Cyber Security Analyst Lead
Cardiff
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Description
As the Lead for the Cyber Security Analysts within Admiral’s Information Security Department you will be responsible for coordinating the efforts of our analysts to monitor and analyse cyber threats. The team is a key part of the SOC (Security Operations Centre) and sits alongside the Incident Response, Forensics, Threat Intelligence, Penetration Testing and Security Platform teams.
The Security Analyst team is responsible for monitoring and analysing the security tooling (such as the SIEM, AV, Firewalls) for suspicious activity. The team is threat-led and when there are no alarm/events to be investigated the team performs threat hunting, looking for previously undetected threats. The team has evolved significantly over the last few years to ensure it can keep pace with the ever-changing threat landscape and Admiral is looking to appoint a team lead to continue the threat-led journey.
As the Lead you will be responsible for co-ordinating the efforts of the analysts to ensure effective monitoring takes place; offering technical guidance during an investigation; reviewing and improving playbooks and processes; contributing to the strategy for the SOC; and management of the team.
You will have at least 2 years’ management experience and be able to evidence good coaching and leadership practices.
Responsibilities
The Cyber Security Analyst Lead will:
- Lead a team of tier 1 & 2 security analysts to deliver against the monitoring and response strategy.
- Coordinate analyst activities with ‘managed security services’ (MSS)
- Work with the other SOC teams to investigate, contain and remediate cyber security incidents.
- Assess the risk to the business, being prepared to change that assessment in the presence of new evidence.
- Communicate to stakeholders around the business and provide timely updates during an investigation.
- Ensure all security events are investigated and documented to completion.
- Analyse and offer improvements against user cases and playbooks.
- Participate in and help coordinate training scenarios to exercise processes, tools and staff across the wider security team.
- Stay up-to-date on the changing threat landscape.
Essential Experience/Skills
- 4 years’ experience in any of the following: Cyber security; IT operations; incident management or crisis management
- 2 years’ management experience.
- Understanding of the Cyber Kill Chain, MITRE ATT&CK and other information security defence and intelligence frameworks.
- Proficient with the use of a SIEM (Security Information and Event Management) tool.
- Understanding of enterprise grade technical security controls and defence in depth practices.
Desirable Skills
- One or more of the following:
- GIAC Certification such as: GCIH, GCIA, GDAT, GCDA, GISP, GCFE
- (ISC)2 Certification such as: CISSP
- CompTIA Certification such as: Security+, CySA+
- Diploma or Degree in a technical discipline such as: Computer Science, Engineering, Data analytics, Networking
- Familiarity with at least one cloud platform such as Microsoft Azure, Amazon AWS or Google GCP.
- Familiarity with a programming or scripting language.
About Admiral
We're Wales’ only FTSE 100 company. We have forward-thinking approaches and provide endless opportunities to test, learn and grow. There's a reason we've been named a Best Place to Work: our progressive culture, core values, and commitment to diversity and inclusion have created a working environment where people share ideas, aren’t afraid to speak up and change things, and above all, feel valued.
Admiral has grown from being a small start-up into a multi-national organisation. The company is constantly investigating new products, services and markets and is now present in eight countries with a diverse product portfolio.
Our success goes hand-in-hand with having a strong culture where we put our people and customers first. Our philosophy is simple yet effective: people who like what they do, do it better, and this, in turn, means that our customers receive the level of service and products that they deserve. Our culture is honest, open and wholeheartedly focused on four key areas:
Communication, Equality, Reward & Recognition, and Fun.
Salary, Benefits and Work-Life Balance
We do not have a set salary for this position, as it will be dependent on the successful candidate’s experience. We are happy to see CVs from all candidates who meet the requirements and will be happy to discuss the remuneration package.
At Admiral, we are proud to be a diverse business where we put our people and customers first. We have great benefits to ensure employees have a great work-life balance; it's one of the reasons we're voted no. 1 in the 2019 Sunday Times Best Big Companies to Work For in the UK. We want you to have an element of freedom to define a working lifestyle that supports this, so accommodate flexible hours wherever possible.
You can also view some of our other key benefits here; https://admiraljobs.co.uk/employee-benefits/.
If you think this role is for you and would like to be considered for this opportunity, please click “apply now” to complete an online application form.
Please note, we are unable to accept CVs via email and from agencies.
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