Information Security Analyst (Cybersecurity)

Location: London, England, United Kingdom; Workplace: On-site

Company

hirify.global is a renewable energy startup building an integrated energy company spanning generation projects, real-time power trading, distributed energy installations, and direct-to-consumer energy sales.

What you will do

• Act as the security escalation point for IT across IAM, cloud infrastructure, endpoints, SaaS applications, and automation.
• Build and tune security monitoring and log pipelines from AWS, endpoints, identity providers, SaaS applications, and network infrastructure.
• Write, test, and maintain detection rules based on real attacker behaviour and measure detection coverage.
• Lead incident response from detection through containment, eradication, post-mortem, and tabletop exercises.
• Perform forensic analysis of compromised endpoints, cloud workloads, and accounts while preserving evidence.
• Drive vulnerability management, audit readiness, policy improvements, and remediation with IT and engineering teams.

Requirements

• Hands-on background in IT, SOC operations, or another technical security role.
• Solid understanding of cloud infrastructure, ideally AWS.
• Strong networking knowledge, including PCAP analysis, flow logs, VLANs, firewalls, and lateral movement.
• Understanding of attacker tradecraft, including initial access, persistence, privilege escalation, and exfiltration.
• Ability to script in Python or a similar language for enrichment, triage, and response automation.
• Strong ownership and ability to manage security issues end-to-end with limited guidance.

Nice to have

• Experience with EDR platforms such as CrowdStrike, SentinelOne, or Defender.
• Detection-as-code, Sigma, SOAR, or custom response automation experience.
• Experience securing data centre or colocation environments and analysing FortiGate, NetFlow, or sFlow data.
• Experience with ISO27001 or SOC2 audits, or DFIR certifications such as GCIH, GCFA, or GCIA.
• Experience in energy, fintech, trading, or other high-value-target environments.

Culture & Benefits

• Work on security for a fully integrated renewable energy company.
• Operate in a fast-paced startup environment using first-principles thinking and technology.
• Collaborate directly with IT and engineering to address root causes and improve prevention.