Cyber Security Analyst

Company Description

We’re Together – the market leading property finance experts with an entrepreneurial spirit. Based in Cheadle, South Manchester, we’ve been established since in 1974 and have built a team of over 750 colleagues, who are passionate about supporting individuals and businesses achieve their property ambitions by making finance work for them.

We pride ourselves on our common-sense approach to lending and offer a range of mortgage and secured loan products to individuals and businesses who are typically underserved by mainstream lenders. Our customers are central to everything we do and we work hard to support them to turn challenges into opportunities which make our customers' property ambitions a reality.

We’re looking for great people from all backgrounds and experiences who love working together and putting our customers at the heart of everything we do – and that starts with our brilliantly different team of people.

Job Description

As a Cyber Security Analyst, you will have a detailed understanding of evolving threat trends and the technical ability to detect, analyse and respond to threats to our organisation, using a range of next generation security tooling.

As a Cyber Security Analyst, we are looking for someone to:

• Act as first responder to security alerts.
• Perform regular threat hunting across the organisation.
• Continually develop, tune and refine SIEM alerts and user, endpoint and network behavioural models to improve threat detection.
• Create and maintain security dashboards, reports and metrics.
• Perform root cause analysis of security incidents and participate in post-incident reviews to provide practical recommendations for improving the organisation’s threat detection and incident response capabilities and overall security posture.
• Perform malware analysis and digital forensics where appropriate.
• Identify, assess and track infrastructure and software vulnerabilities and escalate to the appropriate teams for remediation.
• Identify opportunities for process automation and standardise threat detection and remediation procedures to facilitate SOAR implementation.
• Provide recommendations to the cyber security engineers for security control improvements.
• Develop scripts or tools to improve common activity efficiency.
• Ensure skills and knowledge are maintained through attending conferences, training courses, certification, ingesting security research and threat reports and practising in lab environments.
• Share knowledge with and cross-train other members of the cyber security team.

Qualifications

Essential

• Relevant certifications such as CISSP, Security+, CySA+, GIAC etc.
• Thorough understanding of adversarial tactics, techniques and procedures.
• The ability to contextualise, categorise and prioritise security events, incidents and alerts.
• Experience of threat hunting, intrusion detection, incident response, packet capture analysis and malware analysis.
• Knowledge of infrastructure, cloud, virtualisation and network concepts and technologies, particularly in a Microsoft-centric environment.
• Strong attention to detail with an analytical mindset in order to spot and investigate anomalous behaviour.
• Experience with security tool sets (SIEM, EDR, NDR etc.)
• Demonstrable passion and enthusiasm for security, including the ability to keep current with the latest threats, technologies and trends.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to communicate technical security issues to both non-security and non-technical stakeholders.
• The ability to work closely and collaboratively with Cyber Security, IT and other teams as well as independently.

Desirable

• Experience working within a regulated environment
• Experience following change management and similar ITIL best practice

Additional Information

Benefits working at Together

• 26 days holiday, and a day off for your birthday (increasing with service to 30 days), plus bank holidays
• Buy & sell holidays
• Discretionary annual bonus
• Matched pension contribution
• Life assurance
• Critical illness cover
• Health cash plan
• Private medical insurance
• Free access to company holiday homes
• Travel season ticket loans
• Ride to work scheme
• Free local gym access
• Local bar / restaurant discounts

Together Money embraces diversity and inclusion, and are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. Not only do we welcome difference – we celebrate it, support it and really value our colleagues for who they are. We are committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives and skills.

We care that you have a great experience with us at Together, if you need us to make any reasonable adjustments to make your experience easier, please let us know and we’ll do all we can.

Please note that all successful applicants will undergo relevant employment reference, financial and criminal record checks.