Description
Role: Senior IT Security Incident Coordinator
Location: Remote
IR35: Inside
Rate: £750/day (umbrella)
Duration: 6 months
CV Deadline: 17th COP
Responsibilities
In this role you will be expected to coordinate and lead on various incidents, reporting into the Head of Security Operations in the CISO team. These will include typical security incidents across a variety of systems and teams. You will be working closely with our security monitoring teams and other incident handling teams as well as suppliers and may have to coordinate several different parties in some cases.
The focus here is on coordination of incidents, working with staff and colleagues, rather than deeply technical analysis - however technical skills and knowledge (particularly of AWS and Azure) will be very beneficial.
You will be joining a rapidly developing team and as such the role may be quite varied including work such as:
- Leading/managing security incidents
- Working closely with our security monitoring, IT and security architect teams to understand and properly handle incidents
- Handling end user'/staff incidents, working with HR as required
- Collating and reporting on incidents
- Mentoring and supporting junior incident handling staff
- Helping to review and improve incident response capabilities
- Tracking post incident learnings and actions
- Leading major' incidents/leading the security' response on major IT/other incidents
- Threat analysis/intelligence
- Purple/blue teaming and incident exercising
Essential requirements
- Years experience leading a range of security incidents
- The focus here is on coordination of incidents, working with staff and colleagues, rather than deeply technical analysis.
- Years experience in a cyber/IT security role - preferably in an in-house security function or as a consultant
- Ability to manage and track complex incidents and manage multiple tasks and teams during an incident - good project mgmt. skills would assist
- Experience working with security monitoring teams/SOCs
- Experience working with vendors/3rd parties
- AWS, Azure and on-premise security experience
- Ability to present findings clearly and concisely
- Ability to lead and guide others
To apply for this role please submit your latest CV or contact Aspect Resources