Lead Monitoring Analyst - London, United Kingdom - Anson McCade Ltd - IT and Finance Recruitment

Anson McCade Ltd - IT and Finance Recruitment

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London, United Kingdom

4 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Lead Analyst - Security Monitoring

Overview

We have an exciting opportunity for a Lead Security Monitoring Analyst within the SOC team of one of the World's Leading IT Consultancies, considered one of the UK's best companies to work for in the last decade and known for its stellar Career development.

In this position, you will play a key role ensuring that business IT systems are protected and monitored from threats and take appropriate actions as part of the incident response process.

You will support colleagues in other security teams and technology functions,ensuring that appropriate controls are maintained to protect the environment.

As a security lead analyst, you will:

Act as an escalation point for other security analysts in the SOC, including 3rd party MSSP.
Triage and manage incidents, events and queries from the business to the relevant resolver group.
Maintain event response documentation, participate in postmortems, and write event reports
Contribute to projects that enhance the security posture of the company.
Review and prioritise alerts based on Standard Operating Procedures.
Identify and record gaps in visibility and security posture through the course of investigations as per defined Standard Operating Procedures.
Ensure that cases are accurately categorised to ensure the appropriate feedback is provided to the Detection and Response Engineering team and to facilitate reporting.

A security Lead Analyst will need:

Ensure that cases are accurately categorised to ensure the appropriate feedback is provided to the Detection and Response Engineering team and to facilitate reporting.
Hands on experience working within a security operation centre is beneficial.
Present knowledge of the cyber security threats landscape.
Knowledge of computer networking concepts and protocols as well as network security methodologies
Knowledge of encryption algorithms and network protocols such as TCP/DNS/Dynamic Host Configuration.
The ability to interpret the information collected by network tools.

£55,000 - £60,000 Base salary + 15% Bonus
Hybrid working - UK Wide

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