Job Description
Role: Senior Cyber Operations Analyst
Location: London/Manchester/Bristol
Salary: Competitive salary and package dependent on experience
Career Level: Associate Manager
Security Clearance Requirements: Any offer of employment is subject to satisfactory BPSS and SC security clearance, which typically requires 5 years continuous UK address history, usually including no periods of 30 consecutive days or more spent outside of the UK, and a declaration of being a British passport holder with no dual nationality at the point of application.
Our Cyber Practice is a fast-growing community of industry-leading experts. The practice covers Assurance, Compliance, Security Operations (SecOps), Offensive Security, and Security Research. It is critical that the relevance and quality of the services that we provide is maintained and augmented, and that the team members have every opportunity to grow and learn with the organisation.
As part of our Blue Team, you’ll use the latest intelligence and tooling to analyse information systems to ensure effective incident detection and response.
Responsibilities
- Detection engineering – develop, maintain, and enhance security detection content primarily for the Splunk SIEM to enable the detection of threats across diverse platforms (e.g. cloud, endpoints, and networks)
- Collaborate with the extended security team to identify gaps in detection coverage, log ingestion and alerting based on business risks and threats
- Review and improve existing SecOps standards and capabilities, e.g. by highlighting requirements for additional logging, identifying incident or threat trends and detection and business‑as‑usual optimisation opportunities
- Perform security monitoring, review and triage triggered alerts, and suggest improvements (on a rota basis 9 AM to 5:30 PM)
- Respond to and investigate identified cyber security incidents
- Act as a point of escalation for junior analysts, supporting them through mentorship and shadowing
- Operate as a technical subject matter expert on client engagements and be prepared to interact with, and present to, senior stakeholders in a consulting capacity
- Participate in alert testing and incident response tabletop exercises as required
- Remain up to date with latest threat intelligence which may be of interest to our clients
Additional Responsibilities (client dependent)
- Proactive threat hunting and tradecraft development
- Incident response and playbook development
- Change approvals (where applicable)
- Collection and interpretation of different sources of threat intelligence and researching emerging threats and TTPs
- Vulnerability scanning, management and reporting
- Opportunity to operate in a management (within Accenture) and leadership capacity (within client) if this aligns with your personal career goals
Desirable Attributes
- Working knowledge of key threat intelligence concepts such as the Pyramid of Pain, Intelligence Preparation for the Cyber Environment (IPCE), and the Threat Intelligence Lifecycle
- Detection engineering and alert development
- Experience with scripting and programming – e.g. Python, Bash, C/C++, Java
- Core cybersecurity concepts such as network security, cryptography, cloud security, forensics
- Understanding of network protocols and how they can be abused by attackers
- Up-to-date knowledge of the most prevalent APTs and their TTPs
- Knowledge of common analysis techniques associated with Windows and/or Linux
Benefits
In addition to a competitive basic salary, you will have an extensive benefits package including up to 25 days of vacation per year, private medical insurance, and three days leave per year for charitable work of your choice.
Flexibility and mobility are required to deliver this role to provide first‑class services we are known for.
Closing Date for Applications
31 March 2026 (Accenture reserves the right to close the role prior to this date should a suitable applicant be found).
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