About Allica Bank
Allica is the UK's fastest growing company - and the fastest-growing financial technology (Fintech) firm ever. Our purpose is to help established SMEs, one of the last major underserved opportunities in Fintech.Established SMEs are the backbone of local communities - representing over a third of our economy - yet have been largely neglected both by traditional high street banks and modern fintech providers.
Department Description
Security is woven into every part of Allica. We're not just here to protect the business, we're here to enable it to grow safely and confidently. Our work touches every team and every customer, whether that's keeping payments flowing, data safe or our people equipped with the tools and knowledge to stay secure. We enjoy a mix of pace and purpose. In many banks, security can feel like a blocker here, it's a partner.At Allica, we're building security for a modern bank, cloud-native, intelligence led and transparent. That means our people have the freedom to shape how security looks, experiment with new approaches, technology and see their impact almost immediately.
Role Description
Security Operations Engineers are on the front line of Allica's cyber defence. You'll monitor, detect, and respond to threats in real-time, while continuously improving the tools, processes and automation that make that possible. This isn't a playbook job we're looking for thinkers, builders and doers who want to shape how modern security operations work in a fast moving, cloud first environment.
Principal Accountabilities
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- Monitor and triage alerts from our security tooling (XDR, SIEM, EDR) to identify and respond to threats quicky and effectively.
- Investigate suspicious activity and participate in incident response actions, escalating where appropriate and ensuring proper documentation and lessons learnt.
- Tune and improve detection rules, playbooks and response logic to reduce noise and improve signal quality
- Collaborate with wider IT teams to harden systems, remediate vulnerabilities and proactively reduce risk
- Contribute to the wider Security roadmap, bringing your ideas and technology experience to the table.
- Support offensive security activities, adversary simulations, and penetration testing exercises.
- Drive compliance initiatives aligned with ISO 27001, NIST, and other recognized frameworks.
Personal Attributes & Experience
- Experience working in a security operations or incident response role, ideally in a cloud-native environment (Azure preferred)
- Familiarity with modern security tooling including SIEM, XDR/EDR, SOAR, threat intelligence feeds, threat hunting, and log analytic tools.
- Understanding of attack vectors and adversary techniques (MITRE ATT&CK, cyber kill chain etc)
- Strong troubleshooting and analytical skills with an ability to follow an investigation and where it leads.
- A passion for automation, scripting, process improvement (PowerShell, Python, Bash or similar)
- Experience with M365/O365 security.
- Experience with Microsoft Entra, Conditional Access, risky sign-ins, and MFA.
- M365/O365 Data Loss Prevention experience desirable.
- Interest in continuous learning.
Preferred Tools & Platforms Experience
Experience with the following tools will be considered an added advantage.
- Security & Threat Detection: CrowdStrike & Abnormal
- Cloud & Endpoint Security: Azure, Intune, Netskope, Microsoft Purview.
- Vulnerability & Risk Management: Qualys, RiskLedger, Easy DMARC
- Data Protection & Monitoring: Varonis
Working at Allica Bank
At Allica Bank we want to ensure our employees have the right tools and environment in which to succeed in their role and in support of our customers.Our employees are at the heart of everything we do, so our benefits are designed with you in mind:
- Full onboarding support and continued development opportunities
- Options for flexible working
- Regular social activities
- Pension contributions
- Discretionary bonus scheme
- Private health cover
- Life assurance
- Family friendly policies including enhanced Maternity & Paternity leave
Don't tick every box
Don't worry if you don't have all the skills or requirements listed on the job description. If you think you'll be a good fit, we'd still love to hear from you!
Flexible working
We know the 9-to-5 isn't right for everyone. That's why Allica Bank is fully committed to flexible and hybrid working. Please let us know what is best for you and, if we can, we will do our best to accommodate.
Diversity
We're a diverse bunch here at Allica, with all kinds of experiences, backgrounds and lifestyles. Our openness and differences make us stronger, and we want everybody to feel comfortable bringing as much of themselves to work with them as they like.
