Cyber Security Analyst

Company Description

Netcompany is one of the fastest growing technology companies in the UK, recognised for disrupting the marketplace and helping to transform the IT sector. We deliver IT Transformation and Delivery services to some of the most well-known organisations in the UK and can count 18% of the FTSE 100 as clients, delivering services across several different sectors.

Netcompany have ambitious growth plans for the next few years and will continue to win and deliver multi-million-pound projects, offering a fantastic opportunity for all members of staff to grow with us and carve out a challenging, successful and rewarding career

Job Description

Serves as the operational backbone of the SOC, responsible for day-to-day monitoring, triage, investigation, and initial incident response activities. Supports senior team members by handling frontline operations and providing valuable operational insights.

Key responsibilities:

• Monitor, triage, and investigate security alerts across protective monitoring platforms
• Review security event data, identify incidents, and escalate appropriately
• Support incident response activities including containment, eradication, and recovery
• Execute runbooks and contribute to their improvement
• Feed detection tuning recommendations back to the senior
• Coordinate with infrastructure and application teams during incidents under the senior's direction
• Contribute to dashboard monitoring and retrospective analysis
• Help shape the SOC's runbooks, processes, and operational standards as they are developed

Qualifications

• 2–4 years in a SOC, monitoring, or security analyst role
• Hands-on SIEM experience and demonstrable alert triage capability
• Working knowledge of AWS security services
• Comfortable with ambiguity (the SOC is being built around them)
• Strong communication skills and ability to collaborate with technical teams
• Degree in a relevant technical field or equivalent professional experience
• At least one entry/mid-level certification (Security+, CySA+, BTL1, or SC-200)
• SC-cleared or genuinely cleared-eligible

Nice-to-haves:

• Detection authoring experience (writing rules, not just consuming them)
• Scripting ability (Terraform, Python or PowerShell)
• Prior cleared environment experience
• Familiarity with AWS-native security tooling (GuardDuty, Security Hub, CloudTrail, Detective)
• Additional certifications (GCIA, AWS Certified Security Specialty, vendor-specific SIEM certs)

Additional Information

Netcompany Academy

Through our Netcompany Academy, we offer a diverse range of courses, seminars and certifications carefully curated to support your development. As you advance in your career, the Academy tailors its offerings to enhance your managerial skills, deepen your understanding of methodologies, hone your leadership abilities, and fine-tune your strategic acumen. 

As you progress through the content, you’ll naturally take on more responsibility and network with your peers.

Benefits include

• 25 days’ holiday
• Private Medical Health care via Vitality
• Pension contribution, Life Assurance
• Professional certifications supported as part of learning and development.
• A range of retail discounts to enhance your lifestyle, encompassing restaurants, supermarkets, travel, leisure activities and health and well-being services.
• Access to our Employee Resource Groups, our groups represent diverse backgrounds and provide a platform for colleagues to connect, learn, and support one another.

Company information

Join Netcompany, where we proudly hold the 5th position on the esteemed UK Top 50 Best Places to Work in the Glassdoor Employees’ Choice Awards for 2024.

At Netcompany, we pride ourselves on our entrepreneurial spirit and our capacity for doing things differently. Our culture is built on fostering low bureaucracy, emphasizing high agility and promoting flexibility, enabling everyone to contribute their best.

Our journey began in the UK with the acquisition of Hunter Macdonald in 2017. As one of Northern Europe's most accomplished IT companies, we have expanded our headcount globally to 7400+ employees and have offices in UK, Denmark, Norway, Poland, Holland and Vietnam.

Netcompany is committed to providing an inclusive and barrier-free recruitment process for anyone wishing to apply for a job with us.  We operate a Disability Confident Interview Scheme which means that we offer guaranteed interviews to all applicants with a disability who meet the minimum criteria for a role. Applicants are asked to opt in, so please let us know if you wish your application to be considered under this scheme.

If you need any reasonable adjustments or extra support during the recruitment process, please contact us at reasonableadjustments@netcompany.com.

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