Security Analyst

As a leading business in secure financial transaction processing, security is at the core of Isabel. The Infrastructure Security Analyst plays an important role in Isabel’s Operational Security team to ensure the confidentiality, integrity and availability of all Isabel information.

The Infrastructure Security Analyst will provide specialist support within the security team for all matters relating to the monitoring, detecting, and reporting of cyber security related events coming from Isabel’s networks, our partners, and customers. This position will serve as an advisory role in matters of cyber security to the organization and will have a supporting role in the development, issuance and maintenance of the detailed security strategies and policies. The Infrastructure Security Analyst will support incident handling activities throughout the incident response and forensic analysis process (handling compromised machines and/or supporting HR/Ethics/Legal cases). The Infrastructure Security Analyst will be responsible for successfully leveraging security data from internal (logs, firewalls, hosts, etc.) and external (Industry portals, mailing lists, newsgroups, etc.) sources in an effort to implement effective mitigations to protect Isabel’s network perimeter.

The Security Analyst’s core responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Provide specialist support for monitoring, detecting, and reporting of security related events coming from a large variety of sensors.

• Ensure 24/7 security event analysis activities.

• Perform technical coordination internally and externally as required.

• Provide technical support to forensic investigations.

• Develop and maintain customized sensor and correlation filters and signatures to address Isabel-specific threats and vulnerabilities.

• Monitor all detection capabilities to ensure their expected performance.

• Conduct and direct technical aspects of trend and threat analysis in order to optimize Isabel’s sensors and to propose modifications to audit policies.

• Provide technical expertise on the operational processes of the different areas of cyber security.

This position requires an understanding of networking, cloud, system administration, architectures, and security elements to include firewalls, intrusion detection systems, routers and proxies. This position requires the ability to work independently and in collaboration with rest of the SecOps team. The Infrastructure Security Analyst is also required to produce cohesive technical intelligence reports and an ability to adhere to the highest standards of ethics and professional conduct are an absolute must.

Education:

• Educated to degree level with a specialization in information security or information technology or have relevant experience in the domain.

• Proven information security background with at least 5 years’ experience in a similar role or 3 years with a Master’s Degree in a relevant field.

Generic skills required are:

• Fluency in English and in at least one of the local languages (French and / or Dutch)

• Strong communication skills - both written and verbal

• Ability to work independently and work well under pressure

Technical skills required are:

• Deep understanding of information security tools and processes

• Experience with network equipment, routers, switches, firewalls (at least one of the following: Palo Alto, Cisco, Checkpoint)

• Hands on knowledge of cloud security of one of AWS, Azure, or GCP, and security of MS 365 (including MS 365 Defender)

• SIEM use cases development in Splunk ES, Elastic Search, Azure Sentinel, or ArcSight

• Good understanding of networking, system administration, architectures, and security elements

• System security (Linux or Windows)

• Experience with host and network based forensics

• Programming/scripting experience (Python, PowerShell, Golang, …)

• Technical knowledge in network security products, cryptographic suites

Desired Skills

• Experience working in SOC

• System and Network Vulnerability Assessment

• Automation of security monitoring and response (e.g. Phantom, Cortex, …)

• Experience working in DevOps environment (Ansible, Terraform, Gitlab runners, Vault, Harbor)

• Secure Development Life Cycle knowledge and code review tools like Fortify, …

• Setting web proxy policies/configurations (e.g. Palo Alto, Bluecoat, F5 …)

• Physical/Data Link Layer, Dynamic routing (BGP, MPLS…)

• Enterprise DNS management (Infoblox)

• Knowledge of Kubernetes and Docker

What kind of company would you be joining?

Isabel's products – Isabel 6 (multi-bank payment platform), Ponto (open banking), Kube (verified corporate data) and IntelliSuite (fraud monitoring) – enable seamless, secure and reliable data and money flows. Trusted by more than 50,000 companies to access a network of more than 2,000 banks, Isabel processes more than 2,300 billion euros annually and the company will celebrate its 30th anniversary in 2025.

At the heart of the Isabel brand lies a distinctive commitment to unify the banking sector, software providers and our customers to build community-powered banking solutions. Isabel is a Belgian regulated company, headquartered in Brussels and acting under the supervision of the National Bank of Belgium, and focuses primarily on the Benelux market. At Isabel, we want to be the cornerstone of trust in an era defined by rapid technological advancement and, as such, contribute to a stronger, more efficient and secure digital economy.

To keep up with what we are doing at Isabel, visit our website or our LinkedIn page.

You absolutely deserve this

• Flex Income Plan: you have a say in your salary package; you choose the benefits that suit you best

• Laptop, phone and subscription, group and health insurance, and meal vouchers

• An annual corporate bonus

• By train, bus, electric car or bike; we fix the right compensation

• We’d love to see you at least two days in the office. You don’t want to miss fresh fruit and chair massages, do you? That – and more - is our IsaFun!

• We invest in your personal growth by training and coaching

• You work with experienced (fin)tech leaders and solid software tools

• A certified Top Employer bringing together hundreds of driven colleagues