Contract Date: ASAP - December 2024

IR35'status:Outside IR35

Industry: Public Sector

Interview Process: 2 stage, MS Teams

Urgently required security operations centre professional to join an existing team of professionals to ensure ongoing improvement and maintenance of security for a government body.

Responsibilities

• Proactively hunting for threats and vulnerabilities in the business' environment

• Supporting as SMEs for the SOC team

• Providing peer reviews

• Interfacing with the wider business

• Ensuring Cyber Security Review (CSR) Compliant

• Using expert knowledge of Cybersecurity Frameworks and Standards

• Using legal and regulatory understanding to provide guidance to wider teams

• Personnel Management & in-house training

• Stakeholder engagement

• Risk Management

• Threat Analysis

• Use of vulnerability management tools

• Malware reverse engineering

• Detection rule engineering

• Incident & Crisis Management (Alert Triage)

Required

• Active SC Clearance

• Experienced working in a live SOC environment

• Working knowledge of various Operating Systems (Windows, Linux, OSX, IOS)

• Experienced with Purple Teaming

• Understanding of computer forensics

• Strong history with use of Firewalls and IDS/IPS devices

• Strong ability with SIEM (Security Information and Event Management) technologies

• History in networking, routing, and switching

• Knowledge of frameworks such as NIST, ISO 27001, MITRE ATT&CK and CIS.

• Familiarity with cybersecurity laws and regulations, eg GDPR, CCPA, or HIPAA

Please note: Any successful candidate MUST be pre-cleared and hold ACTIVE SC.

DO NOT APPLY IF YOU DO NOT HOLD THE REQUIRED SECURITY CLEARANCE