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Information Security Analyst - SecOps Response

Starling Manchester, England Hybrid senior Full-time

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Description

Starling is seeking a skilled Incident Responder to join its growing Security Operations team. The successful candidate will proactively defend Starling's customers, assets, and systems against emerging threats.

Responsibilities:

  • Conduct incident response activities to investigate and contain cyber security incidents
  • Develop and maintain incident response and readiness processes
  • Analyse logs from various sources to identify root cause and determine next steps for containment, eradication, and recovery
  • Plan and participate in Tabletop Exercises
  • Document notes, analysis findings, containment steps, and cause for each security incident
  • Collaborate with other teams to analyse, contain, eradicate, and recover from cyber security incidents
  • Present investigation findings to technical and non-technical audiences
  • Support the wider SecOps team with detection engineering and threat hunting

Requirements:

  • 3+ years experience in cyber incident response and digital forensics
  • Experience in handling incidents
  • Experience in cloud forensics (GCP, AWS)
  • Experience in endpoint and server forensics (Windows, MacOS, Linux)
  • Experience in network forensics
  • Experience with forensics data acquisition, disk forensics, and memory forensics
  • Experience in supporting and planning Tabletop Exercises
  • Understanding of network, cloud, and operating system security controls
  • Excellent communication skills
  • Demonstrated teamwork and collaboration skills
  • Time management, problem-solving, and interpersonal skills
  • Eagerness to learn and apply knowledge to new security challenges
  • Willingness to share knowledge with the team and mentor colleagues

Preferred:

  • Experience with at least one programming or scripting language
  • Experience with container security
  • Experience conducting proactive threat hunting
  • Understanding of malware analysis techniques
  • Relevant certifications such as GIAC Certified Forensic Analyst or similar

Benefits:

  • 25 days holiday
  • Extra day's holiday for birthday
  • Annual leave increases with length of service
  • 16 hours paid volunteering time
  • Salary sacrifice, company-enhanced pension scheme
  • Life insurance and group income protection
  • Private Medical Insurance
  • Perkbox membership
  • Access to initiatives like Cycle to Work and Electric Vehicle leasing

Skills

Required

  • incident response
  • digital forensics
  • cloud forensics
  • endpoint forensics
  • network forensics
  • Tabletop Exercises
  • communication skills
  • teamwork
  • problem-solving

Nice to have

  • programming
  • container security
  • threat hunting
  • malware analysis
  • GIAC certifications
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