Senior Security Operations Specialist

Senior Security Operations Specialist

Swindon/Wiltshire/South West/United Kingdom

Salary range GBP 40,000/GBP 52,000

Requirements:

You will enjoy learning, be able pick up new skills quickly and will ideally have a valid security qualification.

You will demonstrate a high level of initiative and strong problem/solving skills whilst investigating threats and helping to develop reports and alerts to continually improve the monitoring of new security threats in an ever/changing environment.

You will get involved in all aspects of the teams security activities and so a good appreciation of general security topics and terminology will be important/examples being IDS, IPS, DDoS, malware and MitM attacks.

Desirable:

Have prior knowledge of TCP/IP Networking and Wintel server environments.

As this role will be specifically focused on Security Event Management/Security Operations Centre activity, experience in this area with Splunk Enterprise Security will be an advantage.

In addition to the above, you will need to demonstrate a high level of initiative and strong problem/solving skills whilst investigating threats and helping to develop reports and alerts to continually improve the monitoring of new security threats in an ever/changing environment.

Responsibilities:

As a Senior Security Operations Centre Specialist, you will be:

Leading a team of junior staff, providing mentoring and a route for technical escalation.

Responsible for working with our SIEM partner, responding to alerts raised.

Facilitating the definition of Security Monitoring Use/cases.

Investigating suspicious and anomalous activity, reaching conclusions and making recommendations for remediation and future monitoring.

Technical of Security Monitoring Use/cases into Splunk Enterprise Security.

IDS/IPS Policy Tuning to ensure the policy has an optimal configuration for both detection and performance.

Packet filtering Firewall rule management.

Responsible for the creation and maintenance of internal reports to detect and investigate IT security threats.

Raising incidents on the back of alert analysis and also providing a source of technical expertise for on/going investigations.

Support of the Splunk Enterprise Security system.

You will work closely with suppliers to build understanding of the detailed working of their products and services across the company.

To apply for this position please contact Marc

Senior Security Operations Specialist

Swindon/Wiltshire/South West/United Kingdom

Salary range GBP 40,000/GBP 52,000