Security Operations Center Analyst

Description:

As a SOC Shift Lead, you'll be the senior technical escalation point on your shift, taking ownership of complex and high-severity security incidents.

You'll investigate incidents, identify attack vectors and impact, lead containment and remediation, and provide technical guidance to junior analysts.

You'll be responsible for:

• Leading investigations into medium and high-severity security incidents
• Analysing and correlating data across SIEM, EDR and other security sources
• Leading containment, eradication and recovery activities
• Conducting root-cause analysis and producing incident reports
• Supporting detection rule and threshold tuning
• Identifying gaps in detection coverage and response processes
• Mentoring and supporting SOC Analysts
• Acting as the senior escalation point during your shift
• Supporting SOC exercises and incident response simulations

What we're looking for

We're particularly interested in candidates with:

• 5–10 years' experience across SOC, Incident Response or Threat Analysis
• Strong experience with SIEM and EDR technologies
• Hands-on experience investigating and responding to security incidents
• Knowledge of threat detection, containment and remediation
• Experience acting as a technical escalation point or mentoring junior analysts
• Strong analytical and investigative skills