Lead Cyber Operations Analyst

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.

• 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.

• 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.

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.

• 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.

• 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 elevate 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…