Location

Newport (South Wales)

Salary

£41,446 - £47,365

Contract

Permanent (Full Time)

Closing date

28th April 2025

Working hours

37 hours Monday to Friday

Who are we?

We are a gas distribution business that services the gas infrastructure across Wales and the south-west of England. We serve our customers and communities with safe, reliable, and affordable energy services whilst investing to create a sustainable future to deliver our carbon-free vision for 2050.

What we 're looking for?

We’re looking for a Cyber Security Analyst to work with the cyber resilience team and assist with the delivery of enterprise-wide Security Operations function including EDR, SIEM, Vulnerability scanning, gathering security control framework evidence and general day to day assistance with security tasks and incidents.

We 'll trust you to:

• Work with the Cyber Security Team to provide resilience to our threat monitoring and response capabilities.
• Handle security incident response with internal teams and other third parties to ensure that incident response lifecycle is undertaken to a high standard.
• Monitor and respond to security incidents, alerts and breaches.
• Gather evidence to support security control audits to support testing and assurance around the adequacy of controls

You 'll need to have:

• Good knowledge and understanding of SOC processes and procedures.
• Basic experience using SIEM systems such as MS Sentinel, LogRhythm, AlienVault, Splunk.
• Good knowledge and awareness of global Information Security Standards including ISO27002, CIS, NCSE CAF, NIST CSF.
• Basic knowledge and experience using leading endpoint detection and threat management products, and managing their operation.
• CompTIA Sec +

The following is also desirable:

• GIAC
• CEH
• AZ-900
• SC-900
• SC-200
• SIEM certification
• Blue Team Level 1

We would also love to hear about anything else you feel you could add or bring to the role!

As we are a safety critical organisation, all offers of employment are subject to pre-employment drug & alcohol screening.

What 's in it for you?

• A competitive salary starting at £41,446 rising to £47,365
• Hybrid working
• Flexible working opportunities
• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays which can be tailored to celebrations that reflect your beliefs
• Retirement Savings Plan (pension) with Aviva: 5% employee contribution, with WWU doubling your contribution at 10% - totalling 15%
• 14 x salary Life Insurance linked to membership of the Retirement Savings Plan
• “Choices” flexible benefit scheme options including corporate gym memberships, dental insurance, and health cash-plans
• Access to our Financial Wellbeing Programme - allowing you to manage your benefits flexibly to suit your financial needs
• Enhanced pay for parental leave
• Retail discounts and cashback scheme
• Friends & Family Discount for Three Mobile and Broadband
• Colleague recognition including Annual Celebrating Excellence Awards
• Living Wage Accredited Employer
• Award winning employer for ‘Outstanding Contribution to Workplace Health and Wellbeing’ and leading the industry in championing equality, diversity and inclusion
• Annual salary review
• Discretionary annual bonus
• Company Sick Pay
• In-house Occupational Health Team
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Comprehensive training

The way we do things

Our Ambition, Priorities and Values inform everything we do as a business - from our strategic planning to the performance management of our colleagues. Our values underpin everything we do and we are committed to creating a working environment that supports and fosters diversity, inclusion and equity, where all of our colleagues feel valued and supported to contribute to their full potential.

We are focused on creating a culture where it doesn’t matter about gender, race, sexuality or disability; it’s about our colleagues’ skills, the way we do things and how we live our values.

Interested?

If you would prefer to complete your application form in an alternative format such as Microsoft Word or would like to discuss the role in a little more detail, please contact us at recruitment@wwutilities.co.uk or on 07971 038 982.

You can also ask us about flexible working practices that may be available or tell us if you have any special requirements during the application process.