Job Description

IT Security Analyst - Birmingham

Job Purpose:

The key purpose of this role is to implement and maintain robust security controls to mature/improve our security capabilities within the IT Security, Compliance, and Identity function.

This role ensures the protection of our assets, systems, and data from internal and external threats, whilst driving continuous improvement in security controls.

Skills:

• Security Operations - Providing expert guidance on live security incidents and helping conduct robust investigations to identify corrective actions and see them through to completion.
• Threat Intelligence - Provide guidance on proactive threat identification, analysis, and mitigation. Skilled in actionable intelligence, industry sources, and general awareness of threat landscape.
• Vulnerability Assessment - Identifying and classifying security vulnerabilities in networks, systems and applications and mitigating or eliminating their impact.
• Risk Management - Ability to identify IT security risks and the delivery of audit remediation activities.

Knowledge:

• Knowledge of IT Service Frameworks, methodologies, and best practice such as ITIL v4 and Agile
• Knowledge of day-to-day activities and best practice within a SOC
• Knowledge of technical security such as Firewalls, network security groups, and access controls

Type of Experience:

• Experience enhancing security processes, and evolving capabilities via continual service improvement.
• Experience of working on live cyber incidents and the remediation actions
• Experience of partnering with supplier teams for managed services delivery of improvements
• Experience across the full IT security spectrum (software, Servers, infrastructure, and networks)

Please send your CV or call Ahmed to discuss further.

We are an equal opportunities employment agency and welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of race, sex, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation, or age.

We champion differences in technology recruitment and work with clients who actively wish to diversify their talent force - ALL applicants are welcome to apply.

Contracts IT