Cyber Security Analyst

Your new company

Our client provides infrastructure and utility services within water, energy, transport and telecom within the UK & Ireland.

Your new role

Our client is offering a Cybersecurity Analyst the opportunity to join their Information Security team. The team is growing to encompass further requirement - they are committed to protecting the business and helping their staff to be secure in ther work.
They are looking for a meticulous and detail-orientated security analyst to be responsible for monitoring the security systems in their organisation.
Responsibilities are below:

• Monitor, act on security incidents, requests, and events to ensure that threats, vulnerabilities, and breaches are managed to minimise impact to confidentiality, integrity and availability of MGS systems and data.
• Prioritise and diagnose security incidents according to agreed procedures.
• Investigate the causes of incidents, document findings and seek resolution.
• Escalate unresolved incidents according to agreed procedures.
• Facilitate recovery, following the resolution of incidents [SN1].
• Document and close resolved security incidents according to agreed procedures.
• Managing, monitoring Security software (CrowdStrike, Appcheck, Active Directory)
• Managing IS reports (CrowdStrike, Mimecast, business)

What you'll need to succeed

To be successfully appointed, you should have a strong working knowledge of cybersecurity, including intrusion prevention and incidence response. You should be strong analytically with good communication, interpersonal and leadership skills.
Operational hands-on experience in some of the following technologies is required:

• Palo Alto NGFW
• IDS & IPS
• Active Directory and Group Policies
• Azure Conditional Access Policies
• CrowdStrike Falcon
• Microsoft Security Tooling - Defender, Security Centre
• End Point Protection
• E-mail protection
• Vulnerability Management
• Web Application Firewall
• Web Filtering technologies
• Network technologies
• Azure Cloud Security Services, Office 365, Intune
• Website security
• Mobile Device Management

What you'll get in return

The opportunity to join a growing team and organisation, working on multiple exciting projects in a role that allows for strong career progression opportunities. In addition, you will be entitled to 25 days annual leave plus statutory holidays, discretionary annual bonus, contributory pension scheme, life assurance, access to the Employee Assistance Programme, private healthcare and much more.

What you need to do now

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