Monitoring and Detection Specialist

Team IT

Location Holborn Office

County Central London

Ref # 23095

Closing Date 03-Jul-2025

We have been named a Top 10 “Most Loved Workplace” for the second year running! At Metro Bank, people come first – our culture is all about bringing the best out in our colleagues, and making sure everyone feels valued, respected, seen and included. We strongly believe in a diverse and inclusive workplace and to find the very best person for the job, we always look across a wide range of diverse communities. We are also all about balance so most of our jobs offer the opportunity for hybrid working built around your role and home life, wherever possible.

What you will do:
 

•    Analyse and triage events from all security tools, ensuring the right actions are taken (further investigations, trigger incidents, flag false positives for fine tuning, etc.)

•    Provide support and analysis during security incident and report compilation in conjunction with the Head of Security Operations

•    Participate in the team on-call and triage rota

•    Manage all other Operational Security incident, request, problem and change tickets that have been logged through the amazing support team or Jira and escalations from the business

•    Be responsible for the day-to-day operations and scalability requirements of production cybersecurity systems, including firewalls, IDS/NBA, NAC, WAF, content filtering, vulnerability management, AV/EDR, SIEM, DLP, CASB, M365/cloud security, and MDM systems

•    Participate and support compliance management, i.e. with external regulatory/governing bodies, internal/external audits, IT risk and other stakeholders, e.g. requirements of GDPR, SWIFT, BACS, Faster Payment, PCI, LINK, ISO27001

•    Contribute to the development and maintenance of security policies, standards, processes, procedures and technical documentation including their implementation, maintenance and compliance

•    Build and maintain effective working relationships across all areas of the business to ensure systems are engineered with security in mind from the outset and they are regularly tested and monitored using relevant tools, ensuring the required standards are achieved

 And... we are a bank so risk is a part of everything we do. We love people who take responsibility, do the right thing for customers, colleagues and Metro Bank and have the ability to call out any concerns.

 

What you will need: 
 

•    Knowledge of financial services industry and asset management 

•    Relevant IT-related experience with an emphasis on information security

•    Wider information security experience, in addition to IT security

•    Strong understanding in application security and technologies

•    Knowledge of OWASP Top 10, SANS Top 20, ISO27001/2 and industry standard security best practice

•    Security event and incident management and analysis experience

•    Experience of industry standard security detection and prevention tools (EDR/SIEM/CASB/Firewalls etc)

•    Experience in conducting cyber table top exercises

•    Good understanding of security frameworks

•    Proven experience in coordinating security and vulnerability Management programs (Regular vulnerability scans)• Understand the risks associated with your job and what that means for you, Metro Bank and all our stakeholders

 Our promise to you…

•    We will make sure that you are well-rewarded by providing you with a competitive salary, discretionary annual bonus, and a wide range of benefits, including generous holiday allowance, attractive pension scheme, healthcare, life assurance, and a number of colleague discounts! 

•    We will give you the training to ensure you succeed in your role and plenty of internal opportunities to progress your career (around 40% of our recruitment comes from internal promotions!).

Important Footnote

Diverse teams really are the best teams. We know that candidates (especially women, research tells us) may be put off applying for a job unless they can tick every box.  We also know that ‘normal’ office hours aren’t always doable, and while we can’t accommodate every flexible working request we are happy to be asked.  So if you are excited about working with us and think you can do much of what we are looking for but aren’t sure if you are 100% there yet… why not give it a whirl? Please note that sometimes we may close a job earlier for applications if we are inundated with amazing candidates.. Good luck!