Operational Security Analyst

Role overview

Responsibilities

• Analyze, classify, and respond to security incidents and alerts, including notification and alerting.
• Monitor for incidents and advise customers on mitigation or remedial actions.
• Investigate unauthorized account activity, compromised accounts, privilege creep, data loss, and policy breaches.
• Establish incident facts, assess impact and risks, and coordinate with resolver groups.
• Work with internal teams, strategic support partners, and third-party vendors to protect on-premises and hosted systems.
• Provide security consultancy to internal teams.
• Maintain awareness of evolving threats and vulnerabilities.
• Update security documentation, processes, and procedures.
• Coordinate vulnerability triage and management with internal and external teams.

Skills and experience

• Experience assisting with Joiners, Movers, and Leavers processes.
• Demonstrable experience handling cryptographic assets and related audits and processes.
• Knowledge and/or experience of PKI ceremonies.
• Knowledge of security infrastructure monitoring and reporting real-time attacks and vulnerabilities.
• Knowledge and experience of information security tools such as LogRhythm and Tenable.
• Experience supporting incident assessment, business impact analysis, and containment advice.
• Experience with vulnerability management and team-based triage.
• Knowledge and experience of SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS solutions is desirable.

Working hours

• Support hours are Monday to Friday, 08:00–18:00, to fulfil 37 hours per week.
• Start times may be early or late and rotated as directed by service delivery or the team lead.

Benefits

• 26 days of annual leave plus public holidays, including three flexible days.
• Pension with double-matching contributions up to 10%, life assurance, and company incentive plans.
• Flexible benefits, employee discounts, an employee assistance programme, and virtual GP access.

Recruitment process

• The recruitment process consists of a one-stage interview.