Cyber Threat Intelligence Analyst
MI5 - The Security Service
Apply before 11:55 pm on Tuesday 24th September 2024
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Job summary
You’ll receive a starting salary of £48,928* plus other benefits including:
25 Days Annual Leave automatically rising to 30 days after 5 years' service, and an additional 10.5 days public and privilege holidays. Opportunities to be recognised through our employee performance scheme. Personal Learning Budget. Interest-free season ticket loan. Excellent pension scheme. Cycle to work scheme. Paid parental and adoption leave.
* The starting salary for this role is £48,928. This is a role that qualifies for a specialist capability-based pay approach that recognises and rewards cyber technical specialist expertise. Therefore, based on our assessment of skills and experience at interview, you may be eligible for additional skills payment, potentially increasing the salary to between £57,362 and £61,732. To retain the higher salary, you will need to demonstrate and accredit your skills based on our Cyber Technical Framework, within the first year of employment. If you are unable to evidence the required skills, you will be given the opportunity and support to rectify this. If this is not achieved by the end of your first year of employment, it may involve reverting to a lower pay level, within the stated range.
As you develop, grow and maintain your technical skills, you will have the opportunity to progress through a further pay point at this grade. Employees are able to apply for recognition that their skills have reached a higher level at regular intervals, when they and their line manager deem they are ready.
Job description
As a Cyber Threat Intelligence Analyst, you will support MI5’s mission by analysing a variety of data, to both understand and identify malicious cyber activity impacting our national security. It’s a crucial and exciting role, with plenty of support and training, where you’ll get great autonomy, development, and occasional national and international travel.
Open source software is accessible to anyone, meaning cyber threats are increasing every day. And this unique role means you’ll be able to uncover these incidents through complex analysis tasks. Day to day, you’ll work within a team of analysts on technical tasks, including network analysis of indicators, events and topologies and host analysis of operating system artefacts, files and malware.
Creating reports with your findings, you’ll share them with technical and non-technical audiences. You’ll help further enable analysis and automate workflow through programming as well as improve analysis techniques and capability through analytical tradecraft development. And you’ll also get the chance to take on individual projects to improve teamwork.
Person specification
You will have good technical understanding of, and keen interest in, cyber security and networking protocols, and experience of data analysis – including networking forensics or host-based forensics. You will also be extremely curious, always eager to understand the ‘why’ and ‘how’ and be able to acquire and apply new technical skills quickly. You’ll have a keen interest and positive attitude towards continued development of core technical skills.
You’ll be a problem solver, always thinking independently and creatively. You’re a confident planner, able to balance your workload and deliver to agreed deadlines.
Communication skills are key in this role, as you’ll collaborate with a range of people and explain complex information to technical and non-technical audiences.
Benefits
- Learning and development tailored to your role
- An environment with flexible working options
- A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity
- A Civil Service pension with an average employer contribution of 27%
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Selection process details
Our recruitment process is fair, transparent, and based on merit. Here is a brief overview of each stage, in order:
• Application and CV sift.
• Competency Interview.
• Technical interview.
• If successful, you will receive a conditional offer of employment.
Please note, you must successfully pass each stage of the process to progress to the next. Your application may take around 6 - 9 months to process including vetting, so we advise you continue any current employment until you have received your final job offer.
Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.
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Job contact :
- Name : Recruitment
- Email : careers@recruitmentoffice.org.uk
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- Email : careers@recrutimentoffice.org.uk