Senior Information Security Analyst

Company Description

This role can be worked mostly remotely in the UK, with infrequent travel into one of our offices (Nottingham, London or Glasgow).

Who are Experian?

We are the world’s leading global information services company. During life’s big moments – from buying a home or a car, to sending a child to college, to growing a business by connecting with new customers – we empower consumers and our clients to manage their data with confidence. We help individuals to take financial control and access financial services, businesses to make smarter decisions and thrive, lenders to lend more responsibly, and organisations to prevent identity fraud and crime.

We have 20,000 people operating across 44 countries and every day we’re investing in new technologies, talented people, and innovation to help all our clients maximise every opportunity. We are listed on the London Stock Exchange (EXPN) and are a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index.

Our approach to flexible working

We care about work that works, whether that’s about where you work or adjusting your hours to fit better with your life. Our flexible working practices, including our hybrid working model where you can split your working time between the office and your home, support our belief that this balance brings long-lasting benefits for our business as well as ensuring that our people can balance successful careers with their commitments and interests outside of work. So that you can love where you work, please discuss what works for you with your recruiter during the hiring process.

Accepting you, for you.

We want you to feel accepted for who you are and to feel safe, valued and to help us build a culture of true belonging. Experian is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and we take affirmative action to create a more inclusive and equitable world of work. We are committed to equal employment opportunities regardless of age, disability, gender identity, marital status, race, ethnicity, faith or belief, sexual orientation, socioeconomic background, Veteran status or whether you’re pregnant or on family leave.

Job Description

Experian are looking for an experienced Senior Information Security Analyst to join our 1LOD Information Security team within Experian’s Consumer Information Services (CIS) business.

You will work closely with the Experian Consumer Information Services (CIS) Engineering, Product, and Operations teams and various second-line functions across the business (including Compliance and Global Security).

The team ensures that Experian CIS along with our services, products, people, and procedures are secure, reducing risk and compliant with relevant laws and regulations, internal policy, and best practice.

The role:

• Reviewing projects to ensure that Experian Information Security policies and controls are applied, new risks are addressed, and security architecture is appropriate.
• Ensuring that appropriate testing is undertaken to validate the effectiveness of controls.
• Working with delivery teams to ensure that applications are built secure from the ground up and move through Experian’s go-live procedure efficiently.
• Taking a proactive role in identifying new security risks, mitigations, and opportunities to strengthen Experian’s resilience to cyber-attacks and security incidents
• Contributing to the effective monitoring and management of Information Security metrics.
• Assisting with security incident management and response activities.
• General day-to-day support on managing and responding to security alerts from systems and end users.
• Performing daily, weekly, and monthly security checks, reconciliation and compliance checks and investigating exceptions.
• Supporting the deviation process and creating risk acceptance cases.
• Considering and challenging mitigation approvals.

Qualifications

• Three plus years’ experience within an enterprise environment.
• Exposure to enterprise Information Security standards including CIS Controls, NIST SP 800-53, ISO 27001, 27002 etc. Data Protection Act and the General Data Protection Regulation.
• Familiarity with the Azure and/or AWS Security Stack.
• Good understanding of security testing principles, including experience of vulnerability scanning, identifying, resolving, and reporting risks.
• Experience of formal document creation, such as the creation of reports or procedures.
• CompTIA Security+, CISSP, CISM or equivalent.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills.

Everyone has different experience, and so please don’t rule yourself out if you cannot ‘tick’ all of the qualities mentioned above. Talk to us about the experience that you do have.

Additional Information

Why choose us?

Our colleagues’ health and wellbeing are a top priority for us, that’s why our reward, benefits and wellbeing programmes are designed so you can come to work feeling your very best self. Our benefits focus on health, money, and lifestyle so you can tailor your benefits to your own personal needs. Whether it’s your physical and mental wellness, getting to work or preparing for the next big milestone in your life, we have a range of flexible options to have you covered! 

For this role in particular, you have the opportunity to work in a hybrid role, meaning that your working pattern is split between home working and office working each week. Alongside 25 days of annual leave, you are able to buy up to 8 extra days of holiday. We also offer the opportunity to buy shares in Experian which mature over 3 -5 years and can then be sold, an annual bonus, a generous pension contribution, dental insurance, bike to work scheme, access to discount codes for things like online shopping or cinema tickets, and much more!

To learn more about our culture and what it’s really like to work here, check out our interactive guide here: https://view.pagetiger.com/experianguideforcandidates/1

Could this be the role for you? Apply now to start your journey with Experian!

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