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Join us at Barclays as a Lead Cyber Operations Analyst, where you’ll play a key role in strengthening our cyber containment capabilities and supporting our transition to a more advanced Cyber Operations model. In this senior role, you’ll coordinate complex bank‑wide activities, guide critical testing efforts, and help protect the organisation against an evolving threat landscape, including participating in on‑call support.
Job Responsibility:
Management of security monitoring systems, including intrusive prevention and detection systems, to alert, detect and block potential cyber security incidents, and provide a prompt response to restore normal operations with minimised system damage
Identification of emerging cyber security threats, attack techniques and technologies to detect/prevent incidents, and collaborate with networks and conferences to gain industry knowledge and expertise
Management and analysis of security information and event management systems to collect, correlate and analyse security logs, events and alerts/potential threats
Triage of data loss prevention alerts to identify and prevent sensitive data for being exfiltrated from the banks network
Management of cyber security incidents including remediation & driving to closure
Requirements:
Strong hands‑on experience in Cyber Security Incident Response or Cyber Operations
Deep technical expertise in one or more IR‑relevant domains (e.g. SOC operations, malware analysis, endpoint detection, network security, cloud security)
Proven ability to operate calmly and decisively in high‑pressure, time‑critical situations
Good knowledge of security toolsets
Prior experience with scripting languages & proficiency in data analysis
Excellent inter-personal skills with experience of briefing, de-briefing and presenting to senior executives and having effective listening skills
Strong understanding of cyber risk, controls, and security governance
Excellent written and verbal communication skills
Nice to have:
Familiarity with Financial Services regulatory landscape and related compliance issues
Proficiency in SIEM technologies & usability in a Large & Complex Computing Environment
Analysis and response of detected security incidents, timely escalation and drive to ensure the closure of incidents
Incident Response skills including proficiency in PCAP Capture, Network Analysis, and Traffic Patterns