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# Senior Cyber Defence Analyst/ Blue Team Analyst

- **Company:** Harrington Starr
- **Location:** Greater London, UK
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Cloud Computing Security, Identity and Access Management, Intrusion Detection and Prevention, Security Information and Event Management, Cyber Threat Analysis, Cybercrime, Blue Team (Cyber Security)
- **Published:** September 8, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.collegerecruiter.com/job/2840626141-senior-cyber-defence-analyst-blue-team-analyst

## About the Role

* A proven track record in a similar blue team\ cyber defence role
 * An offensive security mindset
 * Email gateway security roles
 * Experience of Endpoint protection platforms
 * Experience of working with and ideally some experience of fine tuning a SIEM solution
 * Experiencer of identity and access management and cloud security architectures highly desirable
 * Any industry certs - CISSP, OSCP, SANS desirable

## Description

Harrington Starr are seeking a Cyber Threat Operations and Defence Specialist for a tier one bank in their EMEA hub, which will form part of a wider global team. The role is based in London (city) with a hybrid model on offer

This role will suit a pro-active blue teamer who will work on incident management/ investigations, threat hunting along with elements of Security Engineering. It will also suit a technically ambitious individual who enjoys challenging themselves and will give the successful candidate the opportunity to part of a highly talented with a huge investment in to cyber both from a resource and tooling perspective.

Key tasks will include:

 * Incident triage - including high priority and complex investigations.
 * Threat hunting and proactively seeking out suspicious activities and threats.
 * Analysis of attacks and trends.
 * Presenting detailed analysis of attacks to stakeholders.
 * Threat detection including SIEM use detection cases, and analysing data from the SIEM.
 * Utilising all amiable tooling
 * Staying abreast of new attacker techniques and industry trends


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