Cyber Security Specialist

The Cyber role is to join a growing security team responsible for designing, delivering and maintaining operational cybersecurity capabilities.

Conducting pro-active, risk-based, protective monitoring on priority C4IS/networks to identify internal and external cyber-threats/attacks.

This position involves a broad range of skills, including the development and mentoring of junior analysts, monitoring networks to actively remediate unauthorised activities.

Your role

• Develop and integrate security event monitoring and incident management services.

• Respond to security incidents as they occur as part of an incident response team.

• Implement metrics and dashboards to give visibility of the Enterprise infrastructure.

• Use of the SOAR platform to assist with playbook automation and case management capabilities to streamline team processes and tools.

• Produce documentation to ensure the repeatability and standardisation of security operating procedures.

• Develop additional investigative methods using the SOC’s software toolsets to enhance recognition opportunities for specific analysis.

• Maintain a baseline of system security according to latest threat intelligence and evolving trends.

• Participate in root cause analysis of incidents in conjunction with engineers across the enterprise.

• Provide Subject Matter Expertise (SME) on a broad range of information security standards and best practices.

• Offer strategic and tactical security guidance including valuation requirement of technical controls.

• Be part of the CRM process

• Liaise with the SOC engineers to maintain up-to-date dashboards of security alerts, to allow the organisation to better respond to an incident.

• Document, validate and create operational processes and procedures to help develop the SOC.

• Assist in identifying, prioritising, and coordinating the protection of critical cyber defence infrastructure and key resources.

• Build, install, configure, and test dedicated cyber defence hardware.

• Support Junior Analysts to manage SOC systems.

• Previous experience of Enterprise ICS/network architectures and technologies

• Experience and knowledge of SIEM solutions; having the ability to identify use cases and their creation, their deployment and tuning.

• Experience as a mentor/coach to junior analysts Your profile

• Previous experience of utilising the MITRE ATT&CK and Cyber Kill Chain frameworks

Experience with ELK (Elastic, Logstash, Kibana) and Tanium

• Skilled in maintaining Microsoft directory services.

• Skilled in using virtualisation software.

• Knowledge of key security frameworks (e.g. ISO, NIST 800-53, 800-171, 800-172, C2M2)

• Excellent communication skills

• Experience of writing Defence/Government documentation

Desirable Qualifications

Broad Spectrum Cyber Course (SANS SEC401 or SEC501 or equivalent) • SIEM Design, Architecture and Analyst Course (SANS SEC455 or SEC555 or equivalent) • Advanced Analyst Course (SANS SEC503 or equivalent)