Engineer - Digital Investigations, Analytics & Insider Threat

GSK remains committed to achieving bold commercial ambitions for the future. By 2031, we aim to deliver £40 billion in annual sales, leveraging our existing strong performance momentum to significantly increase our positive impact on the health of billions of patients globally. Our Ahead Together strategy is centred on early intervention to prevent and alter the course of disease, thereby protecting people and supporting healthcare systems.

Our diverse portfolio consists of vaccines, specialty medicines, and general medicines.

Through continuous innovation and a dedicated focus on scientific and technical excellence, we strive to develop and launch new, groundbreaking treatments that address critical health challenges.

Job Purpose:

The Engineer, Digital Investigations, Analytics & Insider Threat will support delivery of the team's work and build depth within Digital Investigations, Analytics & Insider Threat, with insider threat operations as the priority focus. This is a hands-on engineering role that supports current insider threat operations and contributes to developing the agentic AI framework that will optimise and automate the prevention, detection and response to insider threat events.

About the team:

The Digital Investigations, Analytics and Insider Threat team runs GSK’s insider threat program end to end, detecting, investigating and responding to threats from those who already have authorised access, and protecting GSK intellectual property and confidential business information from insider risk. The team also covers digital forensics and investigative analytics in support of insider threat and related casework. Alongside running current operations, the team is building an agentic AI framework to optimise and automate the prevention, detection and response to insider threat events, and every role in the team contributes to its development.

Key responsibilities:

This role will provide you the opportunity to lead key activities to progress your career. These responsibilities include some of the following:

• Support day-to-day insider threat monitoring, triage and case support under the direction of senior colleagues.

• Conduct digital investigations into suspected policy violation, data theft and insider activity.

• Perform tactical analysis across multiple information streams to detect insider threat indicators.

• Help build and tune detection logic across DLP and UEBA platforms.

• Help maintain the data pipelines that bring HR, access, endpoint, email and cloud telemetry into the analytics layer.

• Carry out insider threat risk assessments across business units, functions and scenarios.

• Contribute to the development of the team’s agentic AI framework: help test and validate AI-driven detection and triage models, label and curate data sets, and document workflows and playbooks for automation.

• Deliver assigned tasks under the direction of senior colleagues.

• Build technical depth in the capability through structured development.

Basic Qualifications:

• Degree in a relevant discipline, or related experience, or relevant certification.

• Demonstrated experience in digital investigations, insider threat or corporate investigations.

• Working knowledge of investigative analytics and case handling.

• Foundational understanding of cyber security concepts and the relevant domain.

• Willingness to learn and develop technical depth.

• Clear written and verbal communication.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Hands-on experience with Data Loss Prevention and User and Entity Behavior Analytics platforms.

• Experience with digital forensics tooling and evidence handling.

• Experience handling matters with HR and Legal involvement.

• Statistical analysis and data visualization skill.

• Relevant certification such as CERT Insider Threat Program Manager, GCITP, GCFA, GCFE, CISSP, CompTIA Security+.

• Experience in pharmaceutical, life sciences or another highly regulated industry.

• Interest in or exposure to AI/ML-assisted security tooling or automation, such as scripting or agentic workflows.
• Typical tools and technologies: DLP, UEBA, EDR, SIEM, forensic imaging and analysis tooling, case management platforms.

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Skills

AI for Cybersecurity, Alert Logic Threat Manager, Case Management, Cloud Security, Cyber Threat Intelligence, Digital Investigation, Forensic Data Analysis, Incident Management, Infrastructure Security, Insider Threat Mitigation, Intrusion Detection, Intrusion Prevention, Investigative Analysis, ML Security, Offensive Cyber Operations, Security Monitoring, Security Operations, Security Planning, Security Protocols, Security Risk, Security Technologies

 

 

Why GSK?

Uniting science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together.

GSK is a global biopharma company with a purpose to unite science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together. We aim to positively impact the health of 2.5 billion people by the end of the decade, as a successful, growing company where people can thrive. We get ahead of disease by preventing and treating it with innovation in specialty medicines and vaccines. We focus on four therapeutic areas: respiratory, immunology and inflammation; oncology; HIV; and infectious diseases – to impact health at scale.

People and patients around the world count on the medicines and vaccines we make, so we’re committed to creating an environment where our people can thrive and focus on what matters most. Our culture of being ambitious for patients, accountable for impact and doing the right thing is the foundation for how, together, we deliver for patients, shareholders and our people.

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