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Senior Technology Risk Analyst

Employer
Hays.
Location
United Kingdom, London
Salary
Competitive
Closing date
14 Aug 2022

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Are you looking to step into a technical role where you can hone your skills with a clear career progression path at a major investment management firm? Do you have a deep understanding of frontline security, and have worked in SIEM - but have found your current role to be dull, repetitive, or boring? Then this might be the perfect opportunity to step in as a Cyber Security Technical Consultant - where you will have direct control over EDR, SIEM and SOAR management and will be able to personally influence the security controls for the client - making your work fulfilling and worthwhile!

The successful candidate will be comfortable working at a deep technical level, proactively suggesting and implementing control improvements whilst also being able to prioritise backlog engineering work (mainly sourced from our front-line SOC team).

Key Responsibilities
Ensure controls are kept up to date, analysing and utilising new features as they are released
Working as part of a global engineering team to deliver high priority tickets items
Proactively improve our front-line teams BAU activities
Focus on quick-wins that can immediately help free up analyst time
Create regular workshops to obtain suggestions and demonstrate improvements
Working with other security teams to look at how we can use their data to enhance our own monitoring

Experience and Qualifications
Experience and strong understanding of frontline security operations
Competent in scripting languages required for automation e.g KQL, C, C++, Java, Python, etc
Experience managing an EDR, SIEM or SOAR platform
Some reporting ability, with an understanding on how to tailor reports to show capacity and efficiency improvements
Familiarity with how to build controls in a scalable easily maintainable way
In depth understanding of modern security automation
Understanding of how raw security data can flow between technologies and be manipulated to provide useful security information.
Experience in Azure or AWS cloud environments

Your skills and experience
At least 2 years of experience working in a SOC or Incident Response position.
Knowledge of or experience working with security (SIEM, NetFlow, IDS/IPS, Anti-Virus)
Experience of general IT infrastructure technologies and principles.
Understanding of the underlying protocols including: HTTP, HTTPS, SMTP, SQL.
Understanding of Networking Architecture
Ability to automate tasks using scripting on both Windows and Linux systems.

Nice to have
Experience dealing with security incidents using the NIST framework.

Nice to Have Certifications - Security+, Network+, GCIA, GCIH, GCFA, GMON, GNFA, SSCP, OSCP

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