OT Cyber Security Analyst

This is a fantastic opportunity in an evolving and expanding security operations centre within information management for an OT and Industrial Cyber Security Analyst with a focus on MBDA UKs industrial/manufacturing and overseas networks.

Salary: Up to £55,000 depending on experience

Dynamic (hybrid) working: 2 days a week onsite, where possible depending on workload classification

Security Clearance: British Citizen, or Dual National British.

Restrictions and/or limitations relating to nationality and/or rights to work may apply. As a minimum and after offer stage, all successful candidates will need to undergo HMG Basic Personnel Security Standard checks (BPSS), which are managed by the MBDA Personnel Security Team.

What we can offer you:

• Company bonus: Up to £2,500 (based on company performance and will vary year to year)
• Pension: maximum total (employer and employee) contribution of up to 14%
• Overtime: opportunity for paid overtime
• Flexi Leave: Up to 15 additional days
• Flexible working: We welcome applicants who are looking for flexible working arrangements
• Enhanced parental leave: offers up to 26 weeks for maternity, adoption and shared parental leave -enhancements are available for paternity leave, neonatal leave and fertility testing and treatments
• Facilities: Fantastic site facilities including subsidised meals, free car parking and much more…

The Opportunity:

You'll be supporting one of the Senior SOC Analysts, who is the cyber lead for the Industrial/manufacturing networks, in driving governance and security maturity within a constantly evolving OT cyber environment.

You will assist with delivering physical and cultural change in our Industrial environments and support our vulnerability management team with the tracking and advising of industrial specific vulnerabilities.

Your key objective will be to counter the Cyber Threat to the manufacturing and industrial functions of MBDA UK. Drive a proactive ethos to provide robust threat detection and analysis to senior partners, including gap analysis of cyber security tools, supporting secure business growth and providing SME on cyber security recommendations for new and evolving technology.

This role will have close interaction with the SOC threat detection and CTI teams.  

What we're looking for from you:

• A career background within the cyber security space focussing on OT/Industrial environments. 
• Understanding of Industrial vulnerability management and how it differs from enterprise 
• Experience working with OT/Industrial equipment and common industrial communications protocols. Monitoring, automating and protecting process critical operations
• Knowledge of IT & OT Security Governance frameworks, Standards & best practices, including but not limited to IEC 62443, NIST 2.0, ISO 27001
• Able to utilise Security Information Event Monitoring Tools and/or Network Packet Capture tools within IT/OT environments. 
• Strong analytical experience and mind-set.
• Experience within Defensive Cyber-attack methodologies and frameworks.
• Strong analytical experience and mind-set.
• Experience maturing security tooling through creating advanced queries for watch lists, reporting and alerting between Cyber Security Tools.
• Understanding of Malware capabilities, attack vectors, propagation and impact.
• Good communication skills liaising with the business and suppliers.

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We recognise that everyone is unique, and we encourage you to speak to us should you require any advice, support or adjustments throughout our recruitment process.

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