Cyber Security Analyst

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Role: Cyber Security Analyst

Type: Permanent

Location: Andover

Clearance: SC/DV

CND are looking to bolster our internal team with another experienced Security Analyst. Your role will be to develop and provide monitoring services to both our customers and our internal networks. This role is focused on supporting one of our key customers on site.

You will be working with some of the sharpest minds in security, who have an enviable knowledge of the vast Cyber Security realm. At times, you may be working on site with our clients delivering protective monitoring or SOC capability development across our diverse range of customers.

All of this is great, however what sets us apart is our genuinely unique culture, focused on employee wellbeing and ensuring that our staff feel valued and able to bring their best selves to work each and every day.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Deliver excellent and thorough security analysis, taking SIEM output and actioning it accordingly

  • Push for improvements across the overall monitoring capability

  • Engage with a wide range of stakeholders, some technical and some not

  • Be flexible on location, some of our clients will need provision on site, however this is balanced to ensure your wellbeing

  • Suggest ideas for improving CND’s own internal security posture

  • Work on a 24/7 shift pattern

  • Be proactive with client requirements, offering guidance and input to highly technical challenges

    Essential Skills:

  • Experience working with a number of SIEM tools would be ideal, such as ArcSight, Splunk, LogRhythm or Alienvault

  • Understanding of how to get the best from available tooling

  • The ability to lean into other areas of your capability, whether this is engineering or GRC

  • Exposure to building capability and consulting with customers to change their environment

  • Ideally, a knowledge of process and procedure/playbook development in a SOC would help

  • Confident in being the point of escalation for junior staff, and taking an event thought an investigation into response.

    We are really proud of the company that CND is, with a family first ethos and a real hunger for technical excellence. We try to always do the right thing by our staff, clients and consultants ensuring that we operate is a purely ethical manner. If this sounds like a environment in which you would excel, please apply to start a conversation

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