Senior Information Security Analyst

The Security Analyst position in Sportradar's SOC is responsible for actively monitoring and managing security threats and risks involving Sportradar Networks, Infrastructure, and Products.

As a Security Subject Matter Expert (SME), Senior Analysts are required to be technically equipped to run and ensure that the Sportradar security monitoring capability and it’s supporting systems are operating in an efficient, effective and secure manner.

This responsibility includes timely review of alerts generated by security devices, developing and documenting security processes, supervising investigations into incidents, and mentoring the Security Operations team members.

The Senior Security Operations Analyst role is additionally responsible for providing the senior point of contact for security incidents arising from the SOC, engaging in the log/alert tuning process, maintaining technical processes & playbooks, producing bespoke reporting from the monitoring solution and supporting the business in incident response and remediation activity.

A designated Senior will be defined as the “Regional” lead Analyst, and will also have the delegated authority of the SOC Lead for day-to-day administration of leave, shifts, and general Analyst performance tracking.

The SOC operates a 24 x 5 monitoring service, with weekend cover, so shift work and/or on-call responsibilities may be required as part of this role.

The Senior Security Operations Analyst is a key member of the Security Operations Team and reports into the Security Operations Lead.

Accountabilities and Activities:

- Monitoring Sportradar security infrastructure from the SOC.
- Reviewing and actioning alerts and incidents from Sportradar security toolsets
- Responding to security events, requests and incidents to ensure that threats, vulnerabilities and breaches are managed to minimise impact to confidentiality, integrity and availability of systems and data.
- Ensuring security team adherence to internal procedures, playbooks and guidelines.
- Maintaining and developing documentation for internal processes, security procedures, and remediation guidelines.
- Clearly articulating security issues to Sportradar internal teams, both verbally and in written format as well as presenting information to management stakeholders to both technical and non-technical audiences.
- Communicate effectively across Sportradar Tribes about the actions of the SOC, and any incident/alerts underway, including their status, impact, and resolution.
- Troubleshooting and helping to resolve security issues for Sportradar teams.
- Develop and manage relationships with strategic third-party Information Security suppliers, partners and industry forums
- Identifying opportunities to improve SOC Monitoring and Detection.
- Training and mentoring the security analysts in the Security Operations team in the development of their cybersecurity knowledge, security specialisation area, and ongoing understanding of the current threat landscape.
- Generating bespoke reporting from the Sportradar monitoring solution in line with business requirements, ongoing investigations, or senior stakeholder requests.
- Adjusting the backend technology system for tuning and visibility considerations.
- Provide advice and guidance on procedural and technical security controls.
- Provide advice and guidance to other teams within the business on good practice and maintain relevant and current industry knowledge.
- Work with the technical and solution architects to provide domain/specialist security expertise to IT projects in line with security strategy; contributing to and reviewing project documentation as necessary.

Required Experience
- 5+ years experience working in a security operations environment, preferably in a senior security technical role.
- Strong knowledge of identified operating system platforms; routers, network protocols, and security architecture.
- Strong knowledge of industry standard SOC tools usage and implementation.
- Advanced knowledge of current vulnerabilities and attacks.
- 2-3+ years experience with alert analysis in a computer network intrusion/detection environment or similar field desirable.
- Advanced networking, analysis and security skills.
- Excellent oral and written communication skills for both technical and non-technical audiences.

Desired Experience
- Experience working in a Security Operations Centre.
- Experience and knowledge of implementation and analysis of Threat Intelligence feeds and reports.
- Experience in two or more areas of Security operations,

i.e. Network Traffic Analysis, Digital Forensics, Monitoring & Detection, Incident Response, Threat Hunting.
- A track record of technical delivery working within a fast paced and pressured environment.

Desired Qualifications, Education and Certifications
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Information Security or similar, or equivalent industry experience.
- Masters Degree in