Cyber Security Analyst (L2)

Primary Function

Working within the SOC, acting as a point of contact for [Employer hidden] customers, providing them with excellent customer services and immediate response to incidents. You will also be a point of escalation for the team on shift before having to escalate to other technical teams.

Main Tasks

• Provide technical assistance and support to customers with a range of Cyber Security Solutions.
• Work with the SOC to manage Cyber Security Solutions defending customer infrastructure from exploitation and cyber-attacks.
• Respond to ongoing Cyber Security incidents detected by our monitoring solutions.
• Using tools such as Google SecOps SOAR / SIEM, Zabbix, Check Point, CrowdStrike and Google to assess and advise on security incidents to customers.
• Build out custom detection rules for the SOC to run through agentic processes.
• Build out custom workflows to increase the efficacy of context and reduce monotonous tasks for analysts.
• Build out and analyse reporting metrics to identify opportunities for new areas of proactive threat hunting and tailor detection engineering to specific industries.
• Leverage google threat intelligence and Wiz to build out processes for identifying and remediating threats at machine speed with the tooling available.
• Escalating security incidents and acting as an escalation point, too ensuring high quality and insightful recommendations are made as appropriate.
• Carry out the pre-defined handover process to other shifts.
• Carry out Incident Response actions swiftly, ensuring containment actions occur for any malicious indicators within security incidents.

Working Hours

You will work on a 5 week rotating 24 hr shift pattern from the Leeds office e.g Week 1 – 5 days 07.00 – 15.00 3 days off, Week 2 – 5 days 07.00 – 15.00 3 days off, Weeks 3 – 5 days 10.00 – 18.00 3 days off, Weeks 4 – 5 Days 15.00 – 23.00 2 days off, Week 5 – 23.00 – 07.00 3 days off.

Personal Qualities

• Self-motivation to learn, improve and keep up to date with technologies and concepts within the security industry.
• A “can-do” attitude.
• The drive to perform and excel, proactively.
• Be excited about technology and a desire to advance your career in Cyber Security
• Act as a mentor/leader for other SOC Analysts.

Qualifications & Experience

• At least 3+ years of experience in a SOC Analyst position or similar.
• Specialised in at least a single discipline within SecOps e.g. Detection Engineering, Incident Response, Cloud Engineering.
• Successful completion of a mid-level product-specific certification (e.g CySA+, BTL1 / BTL2, SAL1 / SAL2, eCTHP etc).
• Strong understanding and experience of networks / networking.
• Good understanding of Linux and Windows operating systems.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

About [Employer hidden]

Cyber Security Specialists, [Employer hidden] is an organisation providing advanced cyber security services solutions and tech-driven services powered by passionate and honest people. [Employer hidden] started out in Leeds as an organisation built to add value and do business the right way. [Employer hidden] are an award-winning cyber-security specialist, whose success is built on five values: Honesty, Passion, Tech Driven, People Powered, Committed to Doing Good. Every [Employer hidden] colleague lives these values every day. We have a culture of passionate people who work as a team that will never leave a job incomplete.

Benefits

• Payroll Giving
• Death in Service
• Birthday Leave
• Medical Cashback Plan
• Tech&Home Scheme
• Cycle Scheme
• Salary Sacrifice EV Scheme
• Discount voucher scheme
• Volunteer Leave
• Enhanced Maternity Policy