Soc Analyst

Description:

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is responsible for welfare, pensions and child maintenance policy. As the UK’s biggest public service department, it administers the State Pension and a range of working age, disability and ill health benefits to around 20 million claimants and customers. As such, we operate on a scale that is almost unmatched anywhere in Europe and most people in Britain come into contact with us at some point in their lives.

Working with DWP, you will be helping us to drive our priorities to:

• Run an effective welfare system that enables people to achieve financial independence by providing assistance and guidance into employment.

• Increase saving for, and security in later life.

• Create a fair and affordable welfare system which improves the life chances of children.

• Deliver outstanding services to our customers and claimants.

• Deliver efficiently: transform the way we deliver our services to reduce costs and increase productivity.

The SOC Analyst will report to the technical lead in order to inform them about cyber threats (particularly against our M365 estate) and make improvements in the organization.

As a SOC Analyst your main responsibilities would be to:

• Provide expertise on identifying threats, anomalous behaviour, and indicators of compromise.

• Support SOC engineers in building our automated response capability.

• Co-ordinate the internal analysis of threats with other cyber-security colleagues.

• Develop our threat-hunting capabilities in-line with industry accepted frameworks.

Skills:

• Hands-on experience with SIEM platforms.

• Microsoft Sentinel experience is highly desirable.

• Azure Infrastructure technologies experience

• Configuration of Sentinel Infrastructure based on Functional and Non-Functional Requirements.