Security Operations Analyst - Now Hiring

Join National Grid’s digital transformation! We are digital creators, continuous learners and daring innovators. We leverage digital innovative ways to create products and catalyze the transformation of National Grid's business units into more agile and digitally native organizations in our shared purpose of bringing energy to life. Come and join us on this incredible journey, 

We want to find a highly motivated individual keen to join a dynamic and fast paced organization going through crucial transformation. If you yearn to be innovative and contribute new ideas and play a critical part in the Cyber Security Incident Response team, we want to hear from you!

As a Cyber Security Incident Response Team Analyst, you'll work in a fast-paced operations environment performing monitoring and response activities in the National Grid Global Cyber Security Operations Center. You'll monitor networks, hosts and endpoints for malicious activity using Security Incident and Event Management (SIEM) tools, Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) tools, Antivirus and Malware detection tools and email security appliances. You'll cover investigation and incident response and ensure all investigative activity is properly documented in our ticketing systems and followed up with relevant support teams.  Key responsibilities include the following: 

• Responsible for working in a 24x7 Security Operation Center (SOC) environment.
• Event triage and analysis from security log data from various security devices.
• Document all analysis steps performed within case management system.
• Provide Incident Response support when initial analysis confirms actionable incident.
• Coordinate with other analysts and senior analysts and support security teams on incidents. 
• Integrate and share information with other analysts and other teams.
• Develop, improve, and maintain documentation and processes.

• Relevant experience in a Security Operations environment 
• Fundamental understanding of networking protocols and infrastructure designs; including cloud infrastructures, routing, firewall functionality, host and network intrusion detection systems, encryption, and other network protocols
• Hands-on experience with security technologies like firewalls, anti-virus and SIEM
• Experience with the following SecOps processes:

           o    Email Investigations – Including Header Analysis, Office Doc Investigations and Macro Extraction
           o    Basic Malware Analysis – Dynamic analysis
           o    Event Log analysis

• Fundamental understanding of Windows and Linux Operating Systems

• Knowledge of the role that a Cyber Security Operations center plays in an organization’s security team. 
• Experience working in security tools like SIEM, EDR and IDS/IPS solutions 
• Demonstrated ability to coordinate and respond to security incidents using commercial and/or open-source technologies.
• Experience with Incident Response methodology in investigations, and the groups behind targeted attacks and tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs).

• Consistent growth potential through company leadership programs
• Competitive compensation package including robust benefits with a yearly bonus 
• Numerous wellness programs
• A multitude of company-endorsed community programs to participate in

Are you the right fit for this exciting role? You want to learn more about the position and National Grid's ambitious Digital Transformation? Then let's chat!

Apply directly or reach out to me at [email protected]. 

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