Senior Cyber Defence Analyst

Are you an experienced cyber security professional with a passion for Incident Response and Security Engineering and Threat Intelligence.

I'm working with a global organisation looking to add a Senior Cyber Defence Analyst to its Security Operations team. This is an exciting opportunity to play a key role in responding to complex cyber incidents while helping to enhance detection capabilities, security tooling, automation, and overall cyber resilience.

What you'll be doing:

🔹 Investigate and respond to cyber security incidents across a global enterprise environment

🔹 Support major incident response activities, digital investigations, and post-incident reviews

🔹 Design, develop, and tune detection rules across SIEM, EDR, and SOAR platforms

🔹 Build dashboards, automation, playbooks, and response workflows to improve operational efficiency

🔹 Conduct proactive threat hunting and support intelligence-led investigations

🔹 Perform malware analysis and utilise sandboxing tools to investigate suspicious files and activity

🔹 Collaborate with Vulnerability Management, Threat Intelligence, and Security Operations teams to strengthen defensive capabilities

🔹 Drive continuous improvements across security processes, tooling, and detection coverage

What we're looking for:

✅ Strong experience in Incident Response and Security Operations

✅ Hands-on experience with SIEM, EDR, SOAR, MDR, and detection engineering

✅ Experience with threat hunting, malware analysis, sandboxing, endpoint security, and log analysis

✅ Experience developing playbooks, response workflows, and security automation

✅ Exposure to scripting or automation using KQL, Bash, Python, or PowerShell is desirable

✅ Knowledge of enterprise security frameworks such as ISO 27001, NIS2, GDPR, or ITIL is advantageous

✅ Excellent analytical, investigation, and stakeholder communication skills

This is an excellent opportunity to join a collaborative Security Operations team where you'll work on complex security incidents, contribute to engineering improvements, and help shape the future of cyber defence within a large enterprise environment.

📩 If you'd like to learn more, apply today or send me a message for a confidential discussion.