Cyber Security Analyst

Join us as a Cyber Security Analyst

We’ll look to you to provide an end-to-end security response, including triage, response, escalation, and coordination of events and incidents

You’ll undertake a proactive role to anticipate and identify security events, incidents and trends that could adversely impact the bank, our customers, colleagues or assets

Joining a collaborative team, you’ll be able to build and maintain a wide network of stakeholders of varying seniority

You’ll work from the Edinburgh office 5 days per week

What you’ll do

As a Cyber Security Analyst, you’ll assess, triage and respond proactively and effectively to security related threats, incidents, requests and events to defend assets, information, and systems from unauthorised access, use, disclosure, disruption, modification, perusal, inspection, recording or destruction.

You’ll be collaborating with internal and external colleagues, specialists and stakeholders to make sure activities relating to incident response, user access, alert monitoring, root cause analysis and scenario planning are completed in line with standard operating procedures and to a high standard.

You’ll also be:

Carrying out and contributing to root cause analysis on security incidents and events, and conducting training and scenario planning to prepare for and anticipate future events

Providing assurance of security posture through monitoring security system status

Monitoring security alerting and analysis service within the function

Giving advice during an incident response and any subsequent reviews

Identifying security incidents while helping to handle them in a timely manner, in accordance with security best practice

The skills you’ll need

We’re looking for someone with cyber security incident and response experience, along with good knowledge of multiple of security technologies, mitigation techniques and a comprehensive understanding of network security & protocols.

You’ll also demonstrate:

Knowledge of threat monitoring tools and cloud security

Knowledge of threat detection and analysis techniques

Problem solving and an attention to detail