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Security Analyst - Year in Placement

Cardiff, London or Remote (UK)

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Security Analyst Year in Placement - September 2025 Start 

Closing Date 1st November 2024

📍London or UK Remote  | 💰 £25,000 | Start Date September 2025 

We are seeking 2 highly motivated and passionate individuals to join our Security team at Monzo for placement for a duration of 12 months. This year in placement offers an opportunity for students pursuing studies in Information Security to gain practical experience in a dynamic fintech environment. It will consist of two six-month rotations in our Information Security and Security Operations Squads. 

Key Activities:

We have listed the type of work done by an information security and security operations analyst below. You won’t be responsible for every activity over the course of your six month rotation but will have opportunities to contribute in a range of these areas.

Information Security

  • Work with the rest of the business to onboard high priority suppliers and partners while managing the associated security risk
  • Get involved in improving how we manage Security at Monzo. We want to leverage new technologies such as generative AI to transform traditional approaches to Security 
  • Work closely with the rest of the business to assess and help mitigate the security risks in high priority business changes including product launches
  • Engage with our Security Engineering, Offensive Security, Security Operations and Data Protection teams in everything that you do at Monzo. This will give you exposure to a wide variety of security domains
  • Interface with our 1st, 2nd and 3rd line risk teams when they are delivering Internal Audits, completing 2nd line risk reviews or controls testing
  • Contribute to the development and delivery of security awareness materials and initiatives for employees
  • Participate in promoting a security-conscious culture throughout the organisation
  • Support us in making sure we’re compliant with relevant laws and regulations

Security Operations

  • Assist in monitoring security events and alerts using security information and event management (SIEM) tooling
  • Analyse security event data to identify potential indicators of compromise (IOCs) and security incidents
  • Collaborate with incident response teams to escalate and investigate security incidents
  • Participate in security incident response activities, including containment, eradication, and recovery
  • Document incident response procedures and outcomes for post-incident analysis and improvement
  • Contribute to the collection and analysis of threat intelligence data to identify emerging threats and trends
  • Assist in integrating threat intelligence feeds into security operations processes for proactive threat hunting
  • Contribute to the tuning and configuration of security tools to improve detection accuracy and reduce false positives

🤩 We’d love to hear from you if… 

  • Currently pursuing a Bachelor's or Master's degree in Information Security, Cybersecurity, Computer Science, or a related field
  • You are currently completing your second year at University, you should be completing your final year after the placement years have concluded
  • Understanding of information security principles, practices, and technologies
  • Strong interest in security operations, incident response, and threat detection methodologies
  • Analytical mindset with the ability to analyse and interpret data effectively
  • Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, with the ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams
  • Open to experience opportunities in a wide range of security roles
  • Familiarity with security tools such as Security Information and Event Management (SIEM), Intrusion Detection / Prevention Systems (IDS/IPS), and Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) solutions is desirable

Please note you must hold the right to work in the UK through the full duration of this placement. 

🙌What’s in it for you

Starting September 2025

💰£25,000 annual gross salary 

📍This role can be based in our London office, or we are open to remote working across the UK with adhoc meetings in London

⏰ We offer flexible full-time working hours and trust you to work enough hours to do your job well, and at times that suit you and your team 

💻 Top-spec Macbook to use over the course of your time with us 

🧠 Knowledge-sharing sessions with your squad and wider discipline 

👯 Team and company wide socials / events 

🍝 Lunch on Monzo twice a week from a range of street food vendors 

🌈 The application journey has 3 key steps

Our application process involves three main stages:

  1. Submit your application with the short questions answered 
  2. Role Specific Based Interview 
  3. Values Based Interview

The closing date for applications is 1st November 2024, but we encourage you to apply as soon as possible. Interviews will commence in November! 

We have some guidelines on using Artificial Intelligence (AI) to ace an application and interview at Monzo. You can read them here.

You will have the chance to speak to our recruitment team at various points during your process but if you do have any specific questions or want to talk through reasonable adjustments ahead of or during application please us at any point on tech-hiring@monzo.com.

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Equal opportunities for everyone

Diversity and inclusion are a priority for us and we’re making sure we have lots of support for all of our people to grow at Monzo. At Monzo, we’re embracing diversity by fostering an inclusive environment for all people to do the best work of their lives with us. This is integral to our mission of making money work for everyone. You can read more in our blog, 2023 Diversity and Inclusion Report and 2023 Gender Pay Gap Report.

We’re an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to age, ethnicity, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, family or parental status, national origin, or veteran, neurodiversity or disability status.

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