Senior Cyber Security Analyst

Role overview

Security operations and incident response

• Detect, triage, investigate, and respond to cyber security events and incidents using monitoring and analysis tools.
• Lead and support incident response, including investigation, containment, eradication, resolution, and post-incident reviews.
• Analyze alerts, assess emerging threats and vulnerabilities, and conduct threat hunting using indicators of compromise and threat intelligence.
• Collaborate with infrastructure, cloud, network, and development teams to investigate and resolve complex security issues.
• Contribute to incident response process improvements and participate in out-of-hours or major incident activities when required.

Security engineering and improvement

• Tune monitoring solutions, improve detection accuracy, reduce false positives, and develop security detections and alerting.
• Automate routine security activities and support integration of new platforms and technologies into security monitoring.
• Evaluate security services, controls, and tools; contribute to vulnerability management and recommend improvements.
• Develop metrics, dashboards, and reporting, and work with project and product teams to include security throughout delivery.
• Keep current with technologies, industry trends, and evolving cyber threats and apply findings to improve security.

Leadership and professional practice

• Advise technical and non-technical stakeholders and respond to security-related enquiries.
• Mentor analysts, promote knowledge sharing, and support professional development.
• Create and maintain procedures, playbooks, investigation guides, and system configuration documentation.
• Support security standards, policies, and procedures, and build relationships with colleagues, suppliers, and external partners.
• Contribute to continuous improvement, innovation, and operational excellence.

Salary and pension

• The stated total remuneration is £60,291–£70,987, including a 20% Digital, Data and Technology annual pay supplement.
• The base salary is £50,243–£59,156; the role also offers a Civil Service Pension with a stated 28.97% employer contribution.

Contract and working pattern

• Permanent contract; full-time working pattern.

Location

• The description lists Edinburgh and Glasgow as locations.

Requirements

• Experienced cyber security professional with the capability to perform senior security operations work.
• Ability to detect, investigate, and respond to cyber security events and incidents.
• Ability to provide cyber security advice and guidance to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Ability to mentor and support Cyber Security Analysts.