Campus - Graduate Programme - Graduate Information Security Analyst - Brighton -2025 - UK

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Role Location: Brighton

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With the right backing, people and businesses have the power to progress in incredible ways. When you join Team Amex, you become part of a global and diverse community of colleagues with an unwavering commitment to back our customers, communities and each other. Here, you’ll learn and grow as we help you create a career journey that’s unique and meaningful to you with benefits, programs, and flexibility that support you personally and professionally.

At American Express, you’ll be recognized for your contributions, leadership, and impact—every colleague has the opportunity to share in the company’s success. Together, we’ll win as a team, striving to uphold our company values and powerful backing promise to provide the world’s best customer experience every day. And we’ll do it with the utmost integrity, and in an environment where everyone is seen, heard and feels like they belong.

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Business Unit/Role Specifics

American Express is on a mission to provide the world’s best customer experience every day. Rooted in this vision is the work of the Technology Risk & Information Security organization, empowering the company to deliver superior service through trust, security, and safety. Our culture is centered around passion, curiosity, and courage, enabling you to innovate and evolve a Fortune 100 company. You can help us achieve our mission!

As a participant of our Graduate program, you will be working in a dynamic, hard-working Technology Risk & Information Security team!

Responsibilities may include:

• Security Incident Response/Threat Intelligence

• Act as the front line of defence at American Express protecting the brand, employees, assets and card members across the globe against threats 24/7/365

• Minimize risk of cyber-attacks and focus on detection and response of threats

• Infrastructure, Application, Network, Cloud, & AI/ML Security

• Drive risk reduction through the rapid identification and remediation of vulnerabilities across the company

• Deliver secure network solutions that enable secure operations and highly available products and services for our customers

• Data Loss Prevention

• Protect our customers, partners, and colleagues from the loss of sensitive information through normal business processes and/or malicious actors

• Monitor and block sensitive data loss where legally permissible

• Identity and Access Management/Authentication

• Deliver centralized Enterprise Identity and Access Management products

• Cryptography/Encryption Services

• Protect all forms of sensitive information, on all platforms, resulting in protection of the Brand and information assets, and regulatory compliance

Preferred Qualifications

We are looking for ambitious & talented individuals that share our company’s value to always do the right thing for our customers, to win as a diverse and inclusive team that respects each other and our differences. Successful candidates will have:

• Cyber security education and/or industry experience

• Strong verbal and written communication skills

• Knowledge or awareness in information security, compliance, assurance, and/or other security standard processes and principles

Minimum Qualifications

• Completed a Bachelors or Masters degree program in Cyber Security, Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems within the 2 years, or have a graduation date of June - September 2025

Employment eligibility to work with American Express in the United Kingdom is required as the company will not pursue visa sponsorship for these positions.

In order for your application to be considered, please complete the below steps:

1. Click on ‘Apply Now’

2. Create a new username and password

3. Complete and submit your application

Our team will review completed applications on a rolling basis. We would encourage you submit your applications early as applications may close before the deadline. We appreciate your patience while we consider your application and will be in contact with you by 3 December 2024. The deadline for applications is 10 November 2024.

If you require any assistance with the completion of this process – or need any reasonable adjustments to be made – then please contact the Campus Recruitment Team on ask.campus.emea@aexp.com

We back our colleagues and their loved ones with benefits and programs that support their holistic well-being. That means we prioritize their physical, financial, and mental health through each stage of life. Benefits include:

• Competitive base salaries
• Bonus incentives
• Support for financial-well-being and retirement
• Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life insurance, and disability benefits (depending on location)
• Flexible working model with hybrid, onsite or virtual arrangements depending on role and business need
• Generous paid parental leave policies (depending on your location)
• Free access to global on-site wellness centers staffed with nurses and doctors (depending on location)
• Free and confidential counseling support through our Healthy Minds program
• Career development and training opportunities

Offer of employment with American Express is conditioned upon the successful completion of a background verification check, subject to applicable laws and regulations.