Cyber Security Analyst

This is an exciting opportunity for someone with threat hunting and incident response experience to join our team to help drive and maintain a critical cyber service for Aviva, and in doing so protect our customers.

A bit about the job:

This role is responsible to conduct threat hunts to enable us to detect and respond to malicious behaviours and anomalous activity across a diverse set of infrastructures/platforms, utilising leading security tools using your own research and input from other teams within Aviva.

You will also be responsible to support incident response activities escalated to Tier 3 and engage with security teams and business stakeholders to help mitigate risk and ensure that Aviva's customers are appropriately protected, operating as part of a 24/7 out of hours on call rota.

Skills and experience we’re looking for:

• Demonstrable experience in triaging incidents and going through the incident response lifecycle.
• Have conducted threat hunts using your understanding of the current threat landscape and methodologies used by attackers.
• Experience of creating custom detections or correlations rules in SIEM platforms and EDR tools
• Ability to query logs and manipulate data in a variety of formats across different platforms.
• Experience in programming/scripting (Python, PowerShell, KQL etc) desirable. 

What you’ll get for this role:

Our purpose - with you today, for a better tomorrow – is a promise we make to our colleagues too. And one of the ways we live up to that promise is by investing in you. We have so much to offer when it comes to being an Aviva colleague.

• Annual salary: Up to £40,000 (location, skills, experience, and qualifications)
• Bonus opportunity of 8% of annual salary (actual amount depends on your performance and Aviva’s)
• Generous pension scheme - Aviva will contribute up to 14%, depending on what you put in.
• 29 days holiday plus bank holidays, and you can choose to buy or sell up to 5 days.
• Make your money go further - Up to 40% discount on Aviva products, and other retailer discounts.
• Up to £1,200 of free Aviva shares per year through our Matching Share Plan and share in the success of Aviva with our Save As You Earn scheme.
• Brilliantly supportive policies including parental and carer’s leave.
• Flexible benefits to suit you, including sustainability options such as cycle to work.
• Make a difference, be part of our Aviva Communities and use your 3 paid volunteering days to help others
• We take your wellbeing seriously with lots of support and tools.

Aviva is for everyone:

We are inclusive and welcome everyone – we want applications from people with diverse backgrounds and experiences.

Excited but not sure you tick every box? Research tells us that women, particularly, feel this way. So, regardless of gender, why not apply. And if you’re in a job share just apply as a pair.

We flex locations, hours and working patterns to suit our customers, business, and you. Most of our people are smart working –spending around 50% of their time in our offices every week - combining the benefits of flexibility with time together with colleagues.