Job description
Security Analyst
SIEM, IPS, ADS, AV
Southampton
£40,000 - £45,000
Operational Security Analyst required to join my client, a leading Software House in Southampton. You will be responsible for Operational Security, Security Incident Management and Compliance.
- Operational security
- Managing and responding to events from SIEM appliance, IPS etc
- Maintain the security patching process, ensuring systems receive the appropriate updates on time and with minimal system impact
- Maintaining and reviewing Hardening Standards (CIS)
- Reviewing changes to the security landscape
- Maintaining the anti-virus and anti-malware tools
- Developing and improving security operation procedures
- Support third party penetration testing and audits
- Security Incident Management
- Ensuring incidents are responded in SLA and coordinated with appropriate parties
- Working with the security council around service improvement
- Responding to threats and keeping updated with threat intelligence
- Compliance
- Ensure key milestones as part of a security calendar are met including vulnerability and wireless scans, changes to standards, external events / vulnerabilities, IPS, security reviews, user account audits, user awareness and data protection
- Ensuring best practices and policies are adhered to including system peer reviews
- Supporting compliance and governance audit processes and evidence collation
- Keeping up to date with InfoSec events and activities
Essential Skills and Attributes Required:
- Minimum of 5 years' experience in an IT centric role with at least 2 years working in a security role
- Strong Microsoft Windows and experience
- Working experience of managing firewalls, SIEM, IPS, ADS, AV and patch deployment
- Good knowledge of network security
- Working within a security governance framework (PCI-DSS, ISO 27001)
- Experience of working with customer facing systems
Additional Skills Preferred:
- Experience working in a payment environment
- Audit support experience
- InfoSec Certification - for example CCNA Security, Security Plus
If you would like to apply send your CV to lesleymorgan@spectrumit.co.uk.