Infrastructure Security Analyst

Legal & General (L&G) is a leading UK financial services group and major global investor. We’ve been safeguarding people’s financial futures since 1836, striving to build a better society while improving the lives of our customers and creating value for shareholders. As one of the world’s largest asset managers, we provide powerful asset origination capabilities that underpin our retirement and protection solutions, including pension risk transfer, UK and US life insurance, and UK workplace pensions and retirement income. Our Group Functions deliver the services that all areas of the business need, enabling everyone at L&G to do what they do best.

Job Description

We have an incredible opportunity for an Infrastructure Security Analyst to join in either London or Hove!

Responsibilities

• Analyzing data from and identifying security improvements to other infrastructure security components such as Web Application Firewalls, IDS/IPS, Web Filters, E‑Mail Security, and DLP, and making recommendations to improve configuration/design.
• Conducting firewall configuration security reviews; analysing configuration and logs from firewalls and related networking devices to identify opportunities for security improvements in configuration and design. This involves understanding the environment, collaborating with relevant technical and application teams, and making recommendations for changes, facilitating their implementation with SMEs.
• Supporting the maintenance of the firewall and network assurance application; task monitoring of configuration, data collection, and analysis jobs.
• Assisting the Vulnerability Manager in the identification, prioritisation and remediation of security vulnerabilities across the L&G group.
• Supporting team mailboxes and queues; contributing to the management of the team’s support queues, providing first‑line support of tickets and queries.
• Keeping up to date on threat actor approaches and methods, and making recommendations to detect and defend against these activities.

Qualifications

• Strong understanding of firewall and related network security technologies.
• Strong understanding of networks and network protocols and the risk posed by related security vulnerabilities.
• Knowledge/experience in information protection, data leakage protection, and cloud security.
• Knowledge of the threat landscape, particularly exploited vulnerabilities.
• Prior industry experience relevant to this role covering firewall assurance and network security, preferably using relevant security frameworks and tooling.
• Experience with vulnerability management and vulnerability scanning tools is a huge plus.
• Experience in managing complex stakeholder relationships.
• Relevant certifications and/or accreditations (CISSP, CISM, etc.) are a plus.

Benefits

• The opportunity to participate in our annual performance‑related bonus plan and valuable share schemes.
• Generous pension contribution.
• Life assurance.
• Healthcare plan (permanent employees only).
• At least 25 days holiday, plus public holidays, 26 days after 2 years’ service, with option to buy and sell holiday.
• Competitive family leave.
• Participation in our electric car scheme, which offers employees the option to hire a brand‑new electric car through tax‑efficient salary sacrifice (permanent employees only).
• Many discounts for our own products and for a range of high‑street stores and online.
• Workspaces designed for collaboration and wellbeing.

Additional Information

At L&G, we believe it is possible to generate positive returns today while helping to build a better future for all. If you join us, you’ll be part of a welcoming, inclusive culture, with opportunities to collaborate with people of diverse backgrounds, views, and experiences. We are guided by leaders with integrity who care about your future and wellbeing and empower you through initiatives that support career development and excellence.

We care passionately about outcomes rather than attendance and are therefore open to discussing flexible working options, including part‑time, term‑time and job shares. Although some roles have limited flexibility due to customer demand, we accommodate requests when we can.

It doesn’t matter if you don’t meet every single criterion in this advert. Think about what you excel at and what else you can bring in terms of strengths, potential and connection to our purpose.

Seniority level: Not Applicable

Employment type: Full‑time

Job function: Finance