and log analysis to support our operational services

Produce reports (as per templates) & trending analysis as required.

Present & review reports to internal & external key stakeholders.

Contribute to the continuous improvement of NCL’s Cyber Security services, including identifying and implementing efficiency and quality improvements.

Help develop and maintain company IS27001 and Cyber Essentials certifications and associated policies, controls, and operational processes.

Person Specification

Degree preferred or equivalent industry experience.

0-2 years of experience in information/cyber security or related technology areas.

Some Cyber technical background would be useful but not essential.

Some Networking knowledge would be advantageous, but not essential.

Hands on experience with security tooling such as SIEM and EDR solutions, firewalls or IDS would be great but not essential.

Good background knowledge of IT systems and network would be useful.

Knowledgeable in use of one or more of the following is also desirable: RegEx, LUA, SQL (or similar), Python and PowerShell.

Most important is the desire to learn and develop your skills while helping our customers be secure, performant and resilient.  If you have the desire, we can provide the training and education.

Company Benefits & Perks

• Competitive Salary
• Workplace Benefits: Contributory Pension Scheme, Private Medical Insurance, Life Assurance, Critical Illness Cover, Health & Wellbeing
• 25 Days’ Annual Leave (in addition to Bank Holidays)  
• Performance Bonuses (Personal & Company)
• Excellent Career Progression Opportunities