Senior Cyber Analyst

Job Title: Senior Cyber Analyst

Location: Worcestershire

Term: 6 Months

Day Rate: £DOE (Inside IR35)

Brief

Senior Cyber Analyst needed for a multinational defence and security organisation based in Worcestershire who are looking to employ an experienced and well-rounded Senior Cyber Analyst for a 6-month contract based in Worcestershire.

What the role entails:

Some of the main duties of the Senior Cyber Analyst will include:

• Design and development of defend and respond strategies, tradecraft and playbooks.
• Definition of detection methodologies and frameworks, aligning with industry standards where appropriate
• Definition of hunting methodologies and approaches, to be used in the identification of cyber threat actors
• Tool and content configuration based on contextual and technical threat intelligence to improve detection and analysis.
• Support to cyber defend operations when required.
• Technical liaison between other service lines/capabilities, including threat hunting, incident response and incident investigation
• Senior Cyber Analyst - Operations (GG11/12 subject to experience)
• Able to take responsibility for
• Day to day incident triage and escalation, using contextual and technical threat intelligence
• Tool and content configuration based on contextual and technical threat intelligence to improve detection and analysis.
• Guiding, coaching and mentoring analysts who are providing the core SOC functions, including but not limited to, alert triage, incident escalation, content creation etc.
• Technical liaison between other service lines/capabilities, including threat hunting, incident response and incident investigation
• Contribute to design and development of defend and respond strategies, tradecraft and playbooks.
• Contribute to definition of hunting methodologies and approaches, to be used in the identification of cyber threat actors

What experience you need to be the successful Senior Cyber Analyst:

Essential:

• Experience demonstrating effective technical leadership in an operational cyber defend security environment
• Demonstrate courage of their convictions in decision making and progressing incidents/investigations. Listening to opinions, considering all opinions, and then making a decision and moving on
• Experience working in a CSOC environment in an analyst role
• Experience operating with a variety of SIEM, EDR, IPS, IDS, firewall and security gateway platforms & technologies
• Experience working in a commercial service management environment (ITIL Foundation desirable)
• Good understanding of computer and networking technology
• write detection content in LogR
• Tuning in EDR and LogR
• Reviewing incident tickets for escalation\feedback
• Running pre-defined threat-hunts
• Lead the SOC analysts and ensure they are prioritized.
• Help the SOC ingest CTI from CTI team

Desirable:

• Leverage a solid foundation of knowledge on the MITRE ATT&CK framework to understand actor TTPs and how to mitigate them, and keep up-to-date with changes and additions to the framework
• Knowledge of relevant frameworks such as GPG-13, and CIS 20
• Knowledge of relevant regulations and legislation such as ISO 27001, GDPR, and the Computer Misuse Act
• Relevant SANS/GIAC or similar qualifications
• CREST Registered Intrusion Analyst
• COMPTIA Network plus

This really is a fantastic opportunity for a Senior Cyber Analyst to progress their career. If you are interested, please apply as soon as possible as this position will be filled quickly so don't miss out!

**PLEASE NOTE***

Current Security Clearance (SC) is required to be considered for this vacancy

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