Base Location: Canary Wharf, London or Watford plus network of 20 offices nationally: www.kpmg88careers.co.uk/experienced-professional/#LeBlender.OfficeLocations
The KPMG Enterprise Wide Technology Enterprise-Wide Technology (EWT) is an internally facing, dedicated team of over 450 technologists and other specialists, focused on keeping technology running seamlessly for everyone in KPMG. The Security Monitoring Team is an important function within Security Operations within EWT. The team play a key role in ensuring that the business IT systems are protected and monitored from cyber threats.
KPMG is one of the world's largest and most respected consultancies. We've supported the UK through times of war and peace, prosperity and recession, political and regulatory upheaval. We've proudly stood beside the institutions and businesses which make the UK what it is.
Why Join KPMG as a Lead Security Monitoring (SOC) Analyst
This team continues to expand and this role has come about through an internal promotion. In the longer term there are good options to move your career in upwards or vertically in to other Infosec teams with who you will liaise with to build knowledge sharing networks.
The team also provide excellent training to develop your Cyber Security expertise.
What will you be doing? This is a key role working with external MSSPs to monitor, analyse, report and cyber security threats and respond accordingly. You will also work with the different internal business capabilities to ensure that security monitoring service is embedded into their systems.
Key Responsibilities
- Act as an escalation point for other security analysts in the SOC, including 3rd party MSSP and co-ordinate the SOC team response.
- Proactively monitor the network security sensors ensuring timely detection, investigation and remediation of potential threats.
- Use the advanced security analytics toolsets to monitor for emerging threat patterns and vulnerabilities, attempted or successful breaches
- Triage and manage incidents, events and queries.
- You will be part of on-call rota for SOC and required to be on-call for one week at a time during a month.
What will you need to do it?
Prior experience working in a Security Operations Centre or Security Monitoring Team.
- Hands on SIEM and EDR tooling experience such as MS Sentinel, Defender Suite etc...
- Experience in end-to-end information security incident management and mitigating and addressing threat vectors including Advanced Persistent Threat (APTs), Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS), Phishing, Malicious Payloads, Malware, etc
- Experience with Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS), Intrusion Prevention Systems (IPS), Web Application, Firewalls, Firewall logs, systems logs, web logs, application logs and Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) systems
- Experience in search query languages such as KQL, OSquery or SPL
- Solid experience of working in Cloud environments such as AWS, Azure, & GCP
- Experience with building threat-based Use Cases using frameworks such as MITRE ATT&CK
Skills we’d love to see/Amazing Extras:
- Information Security and/or Information Technology industry certification (CISSP, SANS GIAC, SC-200, AZ-500 or equivalent)
- Current SC Clearance or be SC Clearable
To discuss this or wider Infosec roles with our recruitment team, all you need to do is apply, create a profile, upload your CV and begin to make your mark with KPMG.
Our Locations:
We are open to talk to Cyber Threat Intelligence talent across the country but our core hubs for this role are:
- London Canary Wharf
- Watford
- Manchester
- Leeds
This position will largely be based from London Canary Wharf
With 20 sites across the UK, we can potentially facilitate office work, working from home, flexible hours, and part-time options. If you have a need for flexibility, please register and discuss this with our team.
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