Cyber Security Analyst

Cyber Security Analyst (Inside IR35)

Contract Term: 31st March 2023 – possibility of extension

Contracting Authority: The Cabinet Office 

Location: Remote/Hybrid – London, Bristol, Manchester or Glasgow
The Cyber Defence team delivers cyber threat intelligence, threat detection, incident response and vulnerability management capabilities for the Cabinet Office and is responsible for defending both internal IT infrastructure and citizen-facing services. As a senior security analyst, you’ll take a leading role in building and delivering these core capabilities, focusing on incident response.

As a Cyber Security Analyst your main responsibilities would be: 
•    Coordinate the day-to-day triage, investigation and response to incidents by first- and second-line security analysts, including acting as a point of escalation, providing direction and support, reviewing outputs, and managing duty and on-call rotas.
•    Where necessary, lead (or otherwise contribute to) the investigation of alerts and coordinate the response to cyber incidents.
•    Review previous cyber incidents to identify lessons and actions.
•    Identify and deliver opportunities for continual improvement of the Cabinet Office’s cyber incident response capability.
•    Work closely alongside other Cyber Defence functions, supporting the continual improvement of wider capabilities.
•    Develop and update internal plans, playbooks and knowledge base articles.
•    Provide coaching and mentoring to security analysts.

You’ll have relevant experience in:
•    Active SC Clearance.
•    Significant experience investigating and responding to cyber incidents.
•    Using security tools (e.g., EDR, SIEM) to support the investigation and response to cyber incidents.
•    Managing and coordinating the response to cyber incidents.
•    Experience coaching and mentoring junior staff.
•    In-depth understanding of the tools, techniques and procedures used by threat actors. 
•    Excellent analytical and problem solving skills.
•    Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

It’s desirable, but not essential, that you have:
•    Experience with Splunk.
•    Experience working in an Agile environment.
•    Experience with cloud environments such as AWS.

If this Cyber Security Analyst role sounds like something that you would be interested in, please click the link to apply or get in touch with karl.robinson@publicsectorresourcing.co.uk 

In applying for this role, you acknowledge the following “this role falls in scope of the Off Payroll Working in the Public Sector legislation. Any rates of payment quoted will reflect the gross rate per day for the assignment and will be subject to appropriate taxes and statutory costs. As such the payment to the intermediary and your income resulting from this contract will be different.

Please be aware that this role can only be worked within the UK and not Overseas.