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Cyber Security Analyst
| Posting date: | 07 April 2025 |
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| Salary: | £46,148.00 to £52,809.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £46148.00 - £52809.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 30 April 2025 |
| Location: | Colchester, CO4 9YQ |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | B9828-25-0096 |
Summary
Operational or Strategic Responsibilities Provide analytical, strategic, and technical skills to design, develop, implement, and use state-of-the-art technology cybersecurity solutions aimed at reducing risk. Analysing security event data arising from activity across the organisation with the goal of detecting malicious activity. Investigating security alerts and incidents generated by security tools within the organisation, resolving or escalating as appropriate. Producing documentation relating to the processing of alerts and incidents which includes the identification of improvements to processes and/or tooling. Conducting security assessments through vulnerability testing and risk analysis. Analysing security breaches to identify the root cause. Define and mature playbooks for response to cyber threats. Use threat intelligence to pinpoint scale of the attack, the type of attack and systems affected. Provide incident response for confirmed security incidents. Be the point of contact for Security incidents, events and requests and ensure all are logged. Assist with any internal and external audit requirements and collate information as necessary to respond to any queries where appropriate. Creation and maintenance of procedure manuals. Promoting Security awareness across the business. Understand legal & regulatory requirements and procedures in place relating to Security. Actively remain informed about new and evolving technological and cyber security change, including working towards and obtaining relevant professional certifications. Communication and Relationship Skills Use of tact and diplomacy when dealing with customers and suppliers. Use of negotiation skills when setting and agreeing priorities with senior managers, e.g. when prioritising developments, agreeing system designs or new processes. Give technical presentations and training on complex IT issues. Communication of a range of complicated, detailed and difficult to explain multi-stranded IT issues to both peers and non-IT staff and suppliers. Communication of complex IT issues and solutions with staff at various levels across the trust and to external technical teams, this requires excellent written and verbal communication skills. Autonomy Ensure their own training is up to date. Keep up to date with national guidance and Provide policies, highlighting any required changes to the departments manager. Plan own workload and activities to meet project deadlines and provide user support. Ability to work unsupervised and make decisions without referring to a manager to achieve agreed objectives. Review, propose, develop and implement processes for own area of work. Act as a lead specialist in own area of work. Using knowledge gained through formal learning and work experience to make judgements on how to most effectively resolve IT problems where there may be a range of options. Work within broad policies and national guidance that may require interpretation due to the complexity and technical nature of the guidance. Responsibility for Human Resources/Supervision or Management of others Assist with the induction of new members of staff. Supporting the development of more junior members of the team. Deliver training on a range of IT subjects to other members of the IT Team. Allocates work to more junior members of staff. Plans workload within own area of work. Responsibility for Finance/Resources or Budget Ordering and receipting of IT hardware and software which can often be of high value. Responsible for the proper and safe use of IT equipment by users. Use of Information Resources Responsible for the planning, development, review, update and introduction of IT infrastructure and server related projects, e.g. implementation of new servers. Ensuring databases are kept up to date and maintained to a high quality, this will include the Configuration Management Data Base. Entering data into a range of IT systems and auditing this data when required. Production of reports. Using analytical skill for the production of statistics on the performance of the department and suppliers for the service managers, these may be circulated to Provides board members and Senior Management Team. Email, telephone and face to face communication with customers and suppliers. Making modifications and repairs to IT software, hardware and code. Development of training materials and processes. Responsibility for Patient Care There is no responsibility beyond incidental contact with patients.