Senior Cyber Security Analyst

Location:
Newbury
Employment Type:
Permanent Employee

Role Summary

A Senior Cyber Security Analyst supports ROC with our commitment to protect our customers from cyber attacks and helps to continually develop our services and our team.

Key Responsibilities

  • Analyse detections and alerts from SOC tools including SIEM

  • Create, develop, and work with automations and playbooks using SOAR tools

  • Implement and support mitigations and remediations during threat of and post attack

  • Ensure efficient and effective SOC operations

  • Assist in building ROC cyber products and services for customers

  • Act as a cyber advisory for ROC customers

Knowledge & Skills

Essential
  • Advanced Cyber Security concepts

  • Advanced knowledge of Cyber Security tools and technologies

  • Good understanding of Malware concepts and types

  • Good understanding of Cyber risk management

  • Ability to communicate complex analysis & cyber concepts to customers

  • SIEM & SIEM Content. Specifically Microsoft Sentinel and Google SecOps

  • SOAR & Playbooks

Desirable
  • Scripting, for example Python or Powershell

  • Malware analysis

  • “Kill Chain” analysis

  • Penetration Testing knowledge

  • Detailed log analysis

  • Packet analysis

  • Cloud infrastructure

  • Interest in geo-political relationships with Cyber Security

  • Operational Technology

Key attributes

Essential
  • A passion for Cyber Security

  • Analytical

  • Calm under pressure

  • Communication at all levels of seniority

  • Technically driven

Desirable
  • Confidence to present and speak in public

  • Confidence to engage with the Cyber community via forums and industry events

  • Interest in offensive Cyber security behaviours and motivations

  • Interest in human behaviour and Social Engineering 

Experience & Attainments

Essential
  • SOC analyst or cyber advisory roles

  • SOC Management experience or evidence to suggest you are capable of performing to this level

Desirable
  • Industry recognised Cyber accreditation, such as CompTIA

  • Cyber, IT or coding related degree