SC Cleared Cyber Security Analyst contract opportunity based in Worcestershire - hybrid working - up to £650 per day

Working inside of a large Defence organisation, you will play a key part in the design and development of defend and respond strategies as well as dealing with day to day incident triage and escalation.

Key responsibilities:
* Design and development of defend and respond strategies, tradecraft and playbooks.
* Definition of detection methodologies and frameworks, aligning with industry standards where appropriate
* Definition of hunting methodologies and approaches, to be used in the identification of cyber threat actors
* Tool and content configuration based on contextual and technical threat intelligence to improve detection and analysis.
* Support to cyber defend operations when required
* Day to day incident triage and escalation, using contextual and technical threat intelligence
* Tool and content configuration based on contextual and technical threat intelligence to improve detection and analysis.
* Guiding, coaching and mentoring analysts who are providing the core SOC functions, including but not limited to, alert triage, incident escalation, content creation etc.
* Technical liaison between other service lines/capabilities, including threat hunting, incident response and incident investigation
Experience required:
* Experience demonstrating effective technical leadership in an operational cyber defend security environment
* Demonstrate courage of their convictions in decision making and progressing incidents/investigations. Listening to opinions, considering all opinions, and then making a decision and moving on
* Experience working in a CSOC environment in an analyst role
* Experience operating with a variety of SIEM, EDR, IPS, IDS, firewall and security gateway platforms & technologies
* Experience working in a commercial service management environment (ITIL Foundation desirable)
* Good understanding of computer and networking technology
This position is to start ASAP and will pay between £500 - £650 per day Umbrella (inside IR35) depending on your level of experience. The client are willing to offer a hybrid working model - 50% home working/50% on site in Worcestershire.
You must hold active SC Clearance to be considered for this position.