Senior Cyber Security Analyst

2 weeks ago

London, Greater London, United Kingdom Synapri Full time £90,000 - £120,000 per year

Digital/Non-Digital: digital

Contract Length: 3 months from start date

Location: London 60% per week

IR35: In scope

Job Description

  • The Cyber Defence team delivers cyber threat intelligence, threat detection, incident response and vulnerability management capabilities and is responsible for defending both internal IT infrastructure and citizen-facing services.
  • As a senior security analyst, you'll take a leading role in building and delivering these core capabilities, focusing on incident response.
  • Lead the investigation of security alerts to understand the nature and extent of possible cyber incidents.
  • Lead the forensic analysis of systems, files, network traffic and cloud environments.
  • Lead the technical response to cyber incidents by identifying and implementing (or coordinating the implementation of) containment, eradication and recovery actions support the wider coordination of cyber incidents review previous incidents to identify lessons and actions.
  • Identify and deliver opportunities for continual improvement of the incident response capability.
  • Work closely alongside other Cyber Defence functions, supporting the continual improvement of wider capabilities.
  • Develop and update internal plans, playbooks and knowledge base articles.
  • Act as an escalation point for, and provide coaching and mentoring to, security analysts.
  • Be responsible for leadership and line management of security analysts.
  • Cyber incidents can and do arise on a 24/7 basis. The team operates an out-of-hours on call rota, which you will be expected to join.

We're interested in people who have:

  • Significant experience investigating and responding to cyber incidents
  • Significant experience using security tools (e.g., EDR, SIEM) to support the investigation and response to cyber incidents.
  • Experience managing and coordinating the response to cyber incidents.
  • Experience coaching and mentoring junior staff.
  • An in-depth understanding of the tools, techniques and procedures used by threat actors.
  • Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

It's desirable, but not essential, that you have:

  • Experience with Splunk.
  • Experience working in an Agile environment.
  • Experience with cloud environments such as AWS.

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