Cyber Incident Responder

3 months ago


London, United Kingdom Financial Conduct Authority Full time

**Salary**: National ranging from £49,700 to £61,400 and London from £53,300 to £68,300

Interested in joining a team that is pivotal in protecting consumers and UK financial markets against cyber-crime?

The team/department

The Cyber and Information Resilience (C&IR) department is responsible for the protection of the FCA’s systems and data, including:
- Developing and maintaining relevant strategy, policy, and standards- Detection of and response to cyber incidents, as well as cyber threat intelligence collection, analysis and exploitation- Delivering cultural and behavioural change across the FCA to create a more secure organisation- Providing expert consultancy on security, privacy and information management for IT projects and the wider FCA, and delivering security, information management and data privacy improvement projects- Assurance that our systems and data are appropriately protected within the FCA’s risk tolerance, through vulnerability management, security framework management and proactive testing

This role sits within the Centre for Cyber Defense & Intelligence (CCDI), part of the C&IR department, which is responsible for Cyber Intelligence, Security Monitoring and Incident Response.

The team maintains comprehensive oversight of security monitoring and provides tactical awareness of the state of controls across the IT estate. This awareness is then used to provide intelligence on the risks to the estate that is used to direct remediation as well as oversee incident response activities. The role therefore requires cyber security and technical experience, allied with the ability to talk to senior management and manage suppliers of security services.

What you will be doing (the role)- Oversight of the monitoring, detection and response regime for cyber security incidents- Management of outsourced Monitoring and Detection providers, acting as escalation point for incident triage- Operational management of our EDR solution for the detection of and response to cyber-attacks- Lead on technical investigations as per business needs- Development and management of Threat Intelligence strategy to appropriately exploit all cyber threat intelligence to focus detection and response efforts- Responsible for development of the guidelines and processes for monitoring, detection and incident response including en suring that the necessary people are trained and prepared to respond when required.- Continued development of our Incident Response framework, including the IR plan and Playbooks- Manages our stakeholders in IT and elsewhere to ensure a holistic approach to security incident management- Participating in the on-call rota for incidents out of hours- Developing and setting metrics to track and trend IR metrics and reporting

What you will get from the role- Stimulating, innovative and cutting-edge work to solve the biggest cyber challenges facing financial regulation, law enforcement and consumer protection- Exposure to new ideas, and opportunities to increase your knowledge and understanding cyber security and incident response in the financial industry setting- Training and development opportunities and exposure to other peer
- and partner-organisations

Our competitive flexible benefits scheme gives you the opportunity to create a personalised benefits package, tailored to suit your lifecycle. You can use this allowance to purchase additional benefits such as dental or cycle to work or you have the option top up your base salary by taking this as cash.

Core benefits that you will receive as standard are:
- 25 days holiday per year plus bank holidays- Private healthcare with Bupa- A non-contributory Pension of at least 8% of basic salary each month (there are several contribution levels that increase depending on your age - up to 12% a month once you reach age 35)- Life assurance of eight times your basic salary- Income protection

We support hybrid working which means you will be able to work from home up to 60% of the time over a month with the remainder of your time in one of our three office locations.

The skills and experience you will have

Minimum- Experience of cyber intelligence analysis- Proven experience of Security Operation Centre (SOC), security operations and incident response processes

Essential- Strong stakeholder management and communication skills- Participated in incident response at strategic, tactical and operational levels- Vendor management experience and overseeing outsourced managed services in an onshore/offshore model- Previous experience of using EDR and SIEM technologies.- Knowledge of security technologies including Firewall, IDS/IPS/HIDS, Anti-Virus, Vulnerability Scanning- Good understanding of Unix and Windows- Knowledge of Big Data principles (and/or security analytics) and approaches in mining security data- Performing threat intelligence analysis at a strategic, tactical and operational level

About the FCA

The FCA regulates the conduct of 50,000 firm



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