Join us at Barclays as a Lead Cyber Operations Analyst, where you’ll play a key role in strengthening our cyber containment capabilities and supporting our transition to a more advanced Cyber Operations model. In this senior role, you’ll coordinate complex bank‑wide activities, guide critical testing efforts, and help protect the organisation against an evolving threat landscape, including participating in on‑call support.
To be successful as a Lead Cyber Operations Analyst, you should have experience with:
- Strong hands‑on experience in Cyber Security Incident Response or Cyber Operations.
- Deep technical expertise in one or more IR‑relevant domains (e.g. SOC operations, malware analysis, endpoint detection, network security, cloud security).
- Proven ability to operate calmly and decisively in high‑pressure, time‑critical situations.
- Good knowledge of security toolsets.
- Prior experience with scripting languages & proficiency in data analysis.
- Excellent inter-personal skills with experience of briefing, de-briefing and presenting to senior executives and having effective listening skills.
- Strong understanding of cyber risk, controls, and security governance.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
Some Other Highly Valued Skills May Include
- Familiarity with Financial Services regulatory landscape and related compliance issues
- Proficiency in SIEM technologies & usability in a Large & Complex Computing Environment.
- Analysis and response of detected security incidents, timely escalation and drive to ensure the closure of incidents.
- Incident Response skills including proficiency in PCAP Capture, Network Analysis, and Traffic Patterns.
You may be assessed on the key critical skills relevant for success in role, such as risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen strategic thinking and digital and technology, as well as job-specific technical skills.
This role is based in Knutsford.
Purpose of the role
To monitor the performance of operational controls, implement and manage security controls and consider lessons learnt in order to protect the bank from potential cyber-attacks and respond to threats.
Accountabilities
- Management of security monitoring systems, including intrusive prevention and detection systems, to alert, detect and block potential cyber security incidents, and provide a prompt response to restore normal operations with minimised system damage.
- Identification of emerging cyber security threats, attack techniques and technologies to detect/prevent incidents, and collaborate with networks and conferences to gain industry knowledge and expertise.
- Management and analysis of security information and event management systems to collect, correlate and analyse security logs, events and alerts/potential threats.
- Triage of data loss prevention alerts to identify and prevent sensitive data for being exfiltrated from the banks network.
- Management of cyber security incidents including remediation & driving to closure.
Vice President Expectations
- To contribute or set strategy, drive requirements and make recommendations for change. Plan resources, budgets, and policies; manage and maintain policies/ processes; deliver continuous improvements and escalate breaches of policies/procedures..
- If managing a team, they define jobs and responsibilities, planning for the department’s future needs and operations, counselling employees on performance and contributing to employee pay decisions/changes. They may also lead a number of specialists to influence the operations of a department, in alignment with strategic as well as tactical priorities, while balancing short and long term goals and ensuring that budgets and schedules meet corporate requirements..
- If the position has leadership responsibilities, People Leaders are expected to demonstrate a clear set of leadership behaviours to create an environment for colleagues to thrive and deliver to a consistently excellent standard. The four LEAD behaviours are: L – Listen and be authentic, E – Energise and inspire, A – Align across the enterprise, D – Develop others..
- OR for an individual contributor, they will be a subject matter expert within own discipline and will guide technical direction. They will lead collaborative, multi-year assignments and guide team members through structured assignments, identify the need for the inclusion of other areas of specialisation to complete assignments. They will train, guide and coach less experienced specialists and provide information affecting long term profits, organisational risks and strategic decisions..
- Advise key stakeholders, including functional leadership teams and senior management on functional and cross functional areas of impact and alignment.
- Manage and mitigate risks through assessment, in support of the control and governance agenda.
- Demonstrate leadership and accountability for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work your team does.
- Demonstrate comprehensive understanding of the organisation functions to contribute to achieving the goals of the business.
- Collaborate with other areas of work, for business aligned support areas to keep up to speed with business activity and the business strategies.
- Create solutions based on sophisticated analytical thought comparing and selecting complex alternatives. In-depth analysis with interpretative thinking will be required to define problems and develop innovative solutions.
- Adopt and include the outcomes of extensive research in problem solving processes.
- Seek out, build and maintain trusting relationships and partnerships with internal and external stakeholders in order to accomplish key business objectives, using influencing and negotiating skills to achieve outcomes.
All colleagues will be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Values of Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence and Stewardship – our moral compass, helping us do what we believe is right. They will also be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Mindset – to Empower, Challenge and Drive – the operating manual for how we behave.