Junior Cyber Security Analyst – Exciting and complex secure customer site!
Location: Gloucestershire
Package:  £20K to £30K Dependant on experience + 25 days annual leave + 3% Flex Fund + Life Assurance + Pension 

A very exciting opportunity for Junior Cyber Security Analysts to join us and in return we’ll give you an amazing career with growth and learning opportunities. Come and work for one of the best kept secrets in I.T!

The company

Sopra Steria, European leader in digital transformation, provides one of the most comprehensive portfolios of end-to-end service offerings in the market: Consulting, Systems Integration, Software Development and Business Process Services. Sopra Steria is trusted by leading private and public organisations to deliver successful transformation programmes that address their most complex and critical business challenges.

Sopra Steria’s Aerospace, Defence and Security (ADS) business unit designs, develops and deploys digital solutions that bring clients enduring business value across the UK’s public and private sectors. In ADS we foster a culture in which employees feel valued and supported, delivering exceptional rates of customer satisfaction in the UK’s most complex safety- and security-critical markets

The day job

This is a fantastic opportunity to join our Cyber Security IT team and monitor our customer’s computer networks for security issues, install security software, and trace, record and assess any security vulnerabilities, issues or breaches you may detect.  You should possess strong written communication and interpersonal skills, along with a natural curiosity and a desire to explore new approaches.  An interest in cyber security and information technology is essential.  This is a junior role and both technical and personal development training will be provided. However, it does require the candidate to have an inherent technical understanding of Cloud technologies and computer systems.  Awareness of Agile delivery methods and information security is also highly desirable.

We will consider entry-level candidates with IT skills, Graduates with Cyber Security as part of their degree or junior Cyber Security Analysts
This is one of our most prestigious defence secure customer sites; you will make a real difference. 

Please note, you do need to be eligible for and prepared to go through Advanced Security Clearance for this role

Key Responsibilities

• ​Monitoring of computer networks for security issues using state of the art tools.
• Assist in the Investigation of security breaches and other cyber security incidents.
• Document security breaches.
• Work with security team to perform tests and identify potential network vulnerabilities.
• Assist with assessing and proposing resolutions to any detected vulnerabilities to maintain the systems integrity.
• Keep up to date with Cyber security trends and innovations.

Ideally you'll know

• Computer networks and penetration testing techniques.
• Understanding of firewalls, proxies, SIEM, antivirus, and IDPS concepts.
• Ability to identify and mitigate network vulnerabilities and explain how to avoid them.
• Patch management with the ability to deploy patches
• SC security clearance and the ability to obtain DV security clearance.

Reasons why you should apply to us

• We’re big – really big. With that comes career growth opportunities - we offer excellent training, you’ll join a company where development and progression is actively encouraged and not just something we talk about
• We have an enviable client list – we work with some of the biggest names out there
• We ensure our working environment is supportive and collaborative, everyone has a voice and all opinions count
• Our goal is to disrupt the market, not just follow the status quo
• Sustainability is really important to us, in fact we are within the top 1% of companies worldwide tackling climate change and managing our emissions