Essential

• Candidates must have Home Office SC clearance or SC cleared where the clearance can be transferred to the Home Office.
• Candidate must be British and non-dual national.
• Work 12 hour shifts as part of a rota for 24 X 7 CSOC Support, 4 days on day shift, 4 days off and 4 nights on night shift.

Technology and Process Experience

• Exposure to working on or within HMG classified systems or programs is a bonus and not a must.
• Already a CSOC Analyst or a Cyber Defence Analyst with experience of investigating Cyber Security incidents and supporting root cause analysis or can demonstrate transferable skills and acumen to learn and excel at it.
• Understanding of the Confidentiality, Integrity and Availability (CIA) triad.
• Understanding of current trends for malware, ransomware, Advanced Persistent Threats affecting Cloud Platforms and On Premise solutions.
• Proficient with the full suite of Microsoft Office products Word, Excel, Visio.
• Experience of working with the disciplines of a Change Controlled environment.
• Knowledge of Identification, Authentication, Authorisation, Auditing and Logging services.
• An understanding of the OSI 7 network layers.
• An understanding of the TCP/IP network layers.
• Exposure to working with NCSC, NIST, and Centre for Internet Security (CIS) best practice.
• An understanding of network and boundary protection controls for both Cloud and On Premise solutions including but not limited to Firewalls, Network Access Control Lists, Network Security Groups, DDoS Protection, VPN's, Mail Gateways, Web Proxies, Load Balancers including Web Application Firewalls, Intrusion Prevention System and Intrusion Detection Systems.
• Experience of using as many as possible of detective and preventative Cyber Security tools such as but not limited to Security Information Event Monitoring (SIEM), Security Orchestration and Automated Response (SOAR), End Point Protection (EPP), End Point Detection and Response (EDR), Web Application Firewall (WAF) and Firewalls
• An understanding of the implementation of technologies such as but not limited to Hardware Security Modules (HSM), USB Controls, Encryption, SSL, TLS, and SSH.
• Exposure to leading vendor products such as but not limited to Fortinet Firewalls, Cisco Firewalls, Palo Alto Firewalls, SPLUNK, Sophos End Point Protection, McAfee ePO, Symantec, Nessus, Rapid 7, AWS Guard Duty, Azure Security Centre, Azure Office 365 Security and Compliance Centre
• The ideal candidate will hold or be willing to gain CISSP, GMON, GCIH certification or equivalent and have an exposure to market leading public cloud technology.

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