Cyber Security Apprentice

Here’s what you’ll be doing:

When you join Simply Business, you'll help protect us from threat actors who try and make it past our cyber defences. This is a hands-on technical position where you will play an important role in the day to day operations and development of our Security Operations Centre (SOC). 
We are looking for two Cyber Security Apprentices to help protect us from threat actors who try and make it past our cyber defences. A Security Operations Defend & Respond Apprentice and a Security Engineer Apprentice.
You’ll need a strong drive and willingness for learning and growth. You will be in a rapidly evolving environment that will bring new challenges and opportunities for growth on a regular basis and be empowered to develop and explore your unique passions in Cyber Security.
You will be reporting into Laura the Security Operations Lead, and working alongside an award winning team of 5 other analysts, a threat intelligence lead and 2 engineers with a diverse set of technical skills and backgrounds within cyber security.

Security Operations Defend & Respond Apprentice

• Responsibilities include:
Monitor our networks to spot both active and emerging threats.Monitor our endpoints to combat malicious activity.Identify anomalous behaviour and triage incidents and alerts accordingly.Work directly with a team of Cyber Security Analysts and Engineers to investigate issues and escalate incidents.Facilitate Vulnerability Management, identifying vulnerabilities in our infrastructure and coordinating remediation efforts with our IT Teams.Participate in incident response, collaborating within the business to see security incidents through their full lifecycle.Help us to tune our security tools and automate our manual processes to make our SOC more efficient.Research, evaluate and assess emerging cybersecurity threats, trends, tools and capabilities.Participate in security-focused sessions (presentations, tabletops, and CTFs).

Security Engineer Apprentice

• Responsibilities include:
Help us to develop our security tooling to improve our detections of both active and emerging threats.Work with our IT teams to maintain compliance of our endpoints to prevent malicious activity.Work directly with a team of Cyber Security Analysts and Engineers to investigate issues and escalate incidents.Facilitate Vulnerability Management for our Cloud Environment, looking for any misconfigurations or vulnerabilities and liaising with our DevOps teams to resolve.Help us to tune our security tools and automate our manual processes to make our SOC more efficient.Research, evaluate and assess emerging cybersecurity threats, trends, tools and capabilities.Participate in security-focused sessions (presentations, tabletops, and CTFs).

Skills we need (both roles):

• Demonstrable passion for Cyber Security.
• Good understanding of security fundamentals.
• Understanding of computer networks and their core components.
• Willingness to learn and ability to demonstrate it through previous roles or academic study.
• Time management skills, to manage your apprenticeship work alongside your role.
• Ability to communicate effectively with non-technical and technical people.
• Knowledge of Information Security issues and trends.
• Knowledge of Cloud Technologies

(We know it’s tough, but please try to avoid the ​​confidence gap​.​​ You don’t have to match all the bullet points above to be considered for this role.)
Ready to join us and help us elevate our security practices? Apply today.

About Simply Business
We insure small businesses and enable big dreams – not just for our customers, but for our people and communities too. With over 1,000,000 active insurance policies, we protect builders, bakers, landlords and more than 1,200 other trades.
We’re a technology company as well as one that sells insurance. That means we build, we fail, we learn and we improve. We’re a B Corp too, which recognises our strong track record of having a positive impact on people, society and the environment.
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What are the benefits of working at Simply Business?
We offer a great work-life balance where every team member has a manageable workload and the flexibility to work hybrid. 
On top of the 25 days annual leave (plus bank holidays), we offer leave that suits your needs. Plus the option to buy five more days of holiday with your flexible benefits. 
Our flexible parental leave allows you to approach an important time how you want – with six months full pay to the primary caregiver and four weeks full pay if you’re the secondary caregiver.
Our life event leave is an extra days leave every two years for those big moments in your life like moving house or your birthday. And as a thank you to our long-serving employees we offer a two week paid sabbatical after five years of service, then four weeks off after ten years of service.
And our core benefits can put your mind at ease with private medical insurance through BUPA, that covers any pre-existing condition. And a health cash plan that covers your everyday medical expenses.
We also make sure you’re compensated fairly with a competitive salary based on your experience and the market we’re in. Plus the potential to earn an annual bonus based on performance.
There’s access to the tools to support your personal development with programmes on our dedicated learning platform. As well as support for your mental health with access to counselling. 
We’ll match what you put into your pension up to five per cent. And pass on a tax-free sum that’s four times your basic salary with our life assurance policy, with the option to increase it to ten times through our flexible benefit scheme
Our salary sacrifice car scheme gives you the option to buy a brand new, fully insured, and maintained car for a convenient fixed monthly amount taken from your gross salary (after 6 months service).
And our flexible benefits scheme gives you an allocated amount to use each year on benefits like critical illness cover, dental insurance, travel insurance, or a gym membership.
Ready to join us and drive our success as a high-performing team? Apply today.