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Lead Cyber Operations Detection Engineer

Knutsford, United Kingdom

Date live: Jun. 27, 2024

Business Area: COO & Functions

Area of Expertise: Operations

Reference Code: 90392125

Contract: Permanent

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Lead Cyber Operations Detection Engineer
Knutsford and Glasgow

As a Barclays Lead Cyber Operations Detection Engineer, you will be accountable for proactive mitigation of Barclays Attack Surface for new and emerging cyber threats. You will work directly alongside the Head of Countermeasures to ensure that sufficient and effective controls are frequently validated and are in place to protect Barclays network defences. This will be the ideal role for someone experienced with development of detective controls and the ability to work within a global team.

Barclays is one of the world's largest and most respected financial institutions, established in 1690, with a legacy of success, quality, and innovation. We offer careers that provide endless opportunity – helping millions of individuals and businesses thrive and creating financial and digital solutions that the world now takes for granted.

At Barclays, we offer a hybrid working experience that blends the positives of working alongside colleagues at our onsite locations, together with working from home. We have a structured approach where colleagues work at an onsite location on fixed, ‘anchor’, days of the week, for a minimum of two days a week or more, as set by the business area (or nearest equivalent if working part-time hours). Please discuss the working pattern requirements for the role you are applying for with the hiring manager. Please note that as we continue to embed our hybrid working environment, we remain in a test and learn phase, which means that working arrangements may be subject to change on reasonable notice to ensure we meet the needs of our business.

What will you be doing?
• Working as part of a multidisciplinary team in the delivery of information security and privacy response services to the global retail and commercial enterprise
• Accounting for workload prioritisation across junior colleagues
• Undertaking the ongoing delivery of detective controls and countermeasures across a range of security tooling
• Providing effective handover of detections into CSOC and ongoing lifecycle management of detections
• Providing operational detection & countermeasure creation support during ongoing incidents
• Validating detection & countermeasure effectiveness using dedicated control posture testing capability
• Assisting with the threat hunting function to defend the Barclays environment from Internet and Insider threats
• Helping in the Purple Team testing efforts aimed at assisting in reducing identified risks via innovative detections, controls & countermeasures

What we’re looking for:
• Solid grasp of the activities required to perform cyber incident response
• Experience in gathering Threat Intelligence & leveraging the Intelligence Lifecycle to defend an organisation
• Prior experience of Threat Hunting within a Corporate Network
• Prior experience in Threat Tracking & Countermeasure Development and working alongside a Corporate Red Team function

Skills that will help you in the role:
• Knowledge of Cyber Kill Chain, Mitre Attack Framework, IDD and Security Operations function
• The ability to identify operational risks and issues in a fast time environment, and take proportionate and appropriate actions
• A good grasp of a Corporate, Physical Security Environment
• Experience in engineering, coding/scripting and automation techniques

Where will you be working?
You will be based in Radbroke, Knutsford. The Barclays Technology Campus just outside Manchester is our tech command centre and a vital strategic powerhouse behind our global operations. The campus is set in a 64 acre self-contained site, in a beautiful green environment and it offers unrivalled facilities for work and for play. We have an onsite gym, as well as outdoor tennis, football and cricket areas, as well as onsite restaurant and coffee shops

Our new state-of-the-art Campus, right in the heart of Glasgow is a hub of creative collaboration. A place where everyone can bring their true selves to work and reach their full potential. Home to 5,000 of our colleagues, our Tradeston campus will support the community in more ways than one - by creating thousands of new career opportunities and celebrating local artists. A short walk from Central Station on the south of the Clyde, it will be a key location for the Barclays business that will deepen our ties with the city and its communities

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