Overview

SOC Principal Analyst role at QBE Europe. London/Hybrid. Permanent, Full-time.

The Opportunity

QBE Europe is recruiting a SOC Principal Analyst to join our cyber security team in our London Office. The role reports to regional team leads and is a key member of the Global Security Operations team.

Your new role

This is a hands-on technical role in which the specialist will use security skills to perform advanced analysis on the collection of cyber threats using proactive and reactive threat hunting methods, classifying, analysing, prioritising and remediating security alerts/events. The focus is to provide proactive and highly technical analytical response to cyber security incidents to prevent compromise by modern attack methods.

Responsibilities

• Act as point of escalation and mentor to junior SOC analysts.


• Translate business objectives into security objectives by providing support in design/architecture for new security applications to improve the current security posture globally for QBE.


• Recommend and implement initiatives, develop IR processes and procedures.


• Contribute to the ongoing development of security operations “best practice” and support continuous improvement.


• Provide guidance regarding security technical support, and influence peers in following best practice.


• Review new security products and ascertain their suitability for the QBE environment.


• Execute threat hunting activities using various proprietary and open source tools to identify current and emerging threats that pose a risk to QBE.


• Build strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders to maintain and improve QBE security and enhance knowledge and information sharing.


• Actively communicate with staff and third parties to correctly identify and resolve problems and manage expectations.


• Document incidents, requests and problem management information to ensure required compliance standards/SLAs are achieved.


• Use security tools and resources to correlate suspicious events, provide context, determine root cause and recommend modifications to existing systems and procedures.


• Perform deep-dive incident analysis of various data sources by analysing security logs against medium-term threats and IOCs.


• Actively manage and apply the phases of Incident Response (preparation, identification, containment, eradication, recovery and lessons learned).


• Act as a point of reference to guide and advise others to ensure knowledge sharing and best practice throughout the team.

About You

• Advanced technical expertise of security solutions and technologies, including Windows, Linux, Networking, Security Architecture, packet flow/TCP/UDP, Firewall and proxy technologies, cloud solutions, anti-virus, static and dynamic malware analysis techniques.


• Expert in performing analytics with different types of logs (network, Active Directory, database, DNS, firewall, proxies, host-based security, cloud and application logs).


• Experience leading security incidents at all levels related to incident response.


• Experience managing 2nd/3rd level security events.


• Ability to manage relationships with global security operations colleagues and other departments, including network teams and incident managers.


• Demonstrated ability to make decisions on remediation and counter measures.


• Effective communication with senior stakeholders globally.

Why QBE? At My Best

QBE offers wellbeing initiatives and benefits to support flexible working and a healthy work-life balance. The company emphasizes inclusion, diversity and sustainability, with flexible working options and a range of benefits as part of the reward package. For more information, visit the Careers page.

What next?

If you have a passion to contribute to QBE’s vision of enabling a more resilient future, apply by submitting your CV via the Apply button. A Talent Acquisition representative will contact you if you meet the role requirements.

Equal Employment Opportunity: QBE is an equal opportunity employer and complies with all applicable equal employment opportunity legislation.