Security Analyst

Ordnance Survey has an opportunity available for a Security Analyst to join the team based in Southampton. You will join us on a full time, permanent basis and in return, you will receive a competitive salary of circa £40,000 per annum plus excellent benefits – this is a fantastic opportunity to develop a rewarding career. About us: Ordnance Survey (OS) is the national mapping agency for Great Britain, and a world-leading geospatial data and technology organisation. As a reliable partner to government, business and citizens across Britain and the world, OS helps its customers in virtually all sectors improve quality of life. OS expertise and data supports efficient public services and infrastructure, new technologies in transport and communications, national security and emergency services and exploring the great outdoors. By being at the forefront of geospatial capability for more than 225 years, we’ve built a reputation as the world’s most inspiring and trusted geospatial partner. We offer fantastic benefits to our Security Analyst: - Salary – circa £80,000 - Competitive pension - 37 hour working week with flexible working hours - 25 days annual leave - (30 days after five years) bank holidays and an extra 3 over Christmas - Training & Development - Paid volunteer day - Bike to Work scheme (with secure bike storage and excellent changing facilities) - Free onsite parking - Subsidised on-site staff restaurant - On-site nursery - Very generous staff benefits including over 500 discounts from national stores - Wide variety of sports and social clubs - Support for your health and wellbeing from eye care vouchers to health checks - Flexible working hours About the role: You’ll be part of an organisation with a clear strategy to become a digital business and with an ambitious transformation agenda to enable us to give our customers the services, products and experiences that they have come to expect. You will play a critical role in ensuring we can realise these goals. Your role will include working with our IT department and members of the Information Security Team to identify, select and implement technical controls, tooling, policies and procedures, as well as working with operational and service management teams to assess the severity of security patches, hot-fixes and service packs. You will be at the front-line of monitoring and responding to security-related events across the organisation, responding to and investigating alerts. Additionally, you will conduct cyber-security risk assessment activities, analysing the results and producing recommendations to address and mitigate risks. And you will support our Security Architect in the development of strategies, plans, policies and standards to enforce security requirements. Skills and experience required to be our Security Analyst: - Excellent knowledge and experience of IT and network security - Excellent knowledge, understanding and experience of information risk concepts and principles - Very good knowledge and experience of cloud platforms, such as Azure, AWS and Oracle, as well as Windows and Linux platforms - Good knowledge of vulnerability Management tools, Security Incident Event Management processes and Security Operations Centre - Knowledge of the Data Protection Act and General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) - Good familiarity with industry compliance and security standards such as Cyber Essentials, ISO 27001, cloud security, 10 Steps to Cyber Security - Relevant qualifications, either Systems Security Certified Practitioner (SSCP), Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) or BCS Information Security Management Principles - A minimum of two years in a security role or five years’ experience working in a 2nd or 3rd level technical role. Why not click ‘apply’ today? Don’t miss out on this opportunity to join our team as our Security Analyst. Closing date: 8th November 2018