Purple Team Remediation Coordinator

**Date live**:
28/04/2025
**Business Area**:
Chief Information Security Office
**Area of Expertise**:
Technology
**Contract**:
Permanent
**Reference Code**:
JR-0000035813
Be a part of a place where challenges are measured in billions, qubits and nanoseconds. Build your career in an environment where we’re advancing machine learning, leveraging blockchains, and harnessing FinTech. Working in Barclays technology, you’ll reimagine possibilities: learning and innovating to solve the challenges ahead, delivering for millions of customers.
We are shaping the future of financial technology.
Why not join us and make it happen here?
Join us as a Purple Team Remediation Coordinator at Barclays, where you'll manage, report and co-ordinate the remediation of issues and findings from purple team security assurance testing to drive improvements to the defensive security of the Bank. As part of our team, you’ll also benefit from being part of a vast professional network, collaborating with industry leaders and experts
To be successful as a Purple Team Remediation Coordinator, you should have experience with
**Report Writing**: Ability to document findings, create remediation plans, and prepare reports for different stakeholders.
**Verbal Communication**: Effective communication with team members, management, and external parties.
**Collaboration**: Working collaboratively with other IT professionals and departments.
Some other highly valued skills may include
Knowledge of current trends in security and aligned risk areas such as cybercrime, fraud, financial crime would be useful.
Some experience of working with a SIEM (Enterprise Splunk) and the development of SIEM Use Cases and production of support documentation for Analysts.
DevOps skills such as Python and/or SQL/JQL would be useful.
You may be assessed on the key critical skills relevant for success in role, such as risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen strategic thinking and digital and technology, as well as job-specific technical skills
This role will be based in either our Knutsford or Glasgow office
Purpose of the role
To monitor the performance of operational controls, implement and manage security controls and consider lessons learnt in order to protect the bank from potential cyber-attacks and respond to threats.
Accountabilities
Management of security monitoring systems, including intrusive prevention and detection systems, to alert, detect and block potential cyber security incidents, and provide a prompt response to restore normal operations with minimised system damage.
Identification of emerging cyber security threats, attack techniques and technologies to detect/prevent incidents, and collaborate with networks and conferences to gain industry knowledge and expertise.
Management and analysis of security information and event management systems to collect, correlate and analyse security logs, events and alerts/potential threats.
Triage of data loss prevention alerts to identify and prevent sensitive data for being exfiltrated from the banks network.
Management of cyber security incidents including remediation & driving to closure.
Analyst Expectations
To perform prescribed activities in a timely manner and to a high standard consistently driving continuous improvement.
Requires in-depth technical knowledge and experience in their assigned area of expertise
Thorough understanding of the underlying principles and concepts within the area of expertise
They lead and supervise a team, guiding and supporting professional development, allocating work requirements and coordinating team resources.
If the position has leadership responsibilities, People Leaders are expected to demonstrate a clear set of leadership behaviours to create an environment for colleagues to thrive and deliver to a consistently excellent standard. The four LEAD behaviours are: L - Listen and be authentic, E - Energise and inspire, A - Align across the enterprise, D - Develop others.
OR for an individual contributor, they develop technical expertise in work area, acting as an advisor where appropriate.
Will have an impact on the work of related teams within the area.
Partner with other functions and business areas.
Takes responsibility for end results of a team’s operational processing and activities.
Escalate breaches of policies / procedure appropriately.
Take responsibility for embedding new policies/ procedures adopted due to risk mitigation.
Advise and influence decision making within own area of expertise.
Take ownership for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work you own or contribute to. Deliver your work and areas of responsibility in line with relevant rules, regulation and codes of conduct.
Maintain and continually build an understanding of how own sub-function integrates with function, alongside knowledge of the organisations products, services and processes within the function.
Demonstrate understanding of how areas coordinate an