Security Incident Analyst

Security Incident Analyst - Contract - Berkshire

A leading mobile telecoms company is searching for a Security Incident Analyst to join their team in Berkshire on a contract basis.

Role:

Working within the Risk and Security Team, you will help to develop and shape operational security against a backdrop of significant change in security capabilities.

You will be reviewing incidents alongside Incident Management to determine if the issue affects confidentiality or integrity of the systems.

• Continuous monitoring of security tooling.
• Performing regular and ad-hoc vulnerability assessment.
• Reporting on vulnerabilities to the PVG via the alert systems.
• Conducting spot checks on logs on various systems.
• Building, understanding and documenting logging for systems.
• Developing centralised logging, reporting and intelligence platforms.
• Collecting external intelligence information from wide ranging sources, translated into applicable format and disseminated accordingly.

Skills and Experience Required:

• Experience reviewing and analysing security events from various monitoring and logging sources.
• Knowledge and experience with packet analysis.
• Scripting knowledge using BASH, Python, Perl and Ruby.
• Experience performing security event and incident detection and handling in an operational environment such as SOC, CSIRT, CERT, etc.
• Experience reviewing and analysing Security Events from various monitoring and logging sources.
• Experience in web site and web application security assessment or penetration testing.
• Previous experience working as a part of an IT Security team or in Incident Response.
• An active knowledge of current trends in computer security, software/hardware vulnerabilities.
• An active interest in current security research.
• Ability to work as part of a CERT Team which may require rotational weekday/weekend on-call coverage.
• Ability to work independently and with minimal supervision.
• Ability to understand and implement technical vulnerability corrections.
• Experience of malware analysis.
• Knowledge of multiple operating systems including Windows, Linux, Solaris.
• Skills in Host and Network Forensics.
• Robust networking knowledge including TCP/IP, MPLS, OSPF, BGP.

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