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    Information Security Analyst - Manchester, United Kingdom - Starling Bank

    Starling Bank
    Starling Bank Manchester, United Kingdom

    3 weeks ago

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    Full time
    Description

    Starling is the UK's first and leading digital bank on a mission to fix banking We built a new kind of bank because we knew technology had the power to help people save, spend and manage their money in a new and transformative way.

    We're a fully licensed UK bank with the culture and spirit of a fast-moving, disruptive tech company. We're a bank, but better: fairer, easier to use and designed to demystify money for everyone. We employ more than 3,000 people across our London, Southampton, Cardiff and Manchester offices.

    Our technologists are at the very heart of Starling and enjoy working in a fast-paced environment that is all about building things, creating new stuff, and disruptive technology that keeps us on the cutting edge of fintech. We operate a flat structure to empower you to make decisions regardless of what your primary responsibilities may be, innovation and collaboration will be at the core of everything you do. Help is never far away in our open culture, you will find support in your team and from across the business, we are in this together

    The way to thrive and shine within Starling is to be a self-driven individual and be able to take full ownership of everything around you: From building things, designing, discovering, to sharing knowledge with your colleagues and making sure all processes are efficient and productive to deliver the best possible results for our customers. Our purpose is underpinned by five Starling values: Listen, Keep It Simple, Do The Right Thing, Own It, and Aim For Greatness.

    Hybrid Working

    We have a Hybrid approach to working here at Starling - our preference is that you're located within a commutable distance of one of our offices so that we're able to interact and collaborate in person. We don't like to mandate how much you visit the office and work from home, that's to be agreed upon between you and your manager.

    About the Role and Opportunity

    The Data Security team at Starling Bank is growing We are a newly formed team with a mandate to identify, manage, and remediate data security risks across the organisation. This role will play a pivotal role in safeguarding our data and infrastructure from cyber attacks.

    This role offers a unique opportunity to be at the forefront of protecting the financial interests of our clients and the integrity of our systems. If you are passionate about cyber security and thrive in collaborative environments, we would like to hear from you

    We're open-minded when it comes to hiring and we care more about aptitude and attitude than specific experience or qualifications. The opportunity is to develop and deliver your engineering and/or analyst skills within the Cyber security group, we recognise that an individual's professional development, strengths and preferences will change over time and so will the demands and opportunities within the bank.

    We value people being engaged and caring about customers, caring about the code they write or the business systems and processes they develop to make Starling Secure.

    What you'll get to do

  • Security Tooling - Deploy, manage, and optimise security tools including network monitoring, email security, data loss prevention, and user entity and behavioural analytic solutions.
  • Risk Assessment - Conduct regular security assessments and reviews to identify potential risks.
  • Identification, quantification and response to identified cyber security risks across the organisation.
  • Security Projects - Participate in the delivery of the security strategy by developing and improving security processes and procedures aligned to industry best practices.
  • Operational Improvement - Identify and engage with areas for automation or optimisation in daily workflows that will scale.
  • Collaboration - Work closely with other Security and Technology teams to ensure security measures are aligned with business and strategic objectives.
  • Requirements

    As a member of the Cyber Security team, whilst It is not expected that you will have worked in all of these areas, you will have a broad experience and knowledge across:

    Essential

  • Strong communication and interpersonal skills including the ability to explain complex security concepts to technical and non-technical audiences.
  • Understanding of cyber security controls within networking environments such as DNS, TLS, and SaaS technologies.
  • Design, development (including scripting and configuration) and continuous improvement of security solutions.
  • Champion efforts to secure business processes and data through collaboration
  • Control effectiveness assessment and continuous improvement.
  • Security principles including privileged access, role based access technologies and approaches.
  • Innovation mindset.
  • Enjoy problem solving.
  • Be self motivated and want to continue to learn and develop and challenge.
  • The ability to analyse data to support decisions, policies and principles.
  • Cyber risk assessment, quantification and treatment.
  • Desirable

  • Experience within or across Identify/Detect/Protect/Recover/Respond or Governance NIST Domains.
  • Experience with security control frameworks such as NIST CSF, CIS benchmarks, ISO27001, SOC2.
  • Familiarity or curiosity about Technical or engineering skills including programming and scripting.
  • Cyber security in a cloud environment ( AWS, GCP).
  • Interview process

    Interviewing is a two way process and we want you to have the time and opportunity to get to know us, as much as we are getting to know you Our interviews are conversational and we want to get the best from you, so come with questions and be curious. In general you can expect the below, following a chat with one of our Talent Team:

  • Introductory 45 min interview - Hiring manager
  • More in depth 60 min interview - Security team
  • Final 45 min interview - Leadership
  • Benefits

  • 25 days holiday (plus take your public holiday allowance whenever works best for you)
  • An extra day's holiday for your birthday
  • Annual leave is increased with length of service, and you can choose to buy or sell up to five extra days off
  • 16 hours paid volunteering time a year
  • Salary sacrifice, company enhanced pension scheme
  • Life insurance at 4x your salary & group income protection
  • Private Medical Insurance with VitalityHealth including mental health support and cancer care. Partner benefits include discounts with Waitrose, Mr&Mrs Smith and Peloton
  • Generous family-friendly policies
  • Incentives refer a friend scheme
  • Perkbox membership giving access to retail discounts, a wellness platform for physical and mental health, and weekly free and boosted perks
  • Access to initiatives like Cycle to Work, Salary Sacrificed Gym partnerships and Electric Vehicle (EV) leasing
  • About Us

    You may be put off applying for a role because you don't tick every box. Forget that While we can't accommodate every flexible working request, we're always open to discussion. So, if you're excited about working with us, but aren't sure if you're 100% there yet, get in touch anyway. We're on a mission to radically reshape banking – and that starts with our brilliant team. Whatever came before, we're proud to bring together people of all backgrounds and experiences who love working together to solve problems.


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