Security Analyst

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Security Analyst

Location: Southampton

Salary: £40,000

Ordnance Survey has an opportunity available for a Security Analyst to join the team based in Southampton. You will join us on a full time, permanent basis and in return, you will receive a competitive salary of circa £40,000 per annum plus excellent benefits - this is a fantastic opportunity to develop a rewarding career.

About us:

Ordnance Survey (OS) is the national mapping agency for Great Britain, and a world-leading geospatial data and technology organisation. Serving government, business and citizens across Britain and the world, OS helps customers in virtually all sectors improve quality of life.

Through the success of our mapping data, we’ve also attracted the attention of governments across the world who want what we have in Great Britain; so we help other countries to build the same capabilities in quality data accumulation and management, by offering advisory services, supporting other National Mapping Agency (NMA) and government data providers to further develop their capabilities and capacity.

We offer fantastic benefits to our Security Analyst:

- Salary circa £40,000

- Competitive pension

- 37 hour working week with flexible working hours

- 25 days annual leave - (30 days after five years) bank holidays and an extra 3 over Christmas

- Training & Development

- Paid volunteer day

- Bike to Work scheme (with secure bike storage and excellent changing facilities)

- Free onsite parking

- Subsidised on-site staff restaurant

- On-site nursery

- Very generous staff benefits including over 500 discounts from national stores

- Wide variety of sports and social clubs

- Support for your health and wellbeing from eye care vouchers to health checks

About the role:

As the national mapping agency for Great Britain, Ordnance Survey collects and maintains geographic data, using it to create a high quality and comprehensive suite of data sets, products and digital services. Increasingly our role is in the provision of digital services to a broad range of customers and end-users, both within Great Britain and beyond. Consequently, an effective IT security capability is vital to the organisations future, both in terms of the services we provide to customers, and ensuring the integrity of our own capabilities, which will increasingly make use of public cloud services.

We are looking for an experienced Security Analyst to join our growing Security function within the Engineering group. You will provide operational security services that meet the needs and ambitions of the organisation while ensuring compliance with Corporate Information Security policies.

Duties and responsibilities will include:

- Working with our IT department and members of the Information Security Team to identify, select and implement technical controls, tooling, policies and procedures

- Working with operational and service management teams to assess the severity of security patches, hot-fixes and service packs

- Be at the front-line of monitoring and responding to security-related events across the organisation, responding to and investigating alerts

- Conduct cyber-security risk assessment activities, analysing the results and producing recommendations to address and mitigate risks

- Support our Security Architect in the development of strategies, plans, policies and standards to enforce security requirements

Skills and experience required to be our Security Analyst:

You will need to demonstrate your track record against the following essential criteria:

- Excellent knowledge and experience of IT and network security

- Excellent knowledge, understanding and experience of information risk concepts and principles

- Very good knowledge and experience of cloud platforms, such as Azure, AWS and Oracle, as well as Windows and Linux platforms

- Good knowledge of vulnerability Management tools, Security Incident Event Management processes and Security Operations Centre

- Knowledge of the Data Protection Act and General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)

- Good familiarity with industry compliance and security standards such as Cyber Essentials, ISO 27001, cloud security, 10 Steps to Cyber Security

- Relevant qualifications, either Systems Security Certified Practitioner (SSCP), Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) or BCS Information Security Management Principles

- A minimum of two years in a security role or five years’ experience working in a 2nd or 3rd level technical role

Why not click ‘apply’ today? Don’t miss out on this opportunity to join the world’s leading map making and big data organisation as our Security Analyst.

Closing date: Monday 3rd September 2018