Junior Information Security Analyst Leeds, England
Job description
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What We'll Bring:
The successful Junior Information Security Analyst will have a technical background and be able to work collaboratively and pragmatically with varied stakeholders. This position is integral to supporting the Information Security and wider security team and will provide fantastic opportunities to work across multiple security disciplines, with huge potential for individual growth and development.What You'll Bring:
About TransUnion:
TransUnion is a global information and insights company which provides solutions that help create economic opportunity, great experiences and personal empowerment for hundreds of millions of people in more than 30 countries. We call this Information for Good®.
TransUnion is a major credit reference agency and we offer specialist services in fraud, identity and risk management, automated decisioning and demographics. We support organisations across a wide variety of sectors including finance, retail, telecommunications, utilities, gaming, government and insurance.
What You'll Bring:
The successful Junior Information Security Analyst will have a technical background and be able to work collaboratively and pragmatically with varied stakeholders. This position is integral to supporting the Information Security and wider security team and will provide fantastic opportunities to work across multiple security disciplines, with huge potential for individual growth and development.
Role Responsibilities:
- Support various stakeholders with security related queries or issues.
- Vulnerability identification and remediation
- Involvement in the evaluation, effectiveness and coverage of security products and tooling to continuously monitor and protect company assets
- Assessing security risks
- Support awareness activities to ensure continuous improvements to the security culture for the organisation
- Support ISO27001, PCI DSS and other internal and external audit programmes
- Support the continuous improvement of security policies and standards
Key Tasks:
Working with project and product teams to provide support and guidance and to ensure compliance with security policy and standards.
Coordinates vulnerability management activities and remediation work with IT teams
Perform security assessments with recommendations to mitigate and reduce risk
Working with technology and security teams, the role will drive initiatives such as vulnerability assessment and penetration testing workstreams
Support the improvement of technical processes to create efficient and secure methodologies
Help to embed a strong security culture within the organisation
Support the management and investigation of security events including post incident reviews in conjunction with other security teams.
Key Skills & Qualifications:
- Educational or technical background in an Information Security discipline or relevant experience.
- Knowledge of vulnerability management.
- Understanding of technical security risks and threats.
- Is passionate for Cyber or Information Security
- Willingness to learn and undertake formal and informal training should it be required
- Ability to grasp high-level technical concepts
- Ability to drive own workload identifying risks and requirements working flexibly where required
Impact You'll Make:
TransUnion - a place to grow:
We know that you may not possess every aspect of the essential and/or desirable skills listed above but if there’s something you can’t tick off, don’t let that put you off applying as we could explore training for you.
What’s In It For you?
At TransUnion you will be joining a friendly, forward thinking global business.
As well as an excellent salary and bonus scheme our benefits package starts with 26 days’ annual leave + bank holidays (increasing with service), a generous contributory pension scheme, private health care and a whole host of other employee lifestyle benefits.
That’s in addition to a variety of physical, mental and financial fitness wellbeing programmes such as lunchtime yoga, boxing classes, mindfulness app access, daily dedicated 'away from keyboard’ time to ensure colleagues take a break and our diversity forums.
Interview & Hiring Process
Most of our recruitment processes are virtual, so you’ll get to know our hiring managers and teams over the phone and through video. If we need you to attend a physical in person interview your recruiter will inform of this.
Reasonable Adjustments
If you require any reasonable adjustments to attend an interview with us please detail this on your application.
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TransUnion Job Title
Analyst, Information Security
