The Cyber Defence team delivers cyber threat intelligence, threat detection, incident response and vulnerability management capabilities for the Cabinet Office and is responsible for defending both internal IT infrastructure and citizen-facing services.

As a cyber security analyst, you’ll take a leading role in building and delivering these core capabilities, focusing on incident response.

As a Cyber Security Analyst your main responsibilities would be:

• Coordinate the day-to-day triage, investigation and response to incidents by first- and second-line security analysts, including acting as a point of escalation, providing direction and support, reviewing outputs, and managing duty and on-call rotas.
• Where necessary, lead (or otherwise contribute to) the investigation of alerts and coordinate the response to cyber incidents.
• Review previous cyber incidents to identify lessons and actions.
• Identify and deliver opportunities for continual improvement of the Cabinet Office’s cyber incident response capability.
• Work closely alongside other Cyber Defence functions, supporting the continual improvement of wider capabilities.
• Develop and update internal plans, playbooks and knowledge base articles.
• Provide coaching and mentoring to other analysts.

Essential:

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  An active SC Clearance is essential for this role.
• Experience investigating and responding to cyber incidents.
• Experience of using security tools (e.g., EDR, SIEM) to support the investigation and response to cyber incidents.
• Experience of managing and coordinating the response to cyber incidents.
• Experience coaching and mentoring junior staff.
• In-depth understanding of the tools, techniques and procedures used by threat actors.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

Desirable:

• Experience with Splunk.
• Experience working in an Agile environment.
• Experience with cloud environments such as AWS.

"In applying for this role you acknowledge the following; this role falls in scope of the Off Payroll Working in the Public Sector legislation. Any rates of payment quoted will reflect the gross rate per day for the assignment, and will be subject to appropriate taxes and statutory costs. As such the payment to the intermediary and your income resulting from this contract will be different."

Please be aware that this role can only be worked within the UK and not Overseas.