Data Security Analyst

Role: Data Security Specialist

Location: Glasgow, UK - Inside IR35

Job Type: Contract (3 days a week Onsite)

Key Responsibilities:

• Build and operate DSPM solutions across structured and unstructured data environments.
• Discover, inventory, classify, and assess sensitive data across databases, data lakes, warehouses, object stores, file platforms, SaaS, and cloud services.
• Develop Python automation for data-source onboarding, scanning, metadata enrichment, risk scoring, evidence capture, and remediation workflows.
• Integrate DSPM platforms with IAM, data catalogs, CMDB, SIEM/SOAR, ticketing, incident response, and reporting systems.
• Correlate data sensitivity with ownership, permissions, identity, location, lineage, configuration, exposure, and activity.
• Configure classification policies, risk analytics, dashboards, alerts, and workflows.
• Improve classification accuracy, coverage, data freshness, connector health, and remediation performance.
• Support controls including least privilege, Zero Trust, encryption, masking, tokenisation, retention, and secure deletion.
• Troubleshoot integrations and distributed systems across APIs, networks, identities, cloud services, and data platforms.
• Produce technical designs, operational documentation, control evidence, metrics, and risk communications.

Desirable Skills:

• Microsoft Purview, BigID, Varonis, Cyera, Security, or similar DSPM platforms.
• Azure, AWS, or Google Cloud data and security services.
• Databases, data warehouses, data lakes, lake houses, MongoDB, or object storage.
• Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, Ansible, Kafka, Jenkins, Grafana, Loki, or Splunk.
• SIEM/SOAR, data catalogs, CMDB, data lineage, DLP, cryptography, masking, and retention.
• NIST, Zero Trust, cloud security frameworks, or regulated environments.