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Role: Cyber Defence Analyst
Job Type: Permanent
Location: London
Ready to utilise your experience and expertise in Cyber Defence?
We have an exciting role for you – Cyber Defence Analyst!
Careers at TCS: It means more
TCS is a purpose‑led transformation company, built on belief. We do not just help businesses transform through technology. We support them in making a meaningful difference to the people and communities they serve – our clients include some of the biggest brands in the UK and worldwide.
- Eager to collaborate and contribute to a dynamic team environment.
- Ready to tackle challenges head‑on with a proactive mindset.
- Committed to achieving excellence and delivering impactful results in every interaction.
The Role
As a Cyber Defence Analyst, you will be responsible for detecting and responding rapidly to potential security threats. You will interpret threat data, perform in‑depth investigations, enhance detection capabilities, and proactively manage and tune security tools to ensure optimal performance. This role is critical to strengthening the organisation’s cyber resilience and supporting core security operations.
Key Responsibilities
- Proactively monitor, investigate, and respond to alerts in SIEM tools and ticketing systems; manage incidents through to closure or initiate IT incident management processes where required.
- Participation in an on‑call rota for security incidents is required.
- Manage incident and approval queues within IT ticketing systems.
- Act as SecOps SME for nominated technologies, ensuring effective configuration, management, and optimisation of assigned security tools.
- Support SecOps leadership in providing assurance over services delivered by Managed Security Service Providers.
- Ensure SecOps processes and procedures are well‑documented and support knowledge sharing across the team and the wider IT landscape.
- Assist with processing security events, investigations, vulnerability analysis, and remediation activities.
- Derive actionable insights from cyber threat intelligence and improve understanding of the threat landscape.
- Process IOAs and IOCs to enhance detection rules and control configurations.
- Perform proactive threat hunting based on emerging threats and organisational threat intelligence.
- Conduct confidential eDiscovery investigations, document findings, and present evidence as required.
- Support additional security activities and projects as needed.
- Engage and collaborate with external stakeholders including IT teams, users, and service requestors.
Your Profile
- Experience in Use Case production and security tooling configuration/operations.
- Strong understanding of case management tools and IT ticketing systems.
- Extensive knowledge of Security Operations controls and processes.
- Experience with vulnerability management tools and SIEM solutions.
- Basic knowledge of networking, perimeter controls, IAM, and operating systems.
- Understanding of cloud security controls and container security.
- Experience with scripting and basic coding.
- Experience with EDR operation and configuration, including MITRE ATT&CK framework.
- Prior experience with eDiscovery tools and investigations.
- Industry‑standard security certifications (e.g., CISSP, GIAC, CEH).
- Strong written, verbal, and presentation communication skills.
- Ability to work under pressure during security incidents and manage competing demands effectively.
- Excellent analytical and problem‑solving abilities.
- Strong stakeholder collaboration and relationship‑building skills.
- Exposure to the Retail domain.
- Demonstrated commitment to excellence (performance, improvement, customer focus, decision‑making).
- Strong collaboration, communication, influence, resilience, and ability to manage ambiguity.
- Innovative mindset with curiosity around emerging cyber trends.
TCS is consistently voted a Top Employer in the UK and globally. Our competitive salary packages feature pension, health care, life assurance, laptop, phone, access to extensive training resources and discounts within the larger Tata network.
We offer health & wellness initiatives and sports events; we are the proud sponsor of the London Marathon.
Diversity, Inclusion and Wellbeing
Tata Consultancy Services UK&I is committed to meeting the accessibility needs of all individuals in accordance with the UK Equality Act 2010 and the UK Human Rights Act 1998.
We welcome and embrace diversity in race, nationality, ethnicity, disability, neurodiversity, gender identity, age, physical ability, gender reassignment, sexual orientation. We are a disability inclusive employer and encourage disabled people to apply for this role.
As a Disability Confident Employer, we offer an interview to applicants with disabilities or long‑term conditions who meet the minimum criteria for the role. Please email us at UKI.recruitment@tcs.com if you would like to opt in.
If you are an applicant who needs any adjustments to the application process or interview, please contact us at UKI.recruitment@tcs.com with the subject line: “Adjustment Request” or call TCS London Office 02031552100 / +44 204 520 2575 to request an adjustment. We welcome requests prior to you completing the application and at any stage of the recruitment process.
Next Steps:
Application Process
- Online application: You can apply directly through LinkedIn/ by uploading your CV. In case you wish to submit your application via another format like audio/video, please, contact – UKI.recruitment@tcs.com
- Skill‑Based discussion: This will be a level 1 interview with the project team, it can be via video or in‑person. Details will be confirmed by your recruiter.
- Managerial discussion: This discussion will focus on behavioural aspects and person‑organisation fit.
- HR Discussion: This will be with one of the members of the HR team and will cover your career journey, aspirations for growth, compensation and any other questions you may have.
Beware of Fraudulent offers
This is to notify you that TCS does not ask for any sort of payment or security deposit from candidates at any stage of the recruitment process. The firm never sends out job offers from free internet email services like Gmail, Yahoo Mail, and so on. TCS has not authorised any third‑party company to collect money on their behalf. As a vigilant job seeker, beware of fraudulent recruitment activity and protect your interests! You can write to UKI.recruitment@tcs.com to report any fraudulent activity.
Due to the high volume of applications, we will be unable to contact each applicant individually on the status of their application. If you have not received a direct response within 30 days, then it should be deemed unsuccessful on this occasion.
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