Senior Security Analyst - City IT UK Remote / Any Location Bookmark Share Print 147 0 6

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At CEF we have a bold ambition for growth. We are passionate about delivering an unrivalled service for our customers and providing a strong culture with career opportunities for our people.

Across IT we are on an exciting mission to ensure we harness our growth opportunities by designing our technology architecture and solutions for constant evolution. We recognise that technology and data are at the forefront of enabling our business to better serve our customers today and in the future.

We have a fast-growing technology team delivering a portfolio of transformative work, expanding our digital options, and upgrading and future-proofing our systems to place us at the forefront of the marketplace.

We believe that teams who design, own and run our technology solutions are more connected to the value they create.

We are always looking to improve, collaborate and innovate and this is where you come in…

Job Purpose:

We are undertaking an ambitious cloud transformation for our Enterprise. Our new Senior Security Analyst will work closely with Cyber Security Manager and Head of Information Security to protect CEF from cyber attacks. The Security Analyst will also be responsible for monitoring network traffic and alerts for security events, investigating and responding to events in a timely fashion whilst mentoring and supporting the Security Analyst already in situ.

They will also support the deployment and configuration of new security tools whenever needed, working closely with the Incident Response Manager if a security incident is suspected.

Threat hunting will also be a part of this role – you will be responsible for creating and maintaining use-cases, detections, threat hunts and playbooks using industry best-practice, detections frameworks and emerging threat intelligence.

You will be an experienced IT professional who has supported the design and implementation of IT systems and procedures, preferably to protect an organisations data and protect computer networks from Cyber Attacks.

Tasks will include:

Being the proactive defence of our systems in order to look for potential threats and security issues.

Develop threat hunting, adversary emulation, leading-edge threat mitigation methodologies, and security use cases to drive the technical skill set of the team forward.

Implement components of a layered Information Security defence to protect on premise, cloud and individual devices, systems and infrastructure

Monitor on premise, cloud and individual devices for security events and escalate where necessary in a timely manner to the appropriate individual

Work with the wider CEF IT Team to maintain an accurate asset and data inventory, ensuring appropriate security controls are working effectively when deployed

Essential Experience:

Experience in security technologies & defences such as Firewalls, Snort, Bro, Intrusion Detection System (IDS) monitoring and custom rule creation (YARA), TCP/IP Networking, WireShark, TCPDump, Netflow analysis.

In-depth knowledge deploying and managing EDR and familiar with XDR concepts and technologies

Experience in a wide range of log sources, normalising data, and querying using analytical platforms (e.g. SumoLogic, Splunk, Elastic, MDE, and MCAS).

Ability to analyse and interpret MITRE ATT&CK matrices and use them for threat hunting, investigation, and proactive defence strategies.

Experience in deploying and managing deception technologies, such as honeypots, honeytokens and decoy systems.

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