Harrington Starr
Senior Cyber Defence Analyst/ Blue Team Analyst

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Harrington Starr are seeking a Cyber Threat Operations and Defence Specialist for a tier one bank in their EMEA hub, which will form part of a wider global team. The role is based in London (city) with a hybrid model on offer.
This role will suit a proactive blue teamer who will work on incident management/investigations, threat hunting along with elements of Security Engineering. It will also suit a technically ambitious individual who enjoys challenging themselves and will give the successful candidate the opportunity to part of a highly talented team with a huge investment in to cyber both from a resource and tooling perspective.
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Key tasks will include:
- Incident triage – including high priority and complex investigations.
- Threat hunting and proactively seeking out suspicious activities and threats.
- Analysis of attacks and trends.
- Presenting detailed analysis of attacks to stakeholders.
- Threat detection including SIEM use detection cases, and analysing data from the SIEM.
- Utilising all amiable tooling.
- Staying abreast of new attacker techniques and industry trends.


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Key skills needed:
- A proven track record in a similar blue team/cyber defence role.
- An offensive security mindset.
- Email gateway security roles.
- Experience of Endpoint protection platforms.
- Experience of working with and ideally some experience of fine tuning a SIEM solution.
- Experience of identity and access management and cloud security architectures highly desirable.
- Any industry certs – CISSP, OSCP, SANS desirable.
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