Position Overview & Specifications
Job Title: Junior Security Operations Centre Analyst
Location: Flexible, UK – Hybrid
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF50943
At Babcock we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together, and if you join us, you can play your part as a Junior Security Operations Centre Analyst.
The role
As a Junior Security Operations Centre Analyst, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. You will identify, notify, and respond to security threats, carry out basic network and endpoint forensic triage, and work with various resolver groups to ensure the timely mitigation of security incidents.
Day to day, you’ll analyse and investigate security events from various sources
- Escalating confirmed security incidents to senior analysts
- Update tickets, write incident reports, and document actions for false positive reduction
- Post incident review for ‘lessons learned’. This includes identifying the requirement for updating tools, processes and plans for incident response and increasing the effectiveness of detection systems as well working with other resolver groups to ensure similar attacks won’t succeed in the future
- Identifying log sources and examining system logs, which should record sufficient details about the normal activities of the system to allow a history of events to be reconstructed, making use of appropriate basic network and client forensic techniques and technologies
Essential experience of the Junior Security Operations Centre Analyst,
- A passion for information and cyber security and a keen interest in IT
- Excellent attention to detail, analytical skills and an ability to analyse complex technical information in order to identify patterns and trends
- A curious mindset and the desire and ability to determine root cause
- Verbal communication skills, including presentation skills, with an ability to communicate with a range of technical and non-technical team members and other relevant individuals
- Written communication skills & the ability to write technical reports
This is a hybrid, flexible role based in the UK with adhoc on-site visits and training at the Portsmouth site.
The successful candidate must be able to achieve BPSS/SC (must be British Nationals) security clearance level for this role.
Our Benefits
- Generous holiday allowance
- Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
- Employee share scheme
- Employee shopping savings portal
- Payment of Professional Fees
- Reservists in the armed forces receive ten days special paid leave
- Holiday Trading is a benefit that allows the majority of employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement
- ‘Be Kind Day’ enables employees to take one working day's paid leave a year (or equivalent hours) to undertake volunteering work with their chosen organisation or registered charity
For the full extensive Benefits package please visit our Careers pages
Babcock International
For over a century Babcock International have helped to defend nations, protect communities and build a better world. To continue, we must adapt, advance and be a sustainable business with a shared goal.
If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages, please let us know. We’re committed to building an inclusive culture where everyone’s free to thrive. We are happy to talk about flexible working - please ask about alternative patterns of work at interview.
Closing date: 24/05/2023
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