Security Analyst

Company Description

Helping over ten million people around the world manage their savings, retirement plans and life insurance requires a lot of people behind-the-scenes.  It’s up to us in L&G Group functions – which includes our tech and digital teams, Group Finance, HR, Risk and Corporate Comms to provide the essential support services that all areas of the business need, here in the UK and overseas. Simply put, we enable everyone at Legal & General to do what they do best. That means we’re helping to improve our customers’ lives, and contributing to the success of the business every day.

Job Description

We are looking for a Security Analyst to join our team in London!

You'll be supporting the management of Security Operations, Security Incidents and Infrastructure Security for Legal & General.  Using the latest threat intelligence to inform daily activities and proactive threat hunts to detect and respond to threat actors, you'll also work alongside other security analysts and security professionals with the aim of making L&G a harder cyber target.  

This is the ideal role for a Security Analyst looking for their next career move - please read on for more information!

What you'll be doing

• Providing technical security expertise in response to security incidents occurring within L&G on a 24x7 basis
• Working in conjunction with the Security Operations Centre (SOC) service provider to provide Level 3 security event monitoring across Legal & General (e.g. collating security events gathered across sources, triaging events and managing security events as required to help ensure these are responded to in a timely and effective manner)
• Configuring security tools to design and implement use cases to ensure L&G has a mature level of detection and response
• Providing a Level 3 response (inputting technical and business expertise) for various security events and incidents such as intrusion, malware infections, network breaches and denial of service attacks to help ensure these are managed in a timely and effective manner
• Assisting in any required management information creation and collation such as dashboards for leadership and application owners to help ensure that risk events and changes in trends are easily detected and reported on

Qualifications

What we're looking for

• A working knowledge of tools used in detection and response such as XDR/EDR, Network Monitoring, SIEM
• An understanding of threat intelligence and how it can be used within Security Operations to build mature detection and response
• An awareness of new and emerging threats with an ability to build in detection capability around this knowledge
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with ability to exercise mature judgement
• Any certifications in infrastructure, networking or malware analysis would be beneficial
• If you have a passion for cyber security but don't have the commercial experience yet then we would still be interested in hearing from you!

Additional Information

When you commit to Legal & General, we’ll commit to you too. That means we’ll recognise and reward your hard work, your performance and your contribution.

If you join us, you’ll get access to some great benefits, including private medical insurance, at least 25 days holiday (excluding bank holidays), a generous pension scheme, life assurance, and Income Protection. You can participate in our electric car scheme, which offers employees the option to hire a brand new electric car through tax efficient salary sacrifice. We’re also proud to offer competitive family leave.

You’ll have the opportunity to participate in our annual, performance-related bonus plan and valuable share schemes. And then there are the many discounts we offer that you can take advantage of – both for our own products and at a range of high street stores and online offerings.

The brand with the brolly is choosing today to change tomorrow.

Since 1836, we’ve grown to become one of the world's largest asset managers, homebuilders, pension providers and insurance brands. 

We’re all here to improve the lives of our customers, build a better society for the long term, and create value for our shareholders - helping to shape a better future for society and the planet.

We need people who share our ambitions, agility and entrepreneurial spirit to help us do it.

At L&G, you’ll find a balance that helps you be your best. Empowered by hybrid working, we’re supported by technology and workplaces that enable us to work effectively wherever we are. We come together in offices to collaborate and connect, and use time at home for individual, focused activities. And, when we achieve great things, we celebrate our success and reward strong performance.

Today, there’s over 10,000 of us, working towards our mission, with plenty of opportunities to grow your career as we grow L&G. Will you join us?

Great minds don’t have to think alike, so we welcome voices from all backgrounds. Bringing together people with different life experiences helps us build empathy with our customers and drive innovation.

We don’t just talk about it, we actively promote diversity and equitable opportunities for all. That means our employment decisions are made without regard to race, colour, religion, national or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability or protected veteran status. In fact, we embrace every dimension of diversity to reflect the customers and communities we serve.

We think it’s important to create an inclusive environment where we can all belong, contribute and drive progress, where you can develop and grow, and be empowered. We want you to use your voice to help us build a better tomorrow.

We all work differently, and have different needs, which is why. we’re always open to discussing flexible working arrangements. Likewise, we’re committed to finding reasonable accommodations for candidates with specific needs during our recruiting process.

So whoever you are, wherever you are, whatever your story, we'd love to hear from you.