Haleon

Consumer Health

CountermeasureAnalyst

United Kingdom FULL TIME
Market Sentiment
HIGH DEMAND

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The Brief

“Countermeasure Analyst at Haleon. Skills: Cybersecurity, Threat hunting, Incident Response. Define and execute threat hunts. Develop hypotheses, methodologies and tooling”

What You'll Achieve.

Shift security posture from reactive defence to proactive, adversary-centric operations; Minimise breach impact; Improve overall organisational resilience

Industry & Context.

Consumer Health
Problems you'll solve

Tackle complex, evolving cybersecurity challenges; Make high-stakes decisions under pressure; Balancing rapid response with thorough investigation

What They're Looking For.

Must Have

Three years in cybersecurity, responding to significant cyber incidents involving Organised Crime and Nations State threat actors

Nice to Have

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Cyber Security or related field (or equivalent experience), Experience of working in a Cyber Security Operations Centre, Experience working across international manufacturing, Understanding of security controls and how they are used to detect and respond, Knowledge of common network protocols, edge routing technologies, firewall/IDS/IPS, SIEM, EDR/XDR, Ability to communicate complex problems succinctly, Ability to work within a team environment, sharing workload and responsibility, CISSP, GCIA, GCDA, GSOC, GCIH

What You'll Do.

Define and execute threat hunts

methodologies and tooling

Search for indicators of compromise

Search for indicators of attack

Support Red team activities

Simulate multi-layered attacks

Detect and neutralise advanced threats

Minimise breach impact

Improve organisational resilience

Tune security tooling

Develop correlation rules

Define detection signatures

Develop behavioural analytics

Develop security control policies

Act as key member of Cyber Incident Response Team

Address security issues

Develop security awareness training

Tackle cybersecurity challenges

Make high-stakes decisions

Balance rapid response

Balance thorough investigation

Collaborate with Threat Intelligence

How You'll Work.

Team & Collaboration

Support Red team activities; Be a key member of the Cyber Incident Response Team (CIRT); Establish and maintain relationships with other investigation and remediation teams; Work closely with investigation and remediation teams; Collaborate with Threat Intelligence; Work within a team environment; Share workload and responsibility

Communication Scope

Communicate complex problems succinctly

Full Job Description

Welcome to Haleon. We’re a purpose-driven, world-class consumer company putting everyday health in the hands of millions. In just three years since our launch, we’ve grown, evolved and are now entering an exciting new chapter – one filled with bold ambitions and enormous opportunity. Our trusted portfolio of brands – including Sensodyne®, Panadol®, Advil®, Voltaren®, Theraflu®, Otrivin®, and Centrum® – lead in resilient and growing categories. What sets us apart is our unique blend of deep human understanding and trusted science. Now it’s time to fully realise the full potential of our business and our people. We do this through our Win as One strategy. It puts our purpose – to deliver better everyday health with humanity – at the heart of everything we do. It unites us, inspires us, and challenges us to be better every day, driven by our agile, performance-focused culture. **Responsibilities** : This position is critical to protecting Haleon’s corporate assets and managing its day-to-day operational cyber security defences. It involves the proactive, in-depth analysis of sophisticated threat actors in order to develop and implement countermeasures. It requires an understanding of the adversary’s tactics, techniques and procedures at a deep, technical level, moving beyond traditional security monitoring. The primary goal is to shift the company’s security posture from reactive defence to proactive, adversary-centric operations. **The position holder will:** * Define and execute threat hunts to search for undetected malicious activity within the organisation’s IT and OT environments. * Develop hypotheses, methodologies and tooling to proactively search for indicators of compromise (IOCs) and indicators of attack (IOAs) that evade automated defences. * Support Red team activities that simulate realistic, multi-layered attacks against the organisation’s people, processes and technology, thereby rigorously testing the effectiveness of the Security Operations / Cyber Inc

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