Cyber Security Engineer

Cyber Security Analyst – SC/DV CLEARED

£540 – £720 per day

Bristol

12 month contract

My client is a large IT defence company who are currently looking for an ArcSight and SIEM Engineer to join them on a 12 month contract based on their site in Bristol.

Responsibilities:

You will be responsible for leading a team of SOC Operations Analyst who will analyse network, application and system log events in order to identify any potentially abnormal system behaviours and raise them as incidents for investigation. You will then investigate to establish if these are expected events or a security threat. You work closely with the Principle Operations Analyst (Incident Handler) and CIRT team members to identify or mitigate threats for our customers.

As a SOC Senior Operations Analyst you will provide a Technical Escalation Point during security incidents, establishing the extent of an attack, the business impacts, and advising on how best to contain the incident along with advice on systems hardening and mitigation measures to prevent a re-occurrence.

In addition, as a Senior Operations Analyst you will have the important role of working with external organisations and trusted partners to tune the service by designing advance detection rules to be implemented into the SIEM Solution.

Skills Required:

+ Previous experience of managing and coaching teams
+ ArcSight, LogRhythm, RSA Envision, Splunk
+ Experience of maintaining a secure network through configuring and managing typical Security Enforcing Devices, such as Firewalls, Proxies, IDS/IPS devices, EPO.
+ In depth experience of other common devices, such as routers, switches, hubs
+ Troubleshooting Windows environments
+ Experience of using SIEM tools and the terminology associated with them.
+ Knowledge and understanding of information technology concepts and technologies, as is knowledge of computer systems hardware and software, entity relationship models, design, protocols, attack vectors and methodologies.
+ Strong understanding of network monitoring and packet analysis tools
+ Significant experience with TCP/IP, Linux, UNIX, Windows, IP Routing