Overview
Cyber Security Analyst - Threat Hunting role at NHS England. The Cyber Operations purpose is to support safe care and build public trust by building NHS England’s cyber resilience and enabling the wider health system to be cyber resilient, supporting Transformation Directorate’s purpose of delivering the best care and outcomes for the NHS.
The Cyber Operations Sub-directorate consists of four operational areas: Cyber Security Operations Unit (CSOU); Cyber Delivery Unit (CDU); Cyber Improvement Programme; Chief Information Security Office Function (CISO).
Responsibilities
To support our strategy to improve NHS England’s cyber resilience, we are recruiting for a Cyber Security Analyst who is a Threat Hunting specialist. This role is within the Cyber Security - Threat Hunting team, which is one of three core pillars of the Threat Operations pod within NHS England’s CSOU. The Threat Hunting team is responsible for several key functions:
* Multi-Platform Threat Hunting at Scale – Run hunting queries and analytics across large datasets using a variety of cloud-based and hybrid security solutions.
* Custom Analytic and Detection Development – Writing and reviewing custom rules to deploy against national monitoring solutions to provide specialised monitoring to NHS bodies against common threat actor tactics and techniques.
* Specialist Incident Support – Providing technical support to CSOU IM function and NHS organisations where appropriate during high complexity incidents.
Main Duties
* Threat Hunt in Extended Detection and Response (XDR) and SIEM tooling.
* Deputies for the Cyber Security Senior Analyst (Threat Hunting) in their absence.
* Develop capability in support of Threat Operations requirements, including coding and technology development.
* Act as a technical support in advanced forensic investigations in support of Security Operations function.
* Simulate adversary tactics, techniques, and procedures in support of detection development.
* Perform dynamic and static analysis of malicious programs and tools where relevant in support of detection development.
* Development of automation workflows and playbooks to support threat hunting team workload.
Organisation context
The NHS England Board has set out the top-level purpose for the new organisation to lead the NHS in England to deliver high-quality services for all. This will inform the detailed design work and we will achieve this purpose by enabling local systems and providers to improve the health of their people and patients, reducing health inequalities; making the NHS a great place to work; ensuring the healthcare workforce has the right knowledge, skills, values and behaviours; optimising digital technology, research, and innovation; delivering value for money.
For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Ben Magee, Security Lead (Analyst), Email: england.cyberoperationsrecruitment@nhs.net
Position details
* Seniority level: Entry level
* Employment type: Full-time
* Job function: Information Technology
* Industry: Hospitals and Health Care
Note: Colleagues with a contractual office base are expected to spend, on average, at least 40% of their time working in-person.
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