Senior Security Analyst - Pontefract, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom

Job summary

Working in the Information Security team you will focus on Incident Response across the Next technology estate, with a particular focus on our Warehouse environment, responding to and investigating events generated by our security controls. You will work closely with Information Security's Vulnerability Management Team and other teams located at the warehouse, Focussing on the warehouse specific technologies and identifying control and monitoring gaps among that technology

Responsibilities

• Continuously monitor Next's technical security controls in order to promptly identify and investigate potential threats.
• Respond to Security Incidents ensuring prompt containment and recovery.
• Carry out forensic investigations following security incidents.
• Ensure all investigations and incidents are accurately logged and managed in our ITSM tool.
• Participate in lessons learned meetings and make recommendations for improvements to controls or processes ensuring these are implemented where agreed.
• Liaise with other IT Teams, business areas and 3rd Parties to aid in incident investigations and response.
• Ensure continuous awareness of new and emerging threats and understand the TTPs and their relevance to the Next environment.
• Identify false positives and tuning requirements for security controls and work with the Security Engineering team to implement improvements.
• Work with our Security Engineering and Vulnerability & Threat Management Team to test our controls and processes in order to proactively identify opportunities for improvement.
• Create and maintain operational procedures and technical documentation.
• Manage and maintain metrics and reporting to ensure the security threats and trends impacting our business are understood.

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