Security Analyst

About the role:

As a Security Analyst, you will monitor our endpoints, environments, and networks for security threats, deploy and maintain security tooling, and take ownership of day-to-day security monitoring. You will support the Lead Security Analyst in ensuring security events are triaged effectively, noise is managed, and reporting to stakeholders is clear and consistent.

You will be working with the IT team to ensure that security events are triaged, tune events out and take ownership of the Security Monitoring tools. This role will be supporting the Lead Security Analyst and ensure that reporting to the necessary stakeholders are clear and repeatable.

Role Responsibilities:

• Monitor security solutions for alerts and events and respond in a timely and structured manner working with Outsourced SOC partner.
• Triage security events and escalate through the appropriate Incident Management procedure/change management and playbooks.
• Investigate and support the response to security incidents and breaches.
• Record and document security incidents, assessing their scope and any resulting impact.
• Remediate detected vulnerabilities to maintain a high security standard.
• Contribute to the development of company-wide best practices for IT security.
• Research emerging threats and security enhancements and make recommendations to management.
• Stay current on information security trends, standards, vulnerabilities and evolving threat landscapes in relation to Oxbury.
• Handle security information, logs, and investigation data appropriately, ensuring confidentiality and alignment with data protection requirements.
• Track and analyse security metrics, trends, and recurring issues to support continuous improvement of security operations.
• Produce and maintain regular security reporting packs for relevant stakeholders.

Required Skills / Experience:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field.
• (1 Year) Experience in information security or related field.
• Experience with some of the following:

-Security testing and techniques.

-Firewalls, proxies, SIEM, antivirus, and IDPS concepts.

-End User endpoint security and vulnerability scanning

-Patch management, including the ability to deploy patches in a timely manner while understanding business impact.

-Identification and mitigation of security vulnerabilities

• Cloud platforms:

-Experience of Microsoft O365/Entra platform and associated services.

-Experience of AWS platform and associated services.

• Email Security Gateway.
• Good communication skills, with an ability to explain complex concepts using terminology that can be understood by non-technical colleagues.

Desirable Skills / Experience:

• Cisco Security platforms (Cisco Umbrella, SASE, ISE).

Why join Oxbury?

We are Oxbury: The only UK bank dedicated to British agriculture. Founded by farmers, bankers, and technologists, we have combined the worlds of financial services, technology, and agriculture to provide bespoke financial products to support the rural economy.

Our mission is to create and grow a sustainable, customer-focused, and innovative bank that supports and champions the financial health of the rural economy.

Alongside this we can offer you:

• An an excellent benefits package.
• 25 days holiday, plus 8 days bank holiday (this increases with service).
• Oxbury Bonus scheme.
• Free Personal Training session every week.
• Private Medical Healthcare.
• Employee Assistance Programme.
• Life Insurance.
• Enhanced maternity/paternity leave.
• Employee referral scheme.

Please note that we do not offer sponsorship with this role.