Cyber Security Analyst

Serves as the operational backbone of the SOC responsible for day-to-day monitoring triage investigation and initial incident response activities. Supports senior team members by handling frontline operations and providing valuable operational insights.

Key responsibilities:

• Monitor triage and investigate security alerts across protective monitoring platforms
• Review security event data identify incidents and escalate appropriately
• Support incident response activities including containment eradication and recovery
• Execute runbooks and contribute to their improvement
• Feed detection tuning recommendations back to the senior
• Coordinate with infrastructure and application teams during incidents under the seniors direction
• Contribute to dashboard monitoring and retrospective analysis
• Help shape the SOCs runbooks processes and operational standards as they are developed

Qualifications :

• 24 years in a SOC monitoring or security analyst role
• Hands-on SIEM experience and demonstrable alert triage capability
• Working knowledge of AWS security services
• Comfortable with ambiguity (the SOC is being built around them)
• Strong communication skills and ability to collaborate with technical teams
• Degree in a relevant technical field or equivalent professional experience
• At least one entry/mid-level certification (Security CySA BTL1 or SC-200)
• SC-cleared or genuinely cleared-eligible

Nice-to-haves:

• Detection authoring experience (writing rules not just consuming them)
• Scripting ability (Terraform Python or PowerShell)
• Prior cleared environment experience
• Familiarity with AWS-native security tooling (GuardDuty Security Hub CloudTrail Detective)
• Additional certifications (GCIA AWS Certified Security Specialty vendor-specific SIEM certs)

Additional Information :

Netcompany Academy

Through our Netcompany Academy we offer a diverse range of courses seminars and certifications carefully curated to support your development. As you advance in your career the Academy tailors its offerings to enhance your managerial skills deepen your understanding of methodologies hone your leadership abilities and fine-tune your strategic acumen. 

As you progress through the content youll naturally take on more responsibility and network with your peers.

Benefits include

• 25 days holiday
• Private Medical Health care via Vitality
• Pension contribution Life Assurance
• Professional certifications supported as part of learning and development.
• A range of retail discounts to enhance your lifestyle encompassing restaurants supermarkets travel leisure activities and health and well-being services.
• Access to our Employee Resource Groups our groups represent diverse backgrounds and provide a platform for colleagues to connect learn and support one another.

Company information

Join Netcompany where we proudly hold the 5th position on the esteemed UK Top 50 Best Places to Work in the Glassdoor Employees Choice Awards for 2024.

At Netcompany we pride ourselves on our entrepreneurial spirit and our capacity for doing things differently. Our culture is built on fostering low bureaucracy emphasizing high agility and promoting flexibility enabling everyone to contribute their best.

Our journey began in the UK with the acquisition of Hunter Macdonald in 2017. As one of Northern Europes most accomplished IT companies we have expanded our headcount globally to 7400 employees and have offices in UK Denmark Norway Poland Holland and Vietnam.

Netcompany is committed to providing an inclusive and barrier-free recruitment process for anyone wishing to apply for a job with us.  We operate a Disability Confident Interview Scheme which means that we offer guaranteed interviews to all applicants with a disability who meet the minimum criteria for a role. Applicants are asked to opt in so please let us know if you wish your application to be considered under this scheme.

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Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time