Security Analyst

London, England, United Kingdom

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Smart Pension Ltd

Our mission is to transform retirement, savings and financial well-being, across all generations, around the world.

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Smart is a rapidly growing fintech company transforming the retirement industry for the better. Using our award-winning platform, we build digital products to help people plan for their financial future globally. We’ve gone from a small start-up to a global industry leader with over £2bn in assets under management.

At Smart, we're a diverse team spanning across four continents. We’ve grown to a team of over 600 talented people, all dedicated to creating the best experience for our customers and an inclusive workplace for our colleagues. Recently we made it onto Great Places to Work at No.22 and at No.6 for Best Workplaces in Tech 2021 for large companies!

Join us to transform retirement, savings and financial well-being, across all generations, around the world.

Responsibilities

Security:

  • Safeguards information system assets by detecting/identifying security problems, and addressing false positives or solving potential issues.
  • Escalates incidents to senior management where necessary, with short descriptions, and acts as a point of contact throughout the investigation.
  • Recommends and implements detection criteria, new patterns, new signatures, rules and tunes existing configuration.
  • Manages security incident responses, acts directly upon SIEM alerts and generates incident reports (Maintains and manages SIEM technologies) and works with our Security Operations Centre (SOC) Performs detailed analysis of the data captured by monitoring systems.
  • Undertakes forensic analysis for investigations, including writing reports and securing evidence.
  • Liaises with architects in relation to security issues and provides future recommendations.
  • Handles client security queries end to end and plans vulnerability remediation in a timely fashion.
  • Assist QA and Security Bug Fix Teams to verify clean and efficient code based on OWASP security best practices specifications.

Business Analyst:

  • Managing client relationships, organising, conducting and running workshops
  • To clearly define and document business requirements, thereby providing a strong foundation from which technical specifications can be derived.
  • Directly lead business analysis including the discovery of information and evidence and the identification of problems and opportunities. Ensuring that recommendations fit with strategic business objectives.
  • Actively manage senior stakeholders and create a compelling case for change, as well as using your own methods to identify the most suitable approach with regards to requirements capture and analysis.
  • Work closely with third party vendors/partners/internal stakeholders involved in the delivery of security initiatives.

Requirements

We know how challenging it can be to tick every box.

Here are a few skills that we feel would make you successful in the role, but please do not be put off from applying if you do not have every single one of them:

  • Strong knowledge of AWS fundamentals.
  • Cloud Access Management and Authentication.
  • Ability to handle multiple digital product development conflicts.
  • Strong knowledge of cyber threats, adversary activities and developing security orchestration, automation and response (SOAR) platforms.
  • Strong knowledge of security operation centres and incident response platforms.
  • Understanding of security standards such as ISO27001, SOC2, CIS, NIST.
  • Previous experience of conducting static code reviews.
  • Previous experience of working in an agile environment.
  • Exceptional stakeholder management and client-communication skills.

Benefits

We offer competitive salaries, great colleagues and excellent benefits, including:

  • 25 days holiday per year, plus bank holidays. One extra day holiday after two years and then every year up to 30 days holiday
  • Pension scheme using salary sacrifice, Smart will match your contributions up to 5% of your salary
  • £500 personal training budget every year to spend on courses or conferences or training materials
  • Health insurance with Equipsme, including Dental, Eyecare and EAP
  • Death in service with Unum (4xbase salary)
  • Access to PerkBox and Smart Rewards
  • Enhanced maternity and paternity (maternity – 6 months fully paid/paternity – 3 weeks fully paid)
  • Five-week sabbatical after five years of employment
  • Season ticket loans
  • Cycle2Work scheme
  • Free snacks, fruit and drinks

Smart is committed to crafting an inclusive work environment with a diverse workforce. You will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, disability or age.

Our Recruitment Data Policy is here. Please click on the link if you have any questions about how we store your data or to know your rights.

If you’d like to learn more about life at Smart, feel free to check out our Careers page and Glassdoor

* Salary range is an estimate based on our InfoSec / Cybersecurity Salary Index 💰

Tags: Agile Automation AWS Cloud FinTech Incident response ISO 27001 Monitoring NIST OWASP SIEM SOAR SOC 2

Perks/benefits: Career development Competitive pay Conferences Health care Insurance Paid sabbatical Parental leave Startup environment

Region: Europe
Country: United Kingdom
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Category: Analyst Jobs

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