Security Incident Analyst - Contract - Berkshire

Security Incident Analyst - Contract - Berkshire

A leading Telecommunications company is looking for a Security Incident Analyst to join their team on an initial 6 month basis. This is an excellent opportunity to work in a brand new role.

You will be sitting within the Risk and Security Team and will helping 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.

• Experience performing security event and incident detection and handling in an operational environment
• Experience reviewing and analysing security events from various monitoring and logging sources
• Knowledge and experience with packet analysis
• TCP/IP / MPLS / OSPF / BGP etc - strong networking knowledge
• Multiple OS - Windows, Linux, Solaris, UNIX
• Scripting knowledge using BASH, Python, Perl and Ruby

Your duties will include:

• Continuous monitoring of security tooling
• 'Light touch' penetration testing with open source tooling (e.g. Metasploit)
• 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

Please apply via this site in the first instance or send a CV with covering note to Fred.Cope@Projectpeople.com

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