Senior Cyber Security AnalystSimply Business

London, U 30-07-2024
InfoSec
Here’s what you’ll be doing:

When you join Simply Business, you’ll protect us from threat actors who attempt to evade our cyber defences. This is a hands-on technical position where you’ll play an important role in increasing the maturity of our Security Operations Centre (SOC).

Additionally, you’ll need a strong drive and willingness to learn and grow. You’ll be in a rapidly evolving environment, which will bring new challenges and opportunities for growth on a regular basis. You’ll be empowered to develop and explore your unique passion for cyber security operations.

In return we offer an extremely agile working environment with some of the latest technologies such as SASE, AI and with lots of automation. One of our main values is empowerment, and we offer the ability for people to drive significant change and really make a difference. Simply Business is a cloud-native company which is leading the way with its offerings in the InsureTech market.


You will be reporting into Laura the Security Operations Lead, and working alongside an award winning team of 5 other analysts, a threat intelligence lead and 2 engineers with a diverse set of technical skills and backgrounds within cyber security.

As a Senior Cyber Security Analyst you will:

    • Be the face of InfoSec within the business. You’ll address security issues as an enabler, not a blocker, by working proactively with all teams and baking security into our tech
    • Articulate the ‘why’ behind what we do to technical and non-technical colleagues
    • Contribute in establishing a security culture throughout the business and enjoy autonomy and flexibility to experiment on ideas that could help improve InfoSec as a whole

We’re looking for someone who is:

    • proactive in identifying and responding to potential security incidents within Simply Business’ estate, following and developing playbooks and contributing your expert opinion
    • lead process improvements, delivering increased capability to detect threats and respond appropriately
    • support the SOC Lead with technical leadership, supporting, training and mentoring analysts within the team
    • develop & improve our detect and respond capabilities, using the latest orchestration and automation tooling
    • an SME in one of the following areas: Security Incident Response, EDR e.g. Carbon Black, Crowdstrike; SIEM e.g. Splunk, Elastic; Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) e.g. Zscaler, Netskope, Vulnerability Management e.g. Rapid7, Nessus; Network Detection and Respond e.g. Darktrace, Cisco SNA, 
    • understanding of the Cyber Attack Lifecycle or common attack types (eg Insider Threat, Phishing, DDoS), and their associated methods
(We know it’s tough, but please try to avoid the ​​confidence gap​.​​ You don’t have to match all the bullet points above to be considered for this role.)

Ready to join us and help us elevate our security practices? Apply today.