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TrueLayer • London, United Kingdom

Security Operations Analyst

Employment type:  Full time

1–2 days/week at home

A little flex time

Dog friendly

Job Description

At TrueLayer, we want the financial system to work for everyone — so we've made it our mission to open up access and put fintech at people's fingertips and security is at the foundation of our product.

We are looking for ambitious Security Operations Analysts to shape and mature the Security Operations function at TrueLayer. You will be responsible for identifying existing and emerging threats, vulnerabilities across a wide range of systems and applications; investigating and analysing security events, and responding to incidents.

We aim to empower our engineers with best-in-class technologies and the opportunity to have meaningful impact. You’ll quickly be given hands-on exposure to the latest technologies and practices and entrusted with crucial responsibilities, and will play a key part in our protecting our product as we continue to expand.

Who we are:

At TrueLayer, we’re building a global open banking platform that’s changing how money moves and so much more. We make payments and refunds instant, account data accessible and verification seamless — all so innovators in every industry can build better financial experiences for their users.

To date, we’ve raised $270 million from world-renowned investors including Stripe, Tiger Global, Addition and Tencent. We’ve got offices in London, Milan, Dublin and Sydney. And we’re trusted by industry leaders like Revolut, Cazoo and Trading 212… though we’re not stopping here.

Our vision is a financial system that works for everyone. To make that happen, we’re creating original and innovative products that will remove the friction from finance for good. We’re seriously scaling our infrastructure, we’re entering new territories all the time, we’re cornering a whole new category — and we’d like your help to get us there.

As one of our Security Operation Analysts, you will:

  • Operate and continually improve our security monitoring systems and tools
  • Perform Threat hunting; monitoring for emerging security threats
  • Be a key contact for the management of Security incidents, performing and co-ordinating forensic investigations across multiple teams and systems
  • Develop automated responses and run books to key threats
  • Identify and report weaknesses in security controls
  • Participate as part of the blue team in threat simulation exercises
  • Triage alerts and improve existing detection rules

Requirements

What we need from you:

  • Solid experience using threat intelligence platforms such as VirusTotal to evaluate indicators such as IPs, domains and hashes
  • Good understanding of network forensics (e.g. PCAPs, Netflow)
  • Good understanding of host forensics (e.g. memory analysis, file system analysis) leaning towards OSX and Linux
  • Good understanding of attackers’ and malware methodologies
  • Experience working in a security operations or incident response function and can show a good understanding of the common vulnerabilities affecting modern environments and how to detect them
  • Comfortable using a SIEM
  • Able to keep up with latest threats and translate these threats into preventive measures and IR actions
  • Passionate about championing security best practices in a fast-growing, ambitious startup.

Nice to haves:

  • Previous experience working in a SOC, Threat Research or Incident Response environment
  • Experience investigating breaches on cloud environments
  • Comfortable building scripts and tools to automate tasks (e.g. hash checks against VirusTotal)
  • Experience with Cloud IR and Forensics
  • Previous experience in a high-growth startup, ideally in fintech

Benefits

What you can expect from us:

  • Competitive salary and meaningful equity in the company 💰
  • Flexible hours and hybrid working — work from home🏡 and our incredible offices in London 🇬🇧 Milan 🇮🇹 Sydney 🇦🇺 and Dublin 🇮🇪
  • A remote-working budget to help set up your home office 💺
  • Flexible holiday policy, with 24 days as standard ✈️
  • Generous parental leave, above and beyond statutory requirements and with no minimum tenure 👩‍👩‍👦
  • Enhanced pension contribution at 4% & 4% 👵🏽 👴🏽
  • Private Health Insurance from the day you start 🧑🏽‍⚕️
  • 12 fully-paid Wellbeing Days a year (on top of the holiday allowance) 🕊️
  • Membership of mental wellbeing platform Spill 🧘🏽‍♀️
  • £1,000 to spend on learning & development each year 📚
  • £500 per quarter (outside of required business travel) to visit our hub cities around the world 🌎I

Inclusion & Diversity

At TrueLayer, we embrace people that have different perspectives and personalities. We believe that by seeing the world from all sorts of angles, we can make life better for all the people who live in it. So we want you to know that the things that make you, you — like your age, background and identity — are things that we celebrate and support. All we ask is that you believe in what you do.

About our hiring process

Our hiring process typically consists of three stages:

1. A call with one of our Talent Acquisition Partners2. 40 minute technical interview with a Senior Security Engineer3. 2.5 hour Final stage interview

Full details on the interview process, including preparation tips and the qualities we look for in future TrueLayeristas, can be found on our blog.

Company benefits

Open to part-time employees
Open to compressed hours
Sabbaticals
Enhanced maternity leave – above and beyond statutory requirements and with no minimum tenure
Enhanced paternity leave
Adoption leave
Work from anywhere scheme – max. 90 days a year as part of our hybrid work policy
24 days annual leave + bank holidays
Work from home allowance
Co-working space allowance
Pregnancy loss leave
Teambuilding days
Membership of mental wellbeing platform
Private health insurance from the day you start
12 fully-paid wellbeing days a year (on top of the holiday allowance)
£1,000 to spend on learning & development each year
Open up allowance - A £500/ quarter budget to visit colleagues and work from our offices in other countries
Location
52%
Employees are somewhat happy with their working location freedom
Hours
71%
Employees are largely happy with the flexibility in the hours they work
Benefits
72%
Employees are largely happy with the benefits their company offers
Work-life balance
63%
Employees feel that they can switch off quite easily from work
Role modelling
52%
Employees feel flexible working is supported for some people
Autonomy
80%
Employees feel that they can mostly manage how they get their own work done

Working at TrueLayer

Company employees

400

Gender diversity (male:female)

69:31

Office locations

UK, Italy, Ireland

Funding levels

$270,000,000

Hiring Countries

Ireland
Italy
United Kingdom

Awards & Achievements

Finance & Insurance

Finance & Insurance

Industry awards 2023
Most flexible companies

Most flexible companies

Flexa100 2023
Finance & Insurance

Finance & Insurance

Industry awards 2022