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Vacancy for Information Security Analyst
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Location Direct House, Birmingham
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Contract Type Permanent - Employee
Working Hours per Week 40
Remuneration £50,000 + Car Allowance (£425pm)
Job Reference GR/8663

Working within a newly formed IT team in our Birmingham office,

we are seeking a confident, credible, technically minded and
passionate individual to join the Security Operation Centre (SOC)
/ Computer Security Incident Response Team with hands-on
experience working within a SOC environment, eager to develop
their career and work on several highly important projects.

As the Information Security Analyst, you’ll help the SOC in daily

operations, working with sophisticated information security
tools, investigating security incidents and ensuring that
policies/procedures are observed to maintain and improve the
security posture of our organisation, along with providing advice
and guidance to a variety of stakeholders to improve awareness.

Specifically, you will

Act upon security events, requests and incidents logged in
management systems such as remedy and assure.
Ensure that threats, vulnerabilities and breaches are
managed to minimise impact to confidentiality, integrity
and availability of systems and data.
Attend risk assessments to determine and record mitigating
actions to identified risks.
Use SIEM and service reporting tools to monitor the security
posture of the IT estate and identify irregular activity and
behaviours.
Refine and develop dashboards and reports to continuously
improve security situational awareness.
Use security tools and develop simple scripts to assist with
the ongoing analysis of a security event or incident.
Perform quarterly network and wireless vulnerability
assessments, create service requests with support teams to
address weaknesses found and monitor and report on
progress.
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As subject matter expert for operational security, you’ll provide
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advice and guidance to other teams within the business on good

practice. You will have a strong passion for cyber security both in
and outside of your work, focused on maintaining relevant and
current industry knowledge through your own interest,
publications, events and training. You will have:
Experience and ability to analyse, map, protect or discover
vulnerabilities, intrusions and threats in computer network
systems and respond accordingly.
Knowledge on how to perform technical analysis of
malware, with the ablility to analyse the inner workings and
develop defensive countermeasures.
Certifications - Security+, Offensive Security or similar
Strong IT skills in Windows, Unix/Linux or Networking
Good understanding of IT security principles
Experience using vulnerability assessment tools like Nessus,
Saint and other closed-source and open source Kali-Based
tools
Experience using Security Information and Event
Management (SIEM) tools like AlienVault, Splunk
Knowledge of network protocols and technologies such as
TCP/IP, PKI, Firewalls
Knowledge of penetration testing techniques
Ability to identify and define risk mitigation strategies
Knowledge of IT control frameworks (e.g. ISO, NIST, COBIT,
PCI) SOC Analyst, AV, IDS, SIEM, FIM, IAM, DLP, Python,
Power shell, SQL, penetration testing, ISO, NIST, COBIT, PCI,
GDPR)
Communication and credibility is key for this role, so it is
important for the selected candidate to be confident in
explaining complicated issues in layman's terms across the
organisation.

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