Senior Cyber Security Analyst

We're recruiting a Senior Cyber Security Analyst to support a high-profile Cyber Defence function responsible for threat intelligence, threat detection, incident response, and vulnerability management across critical government services. This role focuses heavily on leading incident response activities within a complex large-scale environment.

Key Responsibilities

Lead investigations into security alerts to determine the nature, scope, and impact of cyber incidents.

Conduct forensic analysis of systems, files, network traffic, and cloud environments.

Lead technical response actions, including containment, eradication, and recovery.

Coordinate wider incident response activities across teams and stakeholders.

Review previous incidents, identify lessons learned, and drive improvements.

Continually enhance incident response capabilities, tools, and processes.

Develop and maintain internal IR plans, playbooks, and knowledge articles.

Act as an escalation point, providing coaching, mentoring, and leadership to Junior Analysts.

Participate in the out-of-hours on-call rota for major incident support.

Essential Experience

Significant hands-on experience investigating and responding to cyber incidents.

Strong use of EDR and SIEM tools (eg, Splunk) during investigations.

Proven experience managing and coordinating incident response in large organisations.

Ability to analyse threat actor tools, techniques, and procedures (TTPs).

Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills.

Experience mentoring or managing junior team members.

Active SC Clearance.

Desirable

Splunk experience.

Experience working in Agile teams.

Exposure to cloud environments (eg, AWS).