Lead Monitoring & Incident Response Analyst Inside IR35

Contract Term: 6 months

Contracting Authority: Department for Digital, Culture Media and Sport

Location: Hybrid - London 60% office attendance

As a Lead Monitoring & Incident Response Analyst, your main responsibilities will be:

• Conducting both on-demand and continuous vulnerability monitoring activities, tracking vulnerability remediation in conjunction with technical counterparts.
• Working both independently and in conjunction with contracted SOC services to carry out security monitoring activities, seeking to identify evidence of potential threats.
• In the event of an incident, leading incident response activity at the operational level.
• Developing a suite of playbooks that will enable a clear, well-orchestrated response, in the event of an incident.
• Steering activities that test the maturity and effectiveness of security countermeasures and incident response training.

You will have:

SC Clearance is an essential requirement for this role, as a minimum you must be eligible and willing to undergo these checks.

• Experience in-line with the Vulnerability Management role (with additions) of the Government Security Profession Career Framework - Information Risk Assessment and Risk Management.
• Threat Intelligence and Threat Assessment.
• Experience of consuming threat intelligence information for use in security monitoring activities.
• Cyber Security Operations.
• Demonstrable experience working as part of a multi-disciplinary team in delivering SOC services.
• Experience of using Microsoft Sentinel to facilitate security monitoring and incident response activities.
• Threat Understanding.
• An understanding of common cyber threats, including common attack vectors.

If this role sounds like something that you would be interested in, please click the link to apply or get in touch with Rebecca Nolan

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If you qualify for the above, please notify us on PSRapplications@publicsectorresourcing.co.uk.

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Please be aware that this role can only be worked within the UK and not Overseas.