Senior Cyber Security Analyst

Senior Cyber Security Analyst

Senior Cyber Security Analyst

Apply locations: Hybrid (Home/Cobalt Business Park)

Time type: Full time

Posted on: Posted Yesterday

Time left to apply: End Date: December 11, 2024 (11 days left to apply)

Job Requisition ID: JR107

Job Posting Title: Senior Cyber Security Analyst

Salary Band: £45,817 - £63,270
Grade: MP2

Job Description

About the Role:
The Senior Cyber Analyst performs an important responsibility to lead efforts in identifying, analysing, and mitigating cybersecurity threats. You will be expected to assess vulnerabilities, monitor networks for suspicious activity, and develop strategies to protect Group Information assets. Providing guidance on security best practices, overseeing incident response, and ensuring compliance with security regulations and policies.

As the Senior Cyber Analyst, you will work with the Technical Information Security Officer and Cyber Security Manager to support the delivery of highly effective technical standards, roadmaps in addition to providing strategic security capability direction and secure solutions, security principles, standards and contribute to the overarching Information / Cyber Security strategy.

About You:
You will have either a recognised Information Security / IT Qualification, be working towards a relevant certification (CISSP, CISM, CISMP, CISA, SANS, CEH, TOGAF) or have commensurate experience. Financial services experience is desirable.

It is essential that you have knowledge of Industry Standards: ISO 27001, PCI DSS, NIST 800, as well as experience working with Defender XDR, Threat intelligence, Microsoft Purview, SIEM and security monitoring, Azure Cloud, Network security (WAF, Firewalls, Network Segmentation), Vulnerability management, Identity and access management (Entra ID), mobile device management.

You will possess demonstratable experience working with Power BI, Zero Trust Principles and developing Cyber Security Strategy.

About Us:
The Cyber Security team spearheads the response to ensuring the response to the ever changing threat landscape is appropriate to protecting the Groups assets against cyber security attacks and ensuring we meet the regulatory and compliance expectations set by clients and as a part of a financial services regulatory framework. The team is responsible for ensuring that cyber security capabilities are in place, threat led, meet client and compliance expectations and are highly integrated, orchestrated and automated.

As an inclusive employer and member owned mutual, we aim to reflect the diverse communities we serve and encourage applications from candidates of all backgrounds. We believe everyone should feel valued, respected, and celebrated for who they are, we want colleagues to feel this is a place they belong. A place to be you.

What do you get in return?
As well as receiving a competitive annual salary based on above-market pay scales, our reward package includes:

• Hybrid working – typically 3 days’ homeworking and 2 days’ office based
• A 35-hour weekly contract - We are happy to talk flexible working and welcome discussions around how and when people work including part-time hours
• 30 days holiday each year plus bank holidays
• Bonus Scheme (paid annually) - On target 10%, up to 15% depending on performance
• Colleague mortgage scheme and access to our financial advisors
• Private medical insurance
• Pension scheme (up to 9% employers’ contribution)
• Life assurance (4x salary) and income protection
• Access to a range of wellbeing benefits, including Medicash scheme
• Electric car salary sacrifice scheme
• Cycle to Work scheme
• Above statutory family leave entitlement - 3 months full pay, 3 months half pay regardless of gender or route to parenthood
• An extra day’s holiday for your birthday
• The option to buy and sell holidays
• Two paid volunteering days each year
• A broad range of learning and development opportunities
• Access to a range of high street and online discounts
• Free onsite gym at Cobalt and access to a range of discounted/subsidised gym memberships nationwide
• A wide range of recognition initiatives to recognise and reward great performance

Recognising there’s no one-size-fits-all approach to recruitment, we’re committed to ensuring every candidate has the opportunity to showcase their full potential throughout the recruitment process. We strive to make our processes as accessible as possible, if there are any ways in which we can provide support or make adjustments, we would love to discuss this with you, you can contact your Recruiter for this vacancy at adam.curran@newcastle.co.uk

Company: Newcastle Building Society