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Senior Information and Cyber Security Analyst

Employer
University of Southampton
Location
Southampton, United Kingdom
Salary
£39,152 to £49,553
Closing date
May 26, 2021
This is an exceptional time to be joining the University of Southampton Information and Cyber Security team within the University's IT department, iSolutions. The Security team is uniquely placed to advise, support, and defend the University against security threats targeting our staff, students and our research work.

About the Role

To provide specialist expertise on information and cybersecurity in order to defend the University's digital services from cyber-attack. Reporting into the Information and Cyber Security Architect, you'll primarily be working alongside technical colleagues in iSolutions and you'll be responsible for the day to day operational and technical management of information and cybersecurity issues within the University, including responding to security incidents, addressing security vulnerabilities in the Universities digital systems and services, supporting critical IT platforms, monitoring and driving compliance with policies, providing expert advice and guidance on information and cybersecurity issues and building security capability in other teams across the University.

What you'll do
  • You'll be responsible for the overall day-to-day technical and operational management of cyber and information security within the University.
  • Oversee the management of patching, vulnerability analysis, and penetration testing of University IT systems, as well as monitoring our cyber incident response platforms. You'll also help respond to, investigate and resolve cybersecurity incidents.
  • Design, implement and support technical security controls to defend University IT systems (both internally and cloud-hosted) against security threats and to address specific security challenges across the University.
  • Assess security infrastructure, network, and systems design to evaluate and identify security risks, threats, and vulnerabilities of networks, systems, applications, and new technology initiatives and ensure overall system/network security. Conduct assessments of existing and new software deployments, whilst continuously looking at ways to mature our processes and improve the services.
  • Develop the knowledge and capability across the University (including other iSolutions teams) to identify and consider cybersecurity and information management issues within projects and research, education, and operational business as usual activities.
  • Present Security solutions for approval via internal processes such as the Technical Architecture Board (TAG) and Change Advisory Board (CAB).


What you'll bring
  • Experience of information and cybersecurity within a large organisation.
  • Knowledge of current information and cybersecurity issues and opportunities, including knowledge of security frameworks.
  • Experience of with security tooling, particularly within a mixed Windows, Linux, Mac, and Cloud environment.
  • The ability to present your ideas and your specialist area, to a wide and potentially non-technical audience.
  • The integrity required to work with both commercially sensitive and personally identifiable information.


The University of Southampton is a research-driven institution, home to some of the world's leading minds, expanding our knowledge and passing it on to future generations. iSolutions is the University's IT support service whose 230+ staff support the delivery of the University's research and education activities as well as the usual business operations. We would love you to join us and help change the world for the better.

The University of Southampton promotes a healthy work-life balance with generous holiday allowance (30+ days), defined benefit pension, flexi-time and flexible working, generous parental leave and childcare provision. For more information on our benefits, please visit our human resources pages.

We aim to be an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all sections of the community.

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