Cyber Security Operations Specialist

6 months ago

Salford, United Kingdom Hoist Finance Full time

As we unfortunately cannot provide visa sponsorship at this time, **prospective applicants must already be legally entitled to work full time in the UK to be considered for the role**.

**The Role**:
Cyber attacks have the potential to prevent us from achieving our mission, reaching our financial objectives and meeting our obligations to our customers, our clients and society as a whole.Reporting to the Cyber Security Operations Manager, the Cyber Security Specialist operates at the forefront of our efforts to protect the business, ensuring that our overall Cyber Security Operations program enables us to successfully detect, respond to and recover from cyber attacks.

**Role Responsibilities**:
The Cyber Security Specialist enhances our Security Operations capabilities by undertaking advanced threat hunting activities and incorporating their findings into new detection methods. Using threat intelligence and their own knowledge of attacker TTPs to form hypotheses and inform their activities, they hunt across data from all available sources, including our SIEM and EDR products to either prove or disprove those hypotheses.Working with our threat intelligence partner, the Cyber Security Specialist ensures that threat intelligence informs their threat hunting activities and the detection capabilities of the security function.The Cyber Security Specialist is also responsible for handling security incidents that require deviation from documented remediation methods, or are of a particularly critical nature. They drive efforts to ensure swift and efficient incident resolution and risk mitigation.Alongside these operational responsibilities, they are also expected to mentor Cyber Security Analysts, passing on their expertise and helping them to develop their own careers.

**Key Deliverables and Outcomes**:

- Documented hypothesis-led cyber threat hunts resulting in improved detection capabilities and improved cyber security controls and safeguards
- Critical incident response and management, ensuring appropriate investigation and mitigation activities are taken
- Development of new proactive monitoring use cases and corresponding runbooks for incident detection and mitigation
- Automation of incident management process to ensure swift and efficient incident response and mitigation
- Coordination and documentation of responses to higher-criticality incidents within the security function and in conjunction with relevant business functions

**Key Skills**:

- Detailed understanding of Security Operations methods, tools and technologies

Analytical and problem-solving skills to identify threats, patterns and trends
- Expert knowledge of current cyber threat actor tactics, techniques and procedures (TTPs) as per the MITRE ATT&CK framework as well as a good understanding of red-teaming tools and the artefacts they produce when used
- Being able to realistically hypothesise how a threat actor would go about attacking an organisation
- Curation of cyber threat intelligence and using this to better inform cyber security capabilities
- Operating system, network, software and hardware fundamentals, especially Microsoft products
- High-level system and network administrative knowledge including an overall understanding of how key services like Active Directory are configured
- Confident in presenting technical concepts and findings to audiences of various levels of technical understanding
- Communication and collaboration with internal and provider teams

**Experience Required**:

- 3yr+ experience of having worked in a Security Operations environment: responding to and investigating cyber security incidents
- Demonstrable experience of hypothesis-led cyber threat hunts that have led to improved detection and response capabilities
- Experience of analysing and determining the significance of threat intelligence

**Relevant Qualifications**:
Appropriate cyber security certifications will be beneficial but are certainly not essential

**Location and Working Hours**:
As we unfortunately cannot provide visa sponsorship at this time, **prospective applicants will need to already be legally entitled to work full time in the UK to be considered for the role**.

**Salary and Benefits**:

- Salary up to £65,000 p.a. depending on experience
- Annual bonus scheme
- Car cash allowance
- Pension and life cover
- Private healthcare cover
- Salary sacrifice EV scheme

**Is Hoist Finance your next employer?**

Working with smart, engaged colleagues driven by strong business ethics, you will play an important role at Hoist Finance, and have the opportunity to develop your career as the company continues to grow.

Today Hoist Finance is represented in thirteen European countries, with plans to expand into new countries and new asset classes. Hoist Finance is listed on Nasdaq in the Nordic Mid Cap segment.

Hoist Finance is a leading debt restructuring partner to international banks. Our business also naturally includes debt collection through

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