Hybrid Senior Cyber Defence Operations Analyst

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About the role

  • Senior Cyber Defence Operations Analyst maintaining and improving operational security processes for Insight Investment. Leading incident response, vulnerability management, and threat hunting activities.

Responsibilities

  • Lead, investigate, record and respond to SIEM alerts, determine scope and severity of incidents, and coordinate containment and remediation efforts.
  • Define, implement and continuously improve operational security processes and runbooks to align with compliance standards and evolving threats.
  • Assist with integrating and configuring security tooling, ensuring effective data ingestion, enrichment and alerting across the environment.
  • Lead threat hunting activities to proactively identify suspicious behaviour and improve detection coverage.
  • Deliver effective vulnerability management: analyse scanning outputs, coordinate with technology teams and ensure timely notification and remediation tracking.
  • Participate in the out-of-hours, on-call rotation, supporting incident response efforts during non-core hours.
  • Enforce security processes and requirements across the business.

Requirements

  • Previous ownership of the incident response, vulnerability management or SIEM monitoring solution processes and procedures.
  • Knowledge of SIEM tooling, designing and implementing use cases & documenting KBAs.
  • Strong knowledge of KQL.
  • Proven experience in incident response and handling.
  • Experience contributing to cybersecurity operations in a professional or structured environment.
  • Demonstrated commitment to continuous self-study.
  • Experience working with an MSSP.
  • Technical knowledge of access management and security controls.
  • Strong collaboration skills with the ability to work across teams and stakeholders.
  • A strong desire to drive security innovation across the firm.
  • Relevant technical cyber security certifications are desirable.
  • Knowledge on task automation/scripting would be hugely beneficial.
  • Experience with Microsoft suite (Defender/Azure), query-based SIEM (e.g. Sentinel, Splunk) and orchestration platforms.
  • Experience in financial services or other highly regulated environments.
  • Prior involvement in threat hunting activities.

Job title

Senior Cyber Defence Operations Analyst

Job type

Experience level

Senior

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

No Education Requirement

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