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Cyber Security Operations Engineer

Manchester
1 month ago
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Prestigious opportunity for a Cyber Security Operations Engineer for an International market leading organisation. Following a period of significant growth and success, we are expanding the team in our Global Security Operations Centre and welcome your application! This is a hybrid role in a pioneering technology team, offering ongoing career development and training.

The successful candidate will be required to undergo UK Security Clearance, therefore must be eligible.

As one of our Cyber Security Operations Engineers, you will be responsible for:-

Conducting security investigations and leading security incident responses, driving incident resolution
Monitoring security systems and infrastructure to support the best performance and reliability
Implementing and managing security tools and processes, to detect and mitigate threats
Maintaining robust security feeds and ensuring data integrity
Proactively looking for threats, working with level one analysts, affected teams and security vendors
Identifying and implementing security process automation, continuously improving processes and tools
Providing expertise to partnered security teams in the mitigation of threats
Communicate complex technical information clearly and concisely to both technical and non-technical audiences
Collaborating with partner security teams to bolster support of the organisation's security infrastructure
If you possess a combination of some of the following skills, then LETS TALK!

Expertise in an operational Security Operations Centre
Previous experience as a Cyber Security Operations Engineer
Hands-on experience in an incident response role utilising CrowdStrike
Experience developing and delivering on incident and program status
Familiar with threat hunting, leveraging intelligence data to proactively find and iteratively investigate suspicious behaviour across networks and systems
Experience analysing network and host-based security events
System Administration with either Microsoft Windows or Linux
Understanding CLI shells such as PowerShell or Bash
Security Log infrastructure configuration such as Windows Event Forwarding (WEF) or syslog
Knowledge of an interpreted language such as Python, Perl, or Ruby
Operating systems, file systems, and memory structures on Windows, MacOS and Linux
Knowledge of networking technologies, specifically TCP/IP and the related protocols
Understanding of networks, operating systems, and architecture and how they affect the security of an organisation

In return, you will be rewarded with an enviable benefits package, hybrid working and ongoing career development.

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