Location: | Bath |
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Salary: | £38,249 to £45,413 Grade 7, per annum |
Hours: | Full Time |
Contract Type: | Permanent |
Placed On: | 3rd April 2025 |
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Closes: | 17th April 2025 |
Job Ref: | ED12609 |
About the role
The Security Operations Analyst is part of a team responsible for a broad range of cyber security tasks and activities including management and operation of the University’s Security Operations Centre (SOC), operating and applying security controls in line with standard frameworks – ISO 27001, NIST CSF, Cyber Essentials & facilitating risk-based decision making to ensure maintenance of security posture.
You will be responsible for undertaking all aspects of security operations, including responding to and resolving security events and incidents, identifying vulnerabilities, deploying mitigation tactics and escalating where appropriate, safe-guarding sensitive information from unauthorised access and generally maintaining security posture in line with the University’s risk appetite.
Additionally, you will undertake risk assessments and perform horizon scanning ensuring that the University control environment is optimally configured to respond to the latest threats to maintain resilience & continuity of service across key systems, services and infrastructure.
You will be expected to review security processes, systems and capabilities that affect the security of our most critical assets.
You will proactively work with colleagues to identify areas of weakness and exposures and create recommendations for continual improvement.
As appropriate, you will take part in change approval boards, oversee the security elements of delivering new products and services into live University environments and work closely with vendors.
This role is offered on a full-time (36.5 hours per-week) permanent basis.
For an information discussion about the role, please contact:
Martin D.G. Parsons (mp2353@bath.ac.uk) or Neil Toyne (nt569@bath.ac.uk).
Our ideal candidate will have:
What we can offer you:
We consider ourselves to be a university where difference is celebrated, respected and encouraged. We have an excellent international reputation with staff from over 60 different nations and have made a positive commitment towards gender equality and intersectionality receiving a Silver Athena SWAN award. We truly believe that diversity of experience, perspectives, and backgrounds will lead to a better environment for our employees and students, so we encourage applications from all genders, backgrounds, and communities, particularly from under-represented groups, and value the positive impact that will have on the university. We are committed to maintaining a safe and secure environment for our students, staff, and community by reinforcing our Safer Recruitment commitment.
We are very proud to be an autism friendly university and are an accredited Disability Confident Leader; committed to building disability confidence and supporting disabled staff.
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