Associate Security Analyst

Company Description

We're ASOS. We blend our flair for fashion with our love of cutting- edge technology, but more importantly were interested in how we can bring the best out of you.

We exist to give people the confidence to be whoever they want to be, and that goes for our people too. At ASOS, you're free to be your true self without judgment, and channel your creativity into a platform used by millions.

Job Description

This role will perform regular proactive defence of ASOS’s digital and technology solutions against cyber security threats. This role will report to the Security Operations Manager.

Key responsibilities:
Responsibilities include, although are not limited to:

•    Monitor user activity, network events, and signals from security tools to identify events that merit attention acting as a 1st line of defence. 
•    Effectively Escalate all real security incidents to Tier 2 Analysts.
•    Provide proactive defence of ASOS’s digital and technology solutions against cyber security threats.
•    Provide feedback and insight in the continuous improvement programme to support the fine tuning of our technical solutions. 
•    Keep up to date with the latest Cyber Security Trends and Updates.
•    Monitor a range of security systems, resolving and documenting findings accurately.
•    Communicate effectively with key stakeholders and peers. 

Qualifications

•    Experience working within a Security Operations Centre. 
•    Excellent problem-solving skills – evidence of demonstrating innovative and methodical thinking. 
•    Experience with Microsoft’s security stack and conducting investigations into possible threats, documenting all discovered IOCs.
•    Strong communication skills.
•    Building automation playbooks to help build efficiency within the SOC.
•    Excellent organisational skills to plan and manage multiple projects across the business 
•    Proven ability to multi-task conflicting priorities. 
•    Attention to detail, analytical and able to succinctly describe to non-cyber stakeholders the key aspects of best security practice.
•    Microsoft Azure exams specially; AZ-103, AZ-300, AZ-301, AZ-500, AZ-900.
•    Experience with Azure Sentinel and other Microsoft security technology.

Additional Information

Responsibilities include, although are not limited to:

• Support the Security Operations Centre, on an operational and strategic level. Task manage and lead shifts, supporting tier 1 analysts on your shift.
• Responsible for the performance and output of the Associate Security Analysts, using productivity and quality assurance data and goals set by the Security Operations Manager.   
• Take guidance from the Security Operations Management to ensure all alerts and tasks are monitored and escalated effectively. 
• Lead shifts, supporting tier 1 analysts on task management.
• Use SME knowledge to execute security monitoring and threat hunting across all of the department's technology estate to seek out areas of weakness, potential problems, and active threats.
• Monitor and maintain awareness of real-world cyber security threats and engage in the innovation of new analytic methods for detecting threats.
• Support in the development of appropriate reporting methods of new security tools to evaluate their effectiveness of mitigating ASOS’ overall Cyber Security Risk.

We want our people to be whoever they want to be. That’s why we’re committed to creating a truly inclusive culture at ASOS, but how we're doing it?

Through our Fashion with Integrity strategy we are driving diversity, equity and inclusion across every aspect of ASOS and ensuring every ASOSer can be their authentic self at work.  We want our people to be whoever they want to be, because we believe people who bring their best selves to work, do their best work.  

We’re proud members of Inclusive Companies, are Disability Confident Committed and have signed the Business in the Community Race at Work Charter. We’ve also recently been placed 8th  in the Inclusive Top 50 Companies Employer List too.

There are safe space employee networks and we host a monthly DEI events series to help support and celebrate all of our people. We are constantly listening to our people, evolving, changing and taking a flexible approach to how we make ASOS truly inclusive.