Cyber Security Analyst / IT Security Engineer

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Job Title: Security Analyst

Location: Hemel Hempstead

Salary: £50,000 per annum

Job Type: Full Time, Permanent (37.5 hours per week)

Working Hours: 09:00 to 17:30 Monday to Friday

The Company is an exciting established Technology company providing some of the largest businesses in the UK and globally with customer service and payment solutions. Their customers include some of the best-known brands across the world in the UK, US and Australia. Today, their aim is simple: To help their customers make every contact centre experience satisfying and secure for consumers. Come and discover what's refreshingly different about the Company.

Their Culture:

They work in an award winning, colourful, dynamic, and collaborative environment where you will find flexibility, an open plan office and excellent opportunities for career growth. Their cross-departmental teams work on exciting projects, releasing new technologies to a wide range of clients.

With over 250 colleagues spread across the globe, they are a friendly bunch with a lot of knowledge and exciting plans. They are serious about what they do, but they certainly have a sense of humour. The Company is brimming with friendly, energetic, and creative individuals, who are proud to be a part of their unique success story.

Their values sit at the heart of their culture and are summarised below.

They Encourage and support everyone to grow

They Challenge, listen, and are open minded to change and suggestions from others.

As trusted advisors, they use their Knowledge to solve challenges and deliver the best for clients

They take personal Ownership to strive for excellence in whatever they do

They are welcoming, embrace diversity and respect each other in a spirit of true Humanity

The Role:

As a Security Analyst with an exceptionally fast-growing technology company you will have the opportunity to work with some of the most advanced technologies.

Key Responsibilities:

Monitor, investigate and respond to security events.

Carry out Vulnerability scans and assessments of the Company's Physical and cloud-based infrastructure

Tuning of various security tools to ensure high fidelity, actionable alerts are produced

Investigate complex security events and alerts

Research Threats and Vulnerabilities

Monitor threat intelligence to ensure the Company's estate is protected against existing and emerging threats

Carry out threat hunting

Essential Skills/Knowledge:

Previous security analyst experience - monitoring, investigating, alerting and reporting security threats

Experience on SIEM tools preferably Splunk

Experience of IDS/IPS systems (FireSight)

Experience of Security Scanning for physical and cloud-based environments (Nessus)

A good understanding of threats and threat vectors

A sound knowledge of networking and traffic flow

The ability to work unsupervised and under pressure and commit

A sound understanding of security technologies and their function within a networked environment

Understanding of operating systems

Excellent verbal and written communication skills

Desirable Skills/Knowledge:

SIEM content creation

CISSP or equivalent

CEH / OSCP or equivalent

SANS training - 503/504

Splunk training

Sourcefire training

Knowledge of NIST, GDPR, ISO27001, PCI DSS etc.

Previous experience with packet capturing tools and analysis

Personality:

Self-starter

A great team player

Well-developed analytical and problem-solving skills

A strong desire to grow with them as a company

Company Benefits

25 days holiday and increases with service

Excellent Share Incentive Scheme

Life insurance

Simply Health scheme

Access to group Bupa membership scheme.

Pension scheme

Discretionary annual bonus

Employee Recognition schemes

Free tea, coffee, fresh fruit and snacks

Relaxation floor (lunch area, quiet room, pool table, Xbox)

Well-being initiatives, such as in-house Reflexology and Sports Massage

Discounted offers

Team days and Volunteering events

Christmas & summer company events

Focused on education and training (conference attendance, higher education sponsorship)

Please click the APPLY button to send your CV & Cover Letter for this role.

Candidates with the relevant experience or job titles of; Cyber Security Analyst, ICT Security Expert, Systems Developer, Architecture Information Security Specialist, Information Technology Security Specialist, Information Technology Security, Security Architect, Information Security Consultant, Information Technology Security Consultant, Senior Information Technology Security Officer, Information Technology Security Architect, Security Manager will also be considered for this role.