Incident Responder

Starling Bank is seeking an experienced Incident Responder to join its growing Security Operations team. The successful candidate will be responsible for proactively defending Starling's customers, assets, and systems against emerging threats. This role involves supporting 24/7 operational capabilities, including an on-call rota.

The Incident Responder will report to the Information Security Lead - SecOps Response and will be responsible for:

• Conducting incident response activities to investigate and contain cyber security incidents
• Developing and maintaining incident response and readiness processes
• Analysing logs from various sources to identify root causes and determine next steps for containment, eradication, and recovery
• Planning and participating in Tabletop Exercises
• Documenting notes, analysis findings, containment steps, and causes for each security incident
• Collaborating with other teams to analyse, contain, eradicate, and recover from cyber security incidents
• Presenting investigation findings to technical and non-technical audiences
• Supporting the wider SecOps team with detection engineering and threat hunting

Requirements:

• 3+ years of experience in a cyber incident response and digital forensics function
• Experience in handling incidents, cloud forensics (GCP, AWS), endpoint and server forensics (Windows, MacOS, Linux), and network forensics
• Experience with forensics data acquisition, disk forensics, and memory forensics
• Understanding of network, cloud, and operating system security controls
• Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written
• Demonstrated teamwork and collaboration skills
• Time management, problem-solving, and interpersonal skills
• Eagerness to learn and apply knowledge to new security challenges

Preferred skills:

• Experience with at least one programming or scripting language (e.g., Python, Go, Bash)
• Experience with container security
• Experience conducting proactive threat hunting, defining hypotheses, and developing hunting methodologies
• Understanding of malware analysis techniques

Benefits:

• 25 days of holiday (plus taking public holiday allowance whenever works best for you)
• An extra day's holiday for your birthday
• Annual leave is increased with length of service, and you can choose to buy or sell up to five extra days off
• 16 hours of paid volunteering time a year
• Salary sacrifice, company-enhanced pension scheme
• Life insurance at 4x your salary & group income protection
• Private Medical Insurance with VitalityHealth, including mental health support and cancer care
• Generous family-friendly policies
• Perkbox membership giving access to retail discounts, a wellness platform for physical and mental health, and weekly free and boosted perks
• Access to initiatives like Cycle to Work, Salary Sacrificed Gym partnerships, and Electric Vehicle (EV) leasing