Information Security Analyst, Starling Bank

• Strong communication and interpersonal skills including the ability to explain complex security concepts to technical and non-technical audiences
• Understanding of cyber security controls within networking environments such as DNS, TLS, and SaaS technologies
• Design, development (including scripting and configuration) and continuous improvement of security solutions
• Champion efforts to secure business processes and data through collaboration
• Control effectiveness assessment and continuous improvement
• Security principles including privileged access, role based access technologies and approaches
• Innovation mindset
• Enjoy problem solving
• Be self motivated and want to continue to learn and develop and challenge
• The ability to analyse data to support decisions, policies and principles
• Cyber risk assessment, quantification and treatment

Desirable

• The Data Security team at Starling Bank is growing! We are a newly formed team with a mandate to identify, manage, and remediate data security risks across the organisation. This role will play a pivotal role in safeguarding our data and infrastructure from cyber attacks
• This role offers a unique opportunity to be at the forefront of protecting the financial interests of our clients and the integrity of our systems. If you are passionate about cyber security and thrive in collaborative environments, we would like to hear from you!
• Security Tooling - Deploy, manage, and optimise security tools including network monitoring, email security, data loss prevention, and user entity and behavioural analytic solutions
• Risk Assessment - Conduct regular security assessments and reviews to identify potential risks
• Identification, quantification and response to identified cyber security risks across the organisation
• Security Projects - Participate in the delivery of the security strategy by developing and improving security processes and procedures aligned to industry best practices
• Operational Improvement - Identify and engage with areas for automation or optimisation in daily workflows that will scale
• Collaboration - Work closely with other Security and Technology teams to ensure security measures are aligned with business and strategic objectives

• Interviewing is a two way process and we want you to have the time and opportunity to get to know us, as much as we are getting to know you! Our interviews are conversational and we want to get the best from you, so come with questions and be curious. In general you can expect the below, following a chat with one of our Talent Team:
• Overall personality and general interview - Infosec Data Security Team Lead
• Role based competency - Data Security Security team
• Final Interview - Infosec Leadership

• Time off: 25 days holiday, plus your birthday as an extra freebie. You can also opt out of bank holidays and take them when works for you!
• Health insurance: Private health insurance with Vitality Health, one of the UK's leading private medical insurers
• Pension scheme
• Paid volunteering leave: We encourage all our employees to give back. You can take up to 16 hours paid leave a year, specifically to help causes meaningful to you
• Gym & cycle to work schemes: We offer discounted gym memberships and cycle to work schemes through salary sacrifice
• Perkbox: For a wide range of retail, entertainment and leisure discounts (as well as cash back) at a huge variety of businesses

Total funding: $1.1bn

Starling started life focused on consumer banking, it has since found most of its success by competing in the business banking space. Its caught up with Tide and beaten the likes of Monzo and Revolut to a more complete offering for businesses.