NETSECOPS Operational Governance Senior Analyst

Join Barclays as a NETSECOPS Operational Governance Senior Analyst, supporting the establishment and maturation of the Network Security Operational Governance capability within Group Technology CISO. This role is focused on strengthening network segmentation governance by ensuring network security products are operated in line with defined security controls, performance measures, and secure design principles, enabling consistent, resilient, and compliant security outcomes across the organisation.

To be successful, you should have:

• Hands on experience of cyber and information security
• An understanding of Cyber threats and the associated cyber security measures. Experience in the identification, assessment and tracking of cyber risk.
• Excellent organisational skills – the ability to self-manage workload and prioritise action based on business needs.
• Ability to manage and influence requirements from the different stakeholders to ensure key SLAs and Key Indicators are maintained
• Collaborative, able to bring multiple stakeholder groups together and work to achieve a common goal. Be able to show a good level of influence and negotiation when dealing with stakeholders.

• Knowledge of business or technology risk and control including relevant tools and techniques.
• Knowledgeable about existing best practices for implantation and integration of security controls related to network security
• Working experience with common Frameworks such as NIST CSF and ISO 27001, including technical requirements
• Experience with external regulatory requirements, achieving compliance and delivering to requirements
• Industry recognised credentials such as CISSP, CISM, CIRM

You may be assessed on key critical skills relevant to success in this role, such as risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen, strategic thinking, digital and technology skills, as well as job-specific technical skills.

This role is based in Knutsford.

To provide a primary liaison service between the business, technology, and security functions. In order to ensure the confidentiality, integrity and availability of information, and support the mitigation of security risk.

• Collaboration with stakeholders to understand their security requirements in business processes and IT projects, to enhance overall risk management.
• Execution of risk assessments to identify and prioritise potential cybersecurity threats that could impact the banks operations and data and guide the implementation of mitigation strategies and communicate findings to relevant findings to relevant senior stakeholders.
• Collaboration with business units to develop and implement security policies and procedures for the banks operations aligned to the risk management framework.
• Management of the implementation, testing and monitoring of security controls across the banks IT systems to ensure the effectiveness of controls and mitigation of risk.
• Execution of training content and sessions to educate employees, enhance cybersecurity awareness and provide guidance on safe online practices.
• Management of complex cybersecurity incidents by collaborating with IT teams and response experts to effectively resolve cases through analysis, expertise support and project supervision.
• Identification of emerging cybersecurity trends, threats, and new technologies to address potential risks by advocating the adoption of new security solutions.

• To contribute or set strategy, drive requirements and make recommendations for change. Plan resources, budgets, and policies; manage and maintain policies/ processes; deliver continuous improvements and elevate breaches of policies/procedures..
• If managing a team, they define jobs and responsibilities, planning for the department’s future needs and operations, counselling employees on performance and contributing to employee pay decisions/changes. They may also lead a number of specialists to influence the operations of a department, in alignment with strategic as well as tactical priorities, while balancing short and long term goals and ensuring that budgets and schedules…