Argus Media Careers

     Security Analyst (Technology)
Mumbai, India

About Argus:

Argus is an independent media organisation has over 1,400 staff, Argus is an independent media organization with 30 offices in the world’s principal commodity trading and production centres. Argus produces price assessments and analysis of international energy and other commodity markets and offers bespoke consulting services and industry-leading conferences. Companies in 140 countries around the world use Argus data to index physical trade and as benchmarks in financial derivative markets as well as for analysis and planning purposes.

Argus was founded in 1970 and is a privately held UK-registered company. It is owned by employee shareholders, global growth equity firm General Atlantic and Hg, the specialist software and technology services investor.  Argus Media is committed to ensuring career and personal growth for all its staff and provides extensive training and career development opportunities, as well as participation in employee-led initiatives, including a women’s network.  Our core values are Excellence, Integrity, Partnership and Inclusivity.

Job Purpose

We make extensive use of modern technology and are heavily invested in the cloud. Our in-house development team develops and supports several client facing web and mobile platforms built as greenfield projects with leading edge technology. 

A part of our continuous improvement program we see seek to expand our Security Operations team, working closely with other regions within a support model that is moving towards a 24/7 service. This is an excellent opportunity for someone to gain invaluable experience in a fast paced, rapidly growing business environment.

The Security Analyst will be a critical player supporting a growing application, network, and server infrastructure. The role encompasses a wide range of operation technologies, including AWS, Windows, Linux and networking, along with security tools for email security, WAF, PAM, SOAR, awareness and other platforms and the candidate would be comfortable with the occasional desktop issue.

Key responsibilities

We are looking for an exceptional candidate to work with the global team to affect change and improve current processes and procedures.

• Active monitoring and responding to security events and incidents escalating as required for remediation.
• Contribute to improving the security monitoring systems and tools to reduce false-positives and more accurately and quickly identifying security events and remediating them.
• Generating, reviewing and submitting security related data into the related analysis platforms.
• Review and report on AWS security governance policies, including custom IAM policies, security groups, NACLs, and S3 bucket policies.
• Review and report on security hardening policies and configurations for servers, desktops, and network devices.
• Assisting the Security team with compliance audit activities.
• Keeping abreast with the latest vulnerabilities, attacks, and security tools to stay current with security trends and risks.
• Participate in OS patch management and coordination using patch management tools
• Participate in ongoing operations projects.
• Participate in technical on-call rotation.

Skills and Experience

• Proven experience on SOC operations and security incident management lifecycle
• Proven experience with security threat remediation, patch management compliance, and reporting.
• Operational experience with security controls, driving remediation required, performing root cause analysis, and implementing continuous improvement process opportunities.

• Proven experience Hands-on experience with automated log review, alerting and data analytics.

• Above intermediate-level knowledge in one or more specific technical areas, network/cloud security, malware detection/analysis, threat intelligence, cryptography, vulnerability management, incident response, forensics, social engineering, or hacking techniques.
• Experience with active monitoring and providing feedback about security trends and risks as they relate to business systems, policies, processes, and infrastructure.

• Reviewing and reporting on endpoint security controls and best practices in an enterprise environment.
• Reviewing and reporting security policies and practices in AWS.
• Scripting / Development experience is desirable
• Ability to read, interpret, write, and correct security-related policies
• Developing on native AWS capabilities, including serverless architectures to deploy and manage security solutions is huge plus
• Experience within a 24x7 production environment, preferably across multiple datacentres and 3rd party cloud environments
• Holding at least one of the following security certificates: Microsoft 365 Security Administrator, AWS Certified Security, C|EH, GSEC, GIAC, CompTIA Security+, Exabeam Administrator, Mimecast Administrator, . Any additional AWS related certificate is a huge plus.

Hours of Work 

Your normal hours of work are on Monday to Friday 9 am to 6 pm. Flexible hours/days depending on work schedule/project commitments and discussion with Line Manager. 

Benefits

Our rapidly growing, award winning business offers a dynamic environment for talented, entrepreneurial professionals to achieve results and grow their careers. Argus recognises and rewards successful performance and as an Investor in People, we promote professional development and retain a high-performing team committed to building our success.

• Competitive salary and company bonus scheme 
• Flexible Working Policy 
• Group healthcare scheme 
• 18 days annual leave 
• 8 days casual leave 
• Extensive internal and external training 

Please send in your application via our official careers website at https://www.argusmedia.com/en/careers/open-positions. 

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