Senior SOC Analyst

University of The Arts London

University of the Arts London (UAL) is a world-leading creative university for teaching and research in art, design, fashion, communication and performing arts. UAL is made up of six renowned colleges and hosts several institutes that further the university s mission and social purpose. Under the leadership of our new President and Vice-Chancellor, we are designing the University around social purpose; through the students and ideas we send out into the world, and the partnerships we build to achieve social, environmental, and economic progress.

The Cyber Security team is uniquely placed to advise, support, and defend the University against security threats targeting our staff, students, and our research work. The team aims to protect and educate staff and students and ensure that security by design is implemented within all applicable laws and regulations.

As a Senior SOC Analyst, you will contribute to the operation, development, and improvement of the IT Security standards, procedures, and policies, which comprise the University Information Security Management Systems and IT Security Policy Framework. You will operate, maintain and assess security enforcing systems across the University IT Services environment. This includes Security-related service management processes and Cyber Security incident management functions (prevention, detection, response).

In addition, you will provide specialist information and Cyber Security expertise to defend the University s digital services from cyber-attacks by overseeing and collaborating with the MSSP to remediate vulnerabilities and create use cases, runbooks, and monitor daily alerts. In addition, you will oversee the management of patching, vulnerability analysis and penetration testing of University IT systems, including assisting with the development and maturity of the programme, thus ensuring threats to the University s systems and data are identified, remediated, or mitigated

Reporting to the Cyber Security Manager, you will primarily be working alongside technical colleagues in the Digital & Technology group and will be responsible for the day-to-day operations of SOC, SIEM, XDR & EDR, log analysis and technical management of Information and Cyber Security issues within the University. The role requires working with third-party vendors that supply services to UAL.

Experience

• Experience with Information and Cyber Security within a large organisation providing support and delivery of SOC
• Experience of SIEM tools (Splunk, QRadar OR LogRhythm and others)
• Designing, implementing, and supporting technical security controls (internally & cloud-hosted) against security threats and to address specific security challenges
• Assessing security infrastructure, network, and systems design to evaluate and identify security risks, threats and vulnerabilities of networks, systems, applications, and new technology initiatives
• Experience conducting assessments of existing and new software deployments
• Experience with security tooling, particularly within a mixed Windows, Linux, Mac, and Cloud environment
• Experience with XDR, EDR, email & remote access security, content filtering (web/email), Cloud Security (SaaS, PaaS, IaaS)
• Experience with anomaly detection, O365, Azure. MS Intune, Identity Management
• Experience with review and analysis of firewalls, management of Cisco Umbrella, network traffic analysis, vulnerability management and scanning, attack methods and infection vectors, risk assessments, and penetration testing.

UAL is a world-class university, shaping the creative industries worldwide, and staff have access to a range of benefits, which recognise and reward the contributions they make, including:

• Competitive salary package of £47,109 £55,172 per annum
• A healthy work-life balance for all employees, and much more!
• 34 days annual leave plus public holidays
• Generous, defined benefit pension scheme
• Family-friendly policies, including 26 weeks of full maternity or paternity pay

For more information on UAL, and the Cyber Security Team, please visit the dedicated microsite here: Welcome University of the Arts London url removed

Hays Technology have been retained by University of the Arts to manage the recruitment of this role. For all enquiries, please contact Michael Arnold at Hays Technology.