Senior Cyber Security Analyst

Here’s what you’ll be doing:

When you join Simply Business, you’ll protect us from threat actors who attempt to evade our cyber defences. This is a hands-on technical position where you’ll play an important role in increasing the maturity of our Security Operations Centre (SOC).

Additionally, you’ll need a strong drive and willingness to learn and grow. You’ll be in a rapidly evolving environment, which will bring new challenges and opportunities for growth on a regular basis. You’ll be empowered to develop and explore your unique passion for cyber security operations.

In return we offer an extremely agile working environment with some of the latest technologies such as SASE, AI and with lots of automation. One of our main values is empowerment, and we offer the ability for people to drive significant change and really make a difference. Simply Business is a cloud-native company which is leading the way with its offerings in the InsureTech market.

You will be reporting into Laura the Security Operations Lead, and working alongside an award winning team of 5 other analysts, a threat intelligence lead and 2 engineers with a diverse set of technical skills and backgrounds within cyber security.

As a Senior Cyber Security Analyst you will:

• Be the face of InfoSec within the business. You’ll address security issues as an enabler, not a blocker, by working proactively with all teams and baking security into our tech.
• Articulate the ‘why’ behind what we do to technical and non-technical colleagues.
• Contribute in establishing a security culture throughout the business and enjoy autonomy and flexibility to experiment on ideas that could help improve InfoSec as a whole.

We’re looking for someone who is:

• Proactive in identifying and responding to potential security incidents within Simply Business’ estate, following and developing playbooks and contributing your expert opinion.
• Leading process improvements, delivering increased capability to detect threats and respond appropriately.
• Supporting the SOC Lead with technical leadership, supporting, training and mentoring analysts within the team.
• Developing & improving our detect and respond capabilities, using the latest orchestration and automation tooling.
• An SME in one of the following areas: Security Incident Response, EDR e.g. Carbon Black, Crowdstrike; SIEM e.g. Splunk, Elastic; Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) e.g. Zscaler, Netskope; Vulnerability Management e.g. Rapid7, Nessus; Network Detection and Response e.g. Darktrace, Cisco SNA.
• Understanding of the Cyber Attack Lifecycle or common attack types (e.g. Insider Threat, Phishing, DDoS), and their associated methods.

(We know it’s tough, but please try to avoid the confidence gap. You don’t have to match all the bullet points above to be considered for this role.)

Ready to join us and help us elevate our security practices? Apply today.

About Simply Business

We insure small businesses and enable big dreams – not just for our customers, but for our people and communities too. With over 1,000,000 active insurance policies, we protect builders, bakers, landlords and more than 1,200 other trades.

We’re a technology company as well as one that sells insurance. That means we build, we fail, we learn and we improve. We’re a B Corp too, which recognises our strong track record of having a positive impact on people, society and the environment.

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What are the benefits?

• Work-life balance – we support every team member in maintaining a manageable workload.

• Hybrid working – you have the flexibility to work remotely and connect with your colleagues in one of our hubs.

• Mental health and wellbeing – we give you access to tools and counselling to support your mental health.

• Flexible parental leave – we understand how important this time is, that’s why we offer six months full pay to the primary caregiver and four weeks full pay if you’re the secondary caregiver.

• Paid sabbatical – as a thank you to our long-serving employees, we offer a two-week sabbatical when you’ve been here for five years. And four weeks off for those who’ve been with us for 10, 15, and 20 years.

• Life event leave – you can get an extra day’s leave every two years for those big moments in your life like moving house, welcoming a new pet, or your birthday.

• A dedicated learning platform – our platform helps you develop on your personal and professional goals, including management and leadership programmes.

We also make sure you’re compensated fairly

• Competitive salary – we aim to offer a fair salary based on your experience and the market we’re in from day one.

• Annual bonus – the potential to earn a bonus based on business performance.

• Pension – we’ll match what you put into your pension up to five per cent.

• Private medical insurance – you’ll get medical insurance through BUPA that covers any pre-existing medical conditions as a core benefit.

• Health cash plan – we reimburse your everyday medical expenses.

• Holiday entitlement – 25 days leave, plus bank holidays (and you can also use your flexible benefits to get up to five more days).

• Life assurance – pass on a tax-free sum that’s four times your basic salary (core benefit). With the option to increase it to ten times through our flexible benefit scheme.

• Salary sacrifice car scheme – option to buy a brand new, fully insured and maintained car for a convenient fixed monthly amount taken from your gross salary (after 6 months service).

• Flexible benefits scheme – everyone gets an allocated allowance to use each year on things like critical illness cover, dental insurance, travel insurance, a gym membership, and up to five days extra holiday.

Ready to join us and drive our success as a high-performing team? Apply today.