Senior Security Operations Specialist / Security Operations Analyst

Job Title: Senior Security Operations Specialist / Security Operations Analyst

Contract Type: Permanent

Location: Edinburgh or Glasgow or Alderley Park orLondon

Working style: Hybrid 50% home/office based

We currently have a fantastic opportunity for a Senior Security Operations Specialist and a Security Operations Analyst to join our Security Operations Team at Royal London. The role holders will be responsible for evaluating, implementing, and optimising security tools and technologies to enhance the organisation’s security posture. This role ensures that security projects and new solutions are properly assessed, tested, and deployed with minimal disruption to rest of the Security Operations teams. By taking ownership of security tool development and integration, the Senior SO and SO Analyst will help to streamline workflows, improve automation, and enhance detection capabilities, allowing the rest of the Security Operations teams to focus on business-as-usual activities. Additionally, this role plays a key part in assessing proof of value initiatives, ensuring that new technologies meet operational needs before they are introduced into the environment.

About the role

• Work on projects directly affecting the Security Operations
• Foster a collaborative culture to deliver projects
• Gather deliverables from stakeholders leveraging on best practice
• Research and evaluate new, current and emerging technology that are pertinent to Security Monitoring
• Collaborate with the Threat Intelligence team to identify emerging trends
• Conduct proof of values and provide impartial recommendations
• Demonstrate IT Security knowledge through production of security awareness reports
• Understanding of Security Monitoring tooling used in both on premise & cloud environments
• Monitoring of Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) tooling within these environments, using insights from Vulnerability Management and Threat Intelligence teams
• Attendance at Security related events such as Gartner, InfoSec and IP Expo

About you

• Technical security qualifications preferred e.g. GIAC - GCIH, GSEC or equivalent
• Experience of perimeter and host security intrusion techniques, including threat hunting as part of incident response
• Previous experience of working within a regulated environment, ideally the financial services industry
• Knowledge and hands-on experience of security information and event management (SIEM) tools from industry leaders. Splunk and Crowd Strike knowledge preferred.
• Familiar with IPS, WAF, DLP, Identity & Data Management and Network Security technologies
• Familiar with the principles of vulnerability management and application security technologies
• Familiar with audit event collection and reporting toolsets
• Familiar with Identity Governance principles and technologies such as SailPoint

About Royal London

We’re the UK’s largest mutual life, pensions and investment company, offering protection, long-term savings and asset management products and services.   

Our People Promise to our colleagues is that we will all work somewhere inclusive, responsible, enjoyable and fulfilling. This is underpinned by our Spirit of Royal London values; Empowered, Trustworthy, Collaborate, Achieve. 

We've always been proud to reward employees by offering great workplace benefits such as 28 days annual leave in addition to bank holidays, an up to 14% employer matching pension scheme and private medical insurance. You can see all our benefits here - Our Benefits  

Inclusion, diversity and belonging 

We’re an Inclusive employer. We celebrate and value different backgrounds and cultures across Royal London. Our diverse people and perspectives give us a range of skills which are recognised and respected – whatever their background