Liberty IT employs over 500 people who develop a wide range of specialist and enterprise scale applications and provide technical support across the global enterprise for our parent company, Liberty Mutual. Across our two offices in Belfast and Dublin our teams live and breathe innovation, creativity and commitment to excellence - designing and implementing innovative solutions using both existing and emerging technologies. Combine that with our commitment to providing a great place to work for employees and you have the perfect place to start or grow your career.
Senior Security Analyst
As a Senior Security Analyst you will work as a lead in the Security Operations Centre to provide analysis and remediation to security related technical and system problems of medium to high complexity. You will be responsible for investigating, determining the validity and severity of security related events and taking action to resolve escalated events. You will have the chance to be creative and have your voice heard. We will offer you a competitive salary, enable you to balance your work and life, and support you through mentoring, coaching and training programs.
In this role, you will:
- Deliver real value by analyzing and resolving security related issues working as a lead in a team based environment.
- Working as a technical lead, provide in depth analysis on potential threats through the use of a range of analytic tools and practices.
- Resolve severity 3 security incidents and document the incident handling process
- Using your expertise, investigate and resolve escalated incidents in line with agreed SLAs.
- Conduct initial investigation and have input into the resolution of severity 4 security incidents
- Provide technical leadership in the Security Operations Centre.
- Engage and lead project teams in implementing process and toolset improvements.
- Working with the wider Security Operations Centre, communicate and escalate incidents in line with documented procedures.
- Proactively identify suspicious activity based on data alerts and outputs from various toolsets including suspicious mails and social media.
- Champion and lead the team’s culture of continuous improvement to identify and suggest improvements in processes and practices.
- Continuously develop your own skills and knowledge
- Coach, mentor and provide feedback to the team.
- Actively seek opportunities for you and your team to collaborate with and learn from the technical community across our organization through internal networks, events and communities of practice
The ideal candidate will:
- Be just as good at working with people as technology. Someone who makes a team better by being part of it and has experience of positively leading and mentoring others.
- Have, and promote within the team, a 360 degree mindset to analysis and diagnosis of security related issues and potential breaches.
- Build great customer relationships by listening and empathizing with our customers to provide them with the solutions they really need
- Live, breathe and have a deep understanding of all aspects of information security and hold relevant certificates
- Be proactive about continuous improvement and innovation, and encourage your team to do the same. Someone who doesn’t just dream it but gets it done.
- Share their own experiences and expertise using the right method of communication and the right level for the audience.
- Be interested and have strong knowledge of IT concepts and strategies across all domains including software engineering, cloud computing, DevOps and Information Security.
Essential Criteria
- A third level qualification in an Information Security and Forensics related discipline
- In depth knowledge and at least 3 years’ of practical experience of at least three of the following:
- Log Analysis
- Malware Analysis
- Network Analysis
- End-Point Analysis
- Solid experience in the provision of incident response and in troubleshooting security related issues.
- Proven experience in providing technical leadership
