Senior Cyber Security Analyst Newcastle Building Society

The Senior Cyber Analyst performs an important responsibility to lead efforts in identifying, analysing, and mitigating cybersecurity threats. You will be expected to assess vulnerabilities, monitor networks for suspicious activity, and develop strategies to protect Group Information assets. Providing guidance on security best practices, overseeing incident response, and ensuring compliance with security regulations and policies.

As the Senior Cyber Analyst, you will work with the Technical Information Security Officer and Cyber Security Manager to support the delivery of highly effective technical standards and roadmaps, in addition to providing strategic security capability direction and secure solutions, security principles, and standards, contributing to the overarching Information / Cyber Security strategy.

You will have either a recognised Information Security / IT Qualification, be working towards a relevant certification (CISSP, CISM, CISMP, CISA, SANS, CEH, TOGAF), or have commensurate experience. Financial services experience is desirable.

It is essential that you have knowledge of Industry Standards: ISO 27001, PCI DSS, NIST 800, as well as experience working with Defender XDR, Threat intelligence, Microsoft Purview, SIEM and security monitoring, Azure Cloud, Network security (WAF, Firewalls, Network Segmentation), Vulnerability management, Identity and access management (Entra ID), and mobile device management.

You will possess demonstrable experience working with Power BI, Zero Trust Principles, and developing Cyber Security Strategy.