Home Office Cyber Security (HOCS) - Tier 1 Analyst
| Posting date: | 20 May 2025 |
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| Salary: | £37,300 to £39,911 per year |
| Additional salary information: | New entrants to the Civil Service will start their role on the salary band minimum: £37,300. Additionally, this role attracts a shift working allowance of 37.75%. Recruitment Retention Allowance (RRA): Up to £5,000 is available for candidates who demonstr |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 26 May 2025 |
| Location: | Manchester |
| Company: | Government Recruitment Service |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 405653/1 |
Summary
Digital Data and Technology (DDaT) enables the Home Office to keep citizens safe and the country secure, as well as at the front line of making the Home Office a modern and capable department at a time of unprecedented global change.
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The role of a Tier 1 Analyst is to collect and analyse security event data from across the organisation, refine and improve alerting rules, and investigate indicators of potentially malicious activity. Escalating incidents or initiating appropriate responses when necessary./*EndFragment */
This is an exciting time to be at the Home Office. You’ll have a chance to shape the future and support our mission to deliver exceptional public services that work for everyone.
As a Tier 1 Analyst, your main day-to-day responsibilities will be:
- Assisting the team to monitor, triage and investigate security alerts on protective monitoring platforms to identify security incidents and aid analysis of security event data to support the response, reporting or escalating where appropriate.
- Supporting the identification of new and emerging technologies, products, services, methods and techniques. Helping to assess their relevance and the potential impacts (both threats and opportunities) upon business enablers, performance or sustainability. The communication of emerging technologies and their impact.
- Working with colleagues across government using specialist security tools. Working on increasing knowledge of common approaches and tooling to perform vulnerability assessment and to validate system configuration.
- Supporting implementation of the monitoring roadmap to enhance monitoring in line with requirements, policies and standards to govern all activities and outputs.
- Supporting design and development of automated monitoring processes, using a variety of the latest SIEM (Security Information and Event Management) and network analysis tools, techniques and procedures to detect malicious activity, help to ensure continuous improvement through dashboard monitoring or retrospective assessment.
- Assisting in managing vulnerabilities and help to undertake remediation. Continuously seeking to identify potential service and process improvements, working to increase your knowledge of industry best practices, good judgement and problem-solving skills to execute security operations and investigations.
This role attracts a 37.75% salary uplift on top of the base salary stated for Annualised Hours Working, as analysts work as part of the 24/7 shift teams in the Cyber Security Operations Centre (CSOC). This is a non-guaranteed uplift and will only be applied where Annualised Hours Working takes place.
This is a shift-based role which involves working from 07:00-19:00 (Days) and 19:00-07:00 (Nights) on a 4 on / 4 off basis. Due to business requirements, this role is only available full-time.
Working Arrangements
Successful candidates will be expected to work from the Soapworks office should their day shift fall on a weekday, however this excludes bank holidays and weekends in which home working has been agreed. All night shifts (irrespective of day of the week) will be worked from home.
Successful candidates will be able to obtain further information from their line manager.
Recruitment and Retention Allowance
This post is eligible for a DDaT Recruitment Retention Allowance of up to £5,000, which will be assessed at interview. This allowance is subject to an initial review within six months of taking up the post and thereafter an annual review in line with the departmental priorities and could be reduced or withdrawn at any time.
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