Cyber Security Analyst Inside IR35

Contract Term: 12 Months

Contracting Authority: Network Rail

Location: Manchester (site based with 1 shift per week remote)

Network Rail is at the heart of revitalising Britain’s railway. From Crossrail – Europe’s largest civil engineering project – to investment in world-class stations and major programmes of electrification, we're involved in some of the most ambitious and diverse ventures that this country has ever seen. We at Network Rail are dedicated to becoming one of Britain's best employers and believe this starts with placing the candidate at the heart of everything we do!

As a Cyber Security Analyst your main responsibilities would be to:

• Monitoring, evaluating and responding to security events and incidents by making use of defined security technologies and having a good understanding of exploits and vulnerabilities.
• Provide real-time log analysis and investigation through recognition of attempted or successful intrusions and compromises to provide network and data security.
• Take appropriate corrective action or follow defined escalation procedures in the event of a security event or incident and work so security investigations are managed through to resolution.
• Be able to recognise network intrusion attempts or compromises based on their traffic patterns, behaviours or signatures and have the ability to identify false positives from true intrusion attempts.
• Actively monitor external security vulnerabilities, advisories, incidents and penetration techniques when required and have to ability to apply risk-based threat assessment techniques against the asset estate.
• Support Security Engineers in conducting periodic vulnerability assessments and reporting based on the prioritised asset estate.
• Aid in the generation and review of periodic security operational reports on SOC activities.
• Perform tasks as directed by the daily operations task list or team leader.
• Work in a team environment to aid in the monitoring and health of the security devices within the network.

You’ll have relevant essential experience, demonstrated on your C.V in:

• Experience working in a SOC/NOC environment.
• Experience of: Darktrace, QRadar, Nessus/Tenable.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Understanding of incident response processes and how incidents should be managed from identification through to resolution.
• Experience in event log analysis, network traffic packet capture and associated tools.
• Strong understanding of networking and security technologies (routers, switches, firewalls, IDS/IPS, DDoS, Servers, end-point devices)
• Understanding of network systems and system/device logs.
• Experience in system hardening.

You will also have these desirable Qualifications/Skills:

• Security qualifications such as Security +, GIAC Certified Intrusion Analyst (GCIA), EC-Council Certified Security Analyst (ECSA) and GIAC Certified Incident Handler (GCIH).
• Experience in logging and network monitoring technologies.
• Knowledge of networking technologies and network management systems.
• Arbor, Cisqo Firewalls and Blue Coat proxy.

If the role of Cyber Security Analyst sounds like something that you would be interested in, please click the link to apply and get in touch with <email address removed>

Network Rail are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity. They welcome applications from everyone

In applying for this role, you acknowledge the following: this role falls in scope of the Off Payroll Working in the Public Sector legislation. Any rates of payment quoted will reflect the gross rate per day for the assignment and will be subject to appropriate taxes and statutory costs. As such the payment to the intermediary and your income resulting from this contract will be different.

Please be aware that this role can only be worked within the UK and not Overseas.