Summary: The Cabinet Office is seeking a Cyber Security Analyst for a 6-month hybrid contract in London, focusing on securing digital and information assets. The role involves triaging cyber security alerts, supporting incident response, and enhancing investigation processes. Candidates must have SC Clearance and experience with security tools for incident detection and response. The position emphasizes collaboration within the Cyber Defence team to strengthen overall capabilities.

Key Responsibilities:

• Triage and investigate cyber security alerts and user reports, analysing systems, files, network traffic, and cloud environments.
• Support the technical response to cyber incidents by identifying and implementing containment, eradication, and recovery measures.
• Coordinate incident handling and contribute to post-incident reviews to capture lessons learned and actions required.
• Drive continual improvement by identifying opportunities and supporting enhancements to incident investigation and response processes, tools, and workflows.
• Collaborate with Cyber Defence functions to strengthen the broader team's capabilities and contribute to internal documentation.
• Act as an escalation point and provide coaching and mentoring to apprentice security analysts.

Key Skills:

• SC Clearance is essential.
• Experience investigating and responding to cyber incidents with hands-on use of security tools such as EDR and SIEM.
• Proficient with SIEM tools, ideally Splunk or Microsoft Sentinel.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with an understanding of tools, techniques, and procedures used by threat actors.
• Desirable: Experience with Splunk, Agile environments, and cloud environments such as AWS.

Salary (Rate): undetermined

City: London

Country: UK

Working Arrangements: hybrid

IR35 Status: inside IR35

Seniority Level: undetermined

Industry: IT