Lead Cyber Security Analyst
Crown Commercial Service
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Liverpool • 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
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💰 £59,877 - £66,869 per year
Job Level
Senior
Tech Stack
AWSAzureCyber Security
About the role
- Establish and lead newly formed cyber security team reporting to Head of Service and Infrastructure
- Understand, detect and respond to cyber threats and vulnerabilities affecting services
- Lead monitoring, triaging and investigation of security alerts on Azure and AWS platforms
- Review high-priority or high-complexity security event analysis and manage incident response, reporting and escalations
- Lead design, development and enablement of automated monitoring processes and advise on SIEM and network analysis tools and techniques
- Coordinate triage and remediation of identified threats using a risk-based approach with service teams and developers
- Lead wider implementation of a monitoring strategy and ensure roadmaps, requirements, policies and standards are met
- Produce regular reporting delivering insights on security monitoring activities and cyber risk
- Establish understanding of data security and architectures and define requirements to improve security tooling
- Develop and update internal plans, processes and knowledge base articles and support wider Cyber Defence activities
- Line manage, act as escalation point for, and provide coaching and mentoring to Security analysts
Requirements
- A track record in cyber security leadership, strategy development and planning in large and complex organisations
- Demonstrable technical security knowledge of modern security concepts, principles and technologies for Azure, AWS, and SaaS
- Expert knowledge of typical threats and attack vectors with appropriate monitoring and remediation strategies
- Experience using a variety of sources of information to identify, analyse and report on relevant threats and vulnerabilities
- Developed problem solving skills including addressing complex technical security and process challenges ensuring delivery at pace to an appropriate risk appetite
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with ability to communicate complex security concepts to non-technical stakeholders and influence stakeholders
- Ability to create easy to consume articles such as blogs, policies and presentations
- Experience leading and line managing security analysts (implied by role responsibilities)
- Desirable: Experience deploying, configuring and using vulnerability assessment tools (such as Tenable and the NCSC’s Active Cyber Defence Toolkit) and Attack Surface Management tools
Benefits
- Competitive salary
- Generous pension scheme
- A discretionary non-contractual performance related bonus
- Working remotely in addition to working in advertised office location
- Flexi time scheme (available for B1-B6)
- Minimum 25 days annual leave (up to 30 days service related) excluding bank holidays
- Career development opportunities
- Inclusive culture that values work-life balance and flexibility
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
cyber security leadershipincident responsesecurity event analysisautomated monitoring processesdata securityvulnerability assessmentattack surface managementrisk-based approachmonitoring strategiessecurity concepts
Soft skills
problem solvingcommunicationinterpersonal skillsinfluencing stakeholderscoachingmentoringstrategic planningteam leadershipreportinganalytical skills