# Cyber Defence Analyst

**Company**: Leidos
**Location**: Farnborough, Hampshire
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: £36,900.00-£46,100.00
**Category**: Security
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

We are seeking a Cyber Defence Analyst to protect customer services by identifying, investigating, and containing cyber threats across a 24x7x365 multi-customer CSOC.

The successful candidate will convert security telemetry, threat intelligence, and vulnerability information into timely, evidence-led decisions.

Key responsibilities include:

- Monitoring security alerts continuously and taking timely action to protect customer services

- Analysing alerts and supporting telemetry to establish context, scope, severity, and potential business impact

- Distinguishing true positives from benign or false-positive activity and documenting evidence-based rationales

- Creating and maintaining complete and accurate cyber security incident records

- Correlating logs and events across multiple sources to identify suspicious patterns and Indicators of Compromise (IOCs)

- Mapping observed adversary behaviour to relevant MITRE ATT&CK tactics, techniques, and sub-techniques

- Applying Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI) to investigations and hunting

- Assessing vulnerabilities in context and recommending proportionate countermeasures

- Collaborating with technical teams, customers, and stakeholders to drive investigations and agreed response actions

The ideal candidate will have:

- Knowledge of CSOC or security operations experience, or credible transferable cyber security knowledge

- Experience investigating security events and incidents in a CSOC or comparable environment

- Working knowledge of Microsoft Sentinel, Microsoft Defender XDR, Microsoft Defender Vulnerability Management, Microsoft Azure, and Amazon Web Services (AWS)

- Understanding of the Confidentiality, Integrity, and Availability (CIA) triad and its practical application

- Current awareness of malware, ransomware, and advanced persistent threat activity

- Practical knowledge of MITRE ATT&CK and its use in describing tactics, techniques, and observed adversary behaviour

We offer a salary range of £36,900 - £46,100, plus benefits including a contributory pension scheme, private medical insurance, 33 days annual leave, and flexible benefits.

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## Skills

### Required
- Microsoft Sentinel
- Microsoft Defender XDR
- Microsoft Azure
- Amazon Web Services (AWS)
- MITRE ATT&CK
- Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI)

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