Job Summary

We’re seeking a proactive Cyber Security Specialist to protect the Bank’s digital assets, monitor security systems, and help safeguard our financial infrastructure against emerging cyber threats. 

If you’re searching for a career with high visibility, a steep learning curve and the opportunity to change the future of a global business, you’ve found it. Join our Cyber Defence team and you’ll be given the resources you need to protect our most valuable assets – our people and our products. It’s a demanding job. Our security needs are broad, unique and constantly evolving. That’s why you’ll have the freedom to work autonomously and enjoy access to resources like cyber hub, our dedicated learning programme. Get ready to pioneer better, faster and safer ways to enhance our resilience against threats while keeping our business moving forward. 

About our Technology & Operations Team 
Our Technology & Operations (T&O) team is the powerhouse for the Bank. We aim to go further, faster, to ensure we're agile and ready for tomorrow, today. Our diverse network enables us to innovate and build banking solutions that support communities to prosper. We're a place where talented people are encouraged to grow, learn, and thrive, to drive their own career journeys, to reach their full potential.  
 
When you work with us, you’re protecting the reputation and legacy of a 170-year organisation and building on it. We’re driven by progress and continuously evolving to ensure we’re agile and ready for tomorrow, today
 

Key Responsibilities

• 5 to 8 years experience in cyber security .
• Monitor, detect and respond to any potential security threats and risks to the organisation, using the available technology toolset
• Correlate and consolidate alerts, reports, anomalies and other intelligence sources, put the threat or risk in context, and determine the incident urgency and priority and initiate an appropriate response
• Continuously improve the accuracy and relevance of the Bank’s detection tools and capabilities to keep pace with changing environments and regulatory / compliance requirements

Skills and Experience

• You’ll have strong understanding of network security principles and basic threat detection techniques, with skills in monitoring security systems and identifying potential cyber security risks within a banking environment
• Solid knowledge of banking security compliance requirements and ability to support implementation of security protocols and data protection measures
• Proficiency in fundamental cyber security tools and technologies.
  Network security architecture concepts including topology, protocols, components, and principles (e.g., application of defence-in-depth)
• Knowledge of information technology (IT) supply chain security and supply chain risk management policies, requirements, and procedures. 

About Standard Chartered

We're an international bank, nimble enough to act, big enough for impact. For more than 170 years, we've worked to make a positive difference for our clients, communities, and each other. We question the status quo, love a challenge and enjoy finding new opportunities to grow and do better than before. If you're looking for a career with purpose and you want to work for a bank making a difference, we want to hear from you. You can count on us to celebrate your unique talents and we can't wait to see the talents you can bring us.

Our purpose, to drive commerce and prosperity through our unique diversity, together with our brand promise, to be here for good are achieved by how we each live our valued behaviours. When you work with us, you'll see how we value difference and advocate inclusion.

Together we:

• Do the right thing and are assertive, challenge one another, and live with integrity, while putting the client at the heart of what we do
• Never settle, continuously striving to improve and innovate, keeping things simple and learning from doing well, and not so well
• Are better together, we can be ourselves, be inclusive, see more good in others, and work collectively to build for the long term

What we offer

In line with our Fair Pay Charter, we offer a competitive salary and benefits to support your mental, physical, financial and social wellbeing.

• Core bank funding for retirement savings, medical and life insurance, with flexible and voluntary benefits available in some locations.
• Time-off including annual leave, parental/maternity (20 weeks), sabbatical (12 months maximum) and volunteering leave (3 days), along with minimum global standards for annual and public holiday, which is combined to 30 days minimum.
• Flexible working options based around home and office locations, with flexible working patterns.
• Proactive wellbeing support through Unmind, a market-leading digital wellbeing platform, development courses for resilience and other human skills, global Employee Assistance Programme, sick leave, mental health first-aiders and all sorts of self-help toolkits
• A continuous learning culture to support your growth, with opportunities to reskill and upskill and access to physical, virtual and digital learning.
• Being part of an inclusive and values driven organisation, one that embraces and celebrates our unique diversity, across our teams, business functions and geographies - everyone feels respected and can realise their full potential.

Recruitment Assessments

Some of our roles use assessments to help us understand how suitable you are for the role you've applied to. If you are invited to take an assessment, this is great news. It means your application has progressed to an important stage of our recruitment process.

Visit our careers website www.sc.com/careers