Technical Operations Analyst

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Job title: Technical Operations Analyst

Location: Preston/Filton/Frimley - Hybrid 2/3 split -Initially onsite for training

Salary: From £40,000 dependant on skills and experience

What you'll be doing:

• Working as part of a team safeguarding BAE Systems against cyber threats by developing and enhancing the Technical Operations capability across People, Process, and Technology, ensuring an efficient approach to all Cyber Operations
• Continuously working toward organisational, departmental, and individual objectives and upholding security standards and principles
• Supporting the identification and creation of automations and integrations
• Proactively normalising and cleansing data for SIEM and SOAR consumption
• Supporting other SOC capabilities with data consumption and interpretation
• Create dashboards to normalise key security analytic data to present to key stakeholders
• Ensuring data sources adhere to enterprise logging standards, utilising SIEM and SOAR technologies
• Applying methodical and logical approach to use large datasets to construct actionable information to enhance the detection of suspicious activity

Your skills and experiences:

Essential:

• Understanding of enterprise networking and computing
• Knowledge of Python 3 programming language
• A proven technical background with a detailed knowledge of cyber security, computer networks and operating systems

Desirable:

• Knowledge of using SIEM platforms to identify suspected security events and creating content to enhance the platform
• Demonstrable experience in using SOAR tooling and its application
• Broad and detailed experience of technologies including but not limited to firewalls, IDS/IPS, Active Directory, endpoint protection, Windows Server, Linux, TCP/IP, Networks, Cloud, CDN's, Vulnerability Management

Benefits:

You'll receive benefits including a competitive pension scheme, enhanced annual leave allowance and a Company contributed Share Incentive Plan. You'll also have access to additional benefits such as flexible working, an employee assistance programme, Cycle2work and employee discounts - you may also be eligible for an annual incentive.

The Cyber Operations Team:

Cyber Operations is responsible for protecting BAE Systems from Cyber Attack by various threat actors. Not only do we protect BAE Systems and its employees, indirectly we protect those who protect us - who serve in our military and rely on the products and services we create. Across Threat Intelligence, Detection, Incident Response and now Active Defence we work to evolve cyber operations as a world class capability.

Why BAE Systems?

This is a place where you'll be able to make a real difference. You'll be part of an inclusive culture that values diversity, rewards integrity, and merit, and where you'll be empowered to fulfil your potential. We welcome candidates from all backgrounds and particularly from sections of the community who are currently underrepresented within our industry, including women, ethnic minorities, people with disabilities and LGBTQ+ individuals.

We also want to make sure that our recruitment processes are as inclusive as possible. If you have a disability or health condition (for example dyslexia, autism, an anxiety disorder etc.) that may affect your performance in certain assessment types, please speak to your recruiter about potential reasonable adjustments.

Please be aware that many roles working for BAE Systems will be subject to both security and export control restrictions. These restrictions mean that factors including your nationality, any previous nationalities you have held, and your place of birth may limit those roles you can perform for the organisation.

Closing Date: 8th May 2024

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.