Cyber Security Analyst in Belfast

This is an exciting opportunity to work for a friendly team in an industry leading utility company. You will be joining a team of people who are united in achieving our corporate objectives and who are willing to go the extra mile to deliver excellent service to our customers. As an equal opportunity employer, we welcome applications from all ages and backgrounds.

Key Responsibilities:

• Support the development and ongoing review of the organisation's cyber security strategy and improvement roadmap, aligning priorities to business risk, regulatory requirements and good practice (such as NCSC guidance and ISO 27001).
• Carry out and help coordinate self-assessments against the CAF's four objectives (Managing Security Risk, Protecting Against Cyber Attack, Detecting Cyber Security Events, and Minimising Impact of Incidents) and their underlying principles.
• Identify gaps between current practice and CAF contributing outcomes and help design and implement practical remediation plans.
• Support access management, endpoint, network and cloud security controls, working closely with IT and OT colleagues.
• Help deliver security awareness training, phishing simulations and communications to build a strong security culture.

Essential Qualifications:

• A degree in computer science, cyber security or a related discipline or equivalent professional knowledge gained through substantial relevant professional experience.
• A commitment to ongoing professional development, including working towards recognised security certifications.

Essential Experience:

• Experience in a cyber security, IT security or related technical role.
• Hands-on experience of setting up or configuring basic cyber protection controls, such as endpoint protection, firewalls, multi-factor authentication, patching or backups.
• Experience of supporting security monitoring, vulnerability management or incident response.

Benefits:

• A competitive salary.
• Opportunity to earn an annual on target bonus.
• You will receive 22 days annual leave plus 11 bank holidays (this increases with length of service).
• Hours of work are Monday to Friday (no contractual weekend work).
• Enrollment into the Company pension scheme on commencement and upon meeting qualifying criteria the Company will match your pension contributions up to 6%.
• Life assurance whilst employed by the Company.
• Enrollment into the private medical scheme on meeting eligibility criteria.

Are you someone who:

• Respects diversity and behaves in an inclusive manner.
• Has a can-do attitude.
• Can evolve and adapt quickly.
• Wants to deliver positive change to the customer and communities that we serve.
• Recognises that we can achieve more through teamwork.

If this sounds like you then we definitely want to hear from you!

A little more about us: We were established in 1996 to bring natural gas to the Greater Belfast area of Northern Ireland, where there was previously no natural gas distribution network. Since 1996 local, national and international partnerships have delivered an investment of over £500 million into the Northern Ireland economy and the wider natural gas industry now provides employment to over 2,500 people. We continue to invest in infrastructure that currently has in excess of 262,000 domestic and business customers connected, and continues to grow at around 8,000 new customers each year.