Threat Discover and Applied Research Glasgow, Scotland
Job description
Threat Discovery & Applied Research Lead
Glasgow
As a Barclays Threat Discovery & Applied Research Lead, you will introduce new capabilities to address discovery, identification, analysis and extrapolation of new and emerging risks and threats using intelligence and close partnerships across Barclays business units to ensure services are secure and resilient. For this role, you will be proactive and highly curious; understanding the business, identifying threats, and supporting the development, implementation, and improvement of security controls and enterprise defensive posture.
Barclays is one of the world's largest and most respected financial institutions, with 329 years of success, quality and innovation behind us. We offer careers that provide endless opportunity – helping millions of individuals and businesses thrive, and creating financial and digital solutions that the world now takes for granted.
We are currently in the early stages of implementing a hybrid working environment, which means that many colleagues spend part of their working hours at home and part in the office, depending on the nature of the role they are in. We’re flexible on how this works and it may continue to change and evolve. Depending on your team, typically this means that colleagues spend a minimum of between 20% to 60% of their time in the office, which could be over a week, a month or a quarter. However, some colleagues may choose to spend more time in the office over a typical period than their role type requires. We also have a flexible working process where, subject to business needs, all colleagues globally are able to request work patterns to reflect their personal circumstances. Please discuss the detail of the working pattern options for the role with the hiring manager.
What will you be doing?
• Supporting, driving and delivering a new Cyber Operations Threat Discovery and Applied Research Team (TDAR) and supporting the wider Cyber Operations function
- Leading significant improvements in Barclays security posture and resilience to enable the organisation to continue to operate in a hostile security environment
- Helping teams to improve their knowledge of how attackers can impact their business lines and enable prediction of potential security risks before they emerge
- Providing greater insight into the threats, risks and potential control gaps to help the Cyber Operations Threat Management function
- Assisting Chief Security Office (CSO) strategy to disrupt and reduce the impact of Cyber and Economic Crime to Barclays and wider society
- Developing improved capability within Cyber Operations and the identification and reporting of potential gaps in technology/service to Resilience functions
- Documenting and aligning on issues and controls gaps to Vulnerability Management for remediation
- Working with CISO teams to assist to close out operational risk issues and develop mitigations to reduce inherent risk to the Bank
• Working experience with a Security Information and Event Monitoring (SIEM) and/or data analytical toolsets
- Experience in the identification, triage, and investigation of security incidents
- Familiarity with large data analysis, data manipulation and provision of insight into disparate data sets
- Awareness of incident investigation combined with a deep understanding of internet-based services and protocols
• Knowledge and understanding of current trends in security and aligned risk areas such as cybercrime, fraud, financial crime
- Familiarity with Cloud technologies
- Expertise in Windows and/or Linux
- Experience of mitigations and countermeasures using enterprise grade security technologies
Where will you be working?
Our new state-of-the-art Campus, right in the heart of Glasgow is a hub of creative collaboration. A place where everyone can bring their true selves to work and reach their full potential. Home to 5,000 of our colleagues, our Tradeston campus will support the community in more ways than one - by creating thousands of new career opportunities and celebrating local artists. A short walk from Central Station on the south of the Clyde, it will be a key location for the Barclays business that will deepen our ties with the city and its communities.
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