Senior SecOps Analyst

Company Description

6point6 cyber practice is a fast-growing community of industry leading experts. The practice covers Assurance, Compliance, Security Operations, Offensive Security and Security Research. It is critical that the relevance and quality of the services that 6point6 provides is maintained and augmented and that the team members have every opportunity to grow and learn with the organisation.

As part of our blue team you’ll use the latest intelligence and tooling to analyse information systems to ensure effective incident detection and response.

Job Description

Due to the nature of the client engagements, every employee needs to be able to achieve Security Clearance. This means that you need to have the right to take up employment within the UK, do not have or require any visa to work, and have been resident in the UK for at least 5 years without any gap(s) totalling more than 6 months.

As an employer we believe in facilitating a flexible work pattern whilst taking into consideration operational requirements,  client and individual needs. We are proud of our hybrid work pattern that typically sees employees in the office for a minimum of 2 days per week. 

You should be able to easily commute to our London r office.  For some roles/projects, travel to the clients offices will be required and the frequency is often determined by the client.

Diversity, equity and inclusion are integral to the success of 6point6. We welcome applicants with different perspectives, skills, life experiences and backgrounds, and are proud to have an organisational culture where employees can bring their authentic selves to work.

Key responsibilities of the role are summarised below:

• Incident response and management
• Playbook and process amendment and building
• Monitoring and alerting creation and improvements
• Business as usual tasks such as alert monitoring and responding to customer requests and queries
• Change approval and reviews
• Threat intelligence gathering, vulnerability scanning, management and reporting
• Identification and reporting of risks and vulnerabilities as part of business-as-usual operations
• Assisting in the definition and management of requirements and improvement options for projects
• Documentation and process reviews
• SIEM migration work
• Running workshops - threat modelling, log selection, use case generation, tabletop exercises

Qualifications

Qualifications

The successful candidate will have experience in:

• Writing alerts
• Creating dashboards, reports, and playbooks
• Use case generation
• Incident response
• Threat hunting
• Threat intelligence
• SIEM /Monitoring experience using – Splunk, Sentinel, Kibana, AWS Guard Duty, Microsoft Azure Security Center, Microsoft Defender ATP
• Malware analysis 
• Digital Forensics
• Scripting experience

As a technology consultancy, we look for people who can deliver both exceptional technical solutions and work as true partners to the organisations we support. To do this you must be able to:

Communicate effectively verbally and in writing, demonstrated through:

• Effectively explain complex technical solutions to a non-technical audience
• Writing meaningfully to deliver clear information, and guidance
• Giving impactful presentations, articulating clearly key points

Demonstrate critical thinking by:

• Analysing and evaluating information
• Using information gathered to present solutions and reach decisions
• Displaying familiarity and comfort with a breadth of technologies (appropriate to the level of the role) and an appreciation of how they can be combined and applied to solve customer problems.

Work in partnership with others to:

• Effectively manage both internal and external stakeholders to ensure synergy
• Collaborate meaningfully with all parties to ensure outcomes are reached effectively

Whilst having experience in a consultancy is beneficial, demonstrable experience in working with clients/external partners in other settings will always be considered.

During your career with us, we actively encourage and support employees to continually upskill and develop their skills and knowledge.

Additional Information

Who are 6point6? 

Founded in 2012, 6point6 drives the right change in every organisation through the positive impact of technology. Leading with strategy, architecture, and design, we connect cloud, data, and cyber to engineer and deliver large-scale, complex transformations across public and private sectors. 

We help organisations realise the value of their business strategy, allowing them to engage in a more meaningful way with their end customers. Our clients work with us because they know for us it’s never just about the project at hand. It’s about creating lasting partnerships built on trust and enabling their long-term success.

We are a growing privately owned company, with offices in central London and Manchester.

Why 6point6?

6point6 strives to create and maintain a work environment in which people are treated with dignity, decency and respect.  We champion diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.  A number of employee-led groups work with us to create a unique, fun and fulfilling environment that contributes positively to our culture and our corporate social responsibility commitments.

We are fully committed to hiring, developing and retaining the best people and operate a zero tolerance culture towards any discrimination.

Irrespective of your needs, and no matter how small, please let the Recruitment Team know if there are any ways that we can support you during the hiring process. 

Benefits at 6point6 

From health and wellness to lifestyle and finances, we have your best interests at heart.

We offer a competitive salary and benefits package that includes all the standard offerings you’d expect like company bonus plan, pension, private medical, life assurance and income protection. Employee wellbeing is also of the utmost importance to us and we have many benefits supporting wellbeing such as an employee assistance programme, life coaching, a workplace nursery scheme, an electric car scheme and a cycle to work scheme with bike storage.

Our Values 

Our people shape our culture and our values are embedded into everything we do.

HUMAN: We celebrate our differences and bring our authentic selves to work. We are one, inclusive, team.

DEDICATED: We are dedicated to each other, our clients and to our profession. We care.

HONEST: We embrace transparency, act with integrity and encourage everyone to speak openly.

BRAVE: We empower each other to make bold decisions, to take ownership and to challenge with respect.

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