Cyber Security Analyst

Sword is a leading provider of business technology solutions within the Energy, Public and Finance Sectors, dedicated to driving transformational change for our clients. We leverage proven technology, specialist teams, and extensive domain expertise to create robust technical foundations across platforms, data, and business applications. Our mission is fueled by a passion for technology as a means to solve complex business problems and achieve our clients' objectives.

About the Role:

The Cyber Security Analyst is responsible for cyber assurance over the IS environment and ensuring that information assets and associated technologies, applications, systems, infrastructure, and processes are adequately protected.

• The Cyber Security Analyst is responsible for identifying, evaluating, and reporting cybersecurity risk to information assets and reporting associated risks.
• The Cyber Security Analyst, working together with the Operational Security team, understands and articulates the impact of cyber security risks and threats to (digital) business and communicates this to Senior Manager- Global Cyber Operations or delegate.
• The Cyber Security Analyst supports the Cyber Operations team in carrying out appropriate second-line assurance activities related to confidentiality, integrity, and availability, as well as the safety, privacy, and recovery of information owned or processed by the business in compliance with regulatory requirements.
• The role works with appropriate teams and 3rd party vendors to ensure the third party related cyber risks are identified and assessed appropriately.

Roles and Responsibilities

• Works with Project Team, Operations, and IS Security team to support IS in the delivery of secure, reliable, and safe IS operations to the business.
• Work across vendors, project teams, and wider IS team to define IS Security requirements for systems and solutions.
• Research and provide security solutions for complex application and systems integrations.
• Provides support on the full life cycle of design, development, and operation of security tools and services.
• Builds successful peer relationships with other IS and business functions.
• Follows the formal governance mechanism to establish and monitor effective controls for the processes and functions performed by the IS Security team.
• Supports IS Security to achieve regulatory and statutory compliance requirements.
• Complete cyber risk assessments, including third party suppliers.
• Apply threat modelling principles to complex system and solution designs to identify security risks and appropriate mitigations.
• Supports, monitors, and recommends improvements to cyber incident management process.
• Provides input and support to operational projects related to cyber security.
• Experience of working in an organisation distributed across different geographies and time zones, with the ability to communicate the IS security goals (preferred).
• Excellent analytical, problem solving, and execution skills (essential).
• Strong cyber security-specific experience, supported by relevant industry certifications (e.g. CySA+, Security+) and risk management knowledge (essential).
• Knowledge and experience working across a diverse range of cyber security tools, including SIEM technologies, EDR, NIDS etc. (essential).
• Self-motivated with a willingness to go the extra mile to achieve important goals (essential).
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including the ability to explain technical concepts and technologies to technical and non-technical audiences (essential).
• Cyber Security KPI monitoring and delivery (preferred).
• Experience engaging 3rd party security specialists to provide additional assurance. (preferred).
• Understanding of assessing data security and governance requirements and identifying suitable controls. (essential).
• Experience of delivering cloud focused security solutions with a solid understanding of modern cyber threats and threat modelling techniques (preferred).
• Good understanding of security frameworks (NIST CSF, Mitre ATT & CK) (essential).