Cyber Security Analyst

Serves as the operational backbone of the SOC, responsible for day-to-day monitoring, triage, investigation, and initial incident response activities. Supports senior team members by handling frontline operations and providing valuable operational insights.,

• Monitor, triage, and investigate security alerts across protective monitoring platforms
• Review security event data, identify incidents, and escalation appropriately
• Support incident response activities including containment, eradication, and recovery
• Execute runbooks and contribute to their improvement
• Feed detection tuning recommendations back to the senior
• Coordinate with infrastructure and application teams during incidents under the senior's direction
• Contribute to dashboard monitoring and retrospective analysis
• Help shape the SOC's runbooks, processes, and operational standards as they are developed
  
  2-4 years in a SOC, monitoring, or security analyst role
• Hands-on SIEM experience and demonstrable alert triage capability
• Working knowledge of AWS security services
• Comfortable with ambiguity (the SOC is being built around them)
• Strong communication skills and ability to collaborate with technical teams
• Degree in a relevant technical field or equivalent professional experience
• At least one entry/mid-level certification (Security+, CySA+, BTL1, or SC-200)
• SC-cleared or genuinely cleared-eligible, Detection authoring experience (writing rules, not just consuming them)
• Scripting ability (Terraform, Python or PowerShell)
• Prior cleared environment experience
• Familiarity with AWS-native security tooling (GuardDuty, Security Hub, CloudTrail, Detective)
• Additional certifications (GCIA, AWS Certified Security Specialty, vendor-specific SIEM certs)
  
  Private Medical Health care via Vitality
• Pension contribution, Life Assurance
• Professional certifications supported as part of learning and development
• A range of retail discounts to enhance your lifestyle, encompassing restaurants, supermarkets, travel, leisure activities and health and well-being services
• Access to our Employee Resource Groups, which represent diverse backgrounds and provide a platform for colleagues to connect, learn, and support one another