Description
The Cyber Defence team delivers cyber threat intelligence, threat detection, incident response and vulnerability management capabilities for the Cabinet Office, and is responsible for defending both internal IT infrastructure and citizen-facing services.
As a senior security analyst, you'll take a leading role in building and delivering these core capabilities, focusing on incident response.
Job Description:
As a senior security analyst with responsibility for incident response, you will:
- Lead the investigation of security alerts to understand the nature and extent of possible cyber incidents
- Lead the forensic analysis of systems, files, network traffic and cloud environments
- Lead the technical response to cyber incidents by identifying and implementing (or coordinating the implementation of) containment, eradication and recovery actions
- Support the wider coordination of cyber incidents
- Review previous incidents to identify lessons and actions
- Identify and deliver opportunities for continual improvement of the incident response capability
- Work closely alongside other Cyber Defence functions, supporting the continual improvement of wider capabilities
- Develop and update internal plans, playbooks and knowledge base articles
- Act as an escalation point for, and provide coaching and mentoring to, security analysts
- Be responsible for leadership and line management of security analysts
Person Specification:
- Significant experience investigating and responding to cyber incidents
- Significant experience using security tools (e.g., EDR, SIEM) to support the investigation and response to cyber incidents
- Experience managing and coordinating the response to cyber incidents
- Experience coaching and mentoring junior staff
- An in-depth understanding of the tools, techniques and procedures used by threat actors
- Excellent analytical and problem solving skills
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Experience with Splunk
- Experience working in an Agile environment
- Experience with cloud environments such as AWS
Desirable Skills:
- Information risk assessment
- Risk management
Benefits:
Alongside your salary of £59,207, Cabinet Office contributes £17,152 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme.
- Learning and development tailored to your role
- An environment with flexible working options
- A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity
- A Civil Service Pension which provides an attractive pension, benefits for dependants and employer contributions of 28.97%
- A minimum of 25 days of paid annual leave, increasing by one day per year up to a maximum of 30