Barclays Jobs Near Me – Operations Analyst

About the job

Lead Cyber Operations Analyst

As a Barclays Lead Cyber Operations Analyst, you will join the Global Information Security function. You will use your knowledge and experience to be a leader within a global team who are charged with defending the bank from a range of cyber threats. In this high exposure role, you will be collaborating with colleagues in a multidisciplinary team to support the delivery of information security and privacy response services to the global retail and commercial enterprise.

Barclays is one of the world’s largest and most respected financial institutions, with 329 years of success, quality and innovation behind us. We offer careers that provide endless opportunity – helping millions of individuals and businesses thrive, and creating financial and digital solutions that the world now takes for granted.

We are currently operating in a hybrid working environment, meaning that many colleagues spend part of their working hours at home and part in the office, depending on the nature of the role they are in. Please discuss the detail of the working pattern options for the role with the hiring manager.

What will you be doing?

• Working as part of a multidisciplinary team in the delivery of information security and privacy response services to the global retail and commercial enterprise
• Using a range of monitoring tools (e.g. SIEM), techniques and processes
• Carrying out endpoint detection and response tooling, forensic artefact recovery and analysis
• Using Intelligence Investigations, IOCs management and extrapolate adversary tools, techniques and procedures
• Building threat actor profiles and using Mitre to conduct threat hunting missions
• Creating detection rulesets (e.g. Yara) and configuration of toolsets
• Supporting purple Team testing efforts aimed at assisting in reducing identified risks via innovative detection Validating countermeasure effectiveness using dedicated control

What We’re Looking For

• Bachelor’s Degree and 4 years work experience OR 7 years work experience or equivalent and relevant experience
• Experience in the field of incident response and mitigation, web application security, threat research or intelligence analysis
• Experience in the area of malware analysis, incident response, network security, threat management, cloud security OR threat intelligence
• Willingness to work in an operational environment with occasional on-call support

Skills That Will Help You In The Role

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Outstanding work ethic and a passion for information security
• Demonstrable DevOps initiatives targeting capability uplift and automation in the field of Cyber Defense
• Demonstrable experience in countermeasure creation and deployment in response to evolving threats

Where will you be working?

You will be based in Radbroke, Knutsford. The Barclays Technology Campus just outside Manchester is our tech command centre and a vital strategic powerhouse behind our global operations. The campus is set in a 64-acre self-contained site, in a beautiful green environment and it offers unrivalled facilities for work and for play. We have an onsite gym, as well as outdoor tennis, football and cricket areas, as well as onsite restaurant and coffee shops.