Senior Cyber Security Analyst

2 months ago


Reading Berkshire, United Kingdom The People Network Full time
Senior SOC Analyst â Reading/Hybrid â Up to £65k + Benefits

Senior SOC Analyst required to join the growing cyber security team at a large enterprise serving millions of customers

Its a great time to be joining this organisation, they are investing big in cyber and evolving their SOC and as a result there are lots of initiatives and projects to get stuck into. If you are looking for a role where you can make an impact and influence the future then this is for you

The Role

Day-to-day you will be responsible for maintaining Security Operations (SecOps) solutions, controls, and processes across the organisation. You will provide proactive risk remediation, will help with incident readiness & response and will also contribute to the continuous improvement of the security environment.

As Senior SOC Analyst you will bring a good understanding of SecOps concepts, technologies, and best practices and will collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams to ensure the highest level of security, compliance, and user experience.
  • Collaborate with stakeholders to ensure security controls align with business requirements and risk levels
  • Develop and maintain SecOps documentation, policies, and procedures
  • Maintain cybersecurity solutions across systems, applications, and infrastructure
  • Investigate security alerts from the SIEM tool and take appropriate incident response actions. Communicate with stakeholders about security incidents, detailing actions taken.
  • Support the Cyber Incident Response Manager by triaging events and conducting root cause analysis for security and privacy incidents. On-call duty is required for major incidents.
  • Conduct proactive threat hunting to detect emerging cyber threats.
  • Collect data for cybersecurity compliance dashboards and ensure compliance with GDPR, NIS, and ISO 27001.
  • Monitor and optimize the performance of SecOps tools.
  • Stay updated with industry trends and best practices to improve security operations.
This is a senior level cyber role that offers a good chance to test and advance your skills across a range of projects including the migration of legacy to more modern solutions.

What will you need?

To be considered you must have extensive experience in a technical Cyber Security role within a large enterprise environment. You will have exposure to working in or with a SOC and will have solid experience of incident response and triaging problems in a structed and disciplined manner.

You must also have hands-on experience utilising and configuring Microsoft Security Operations tools such as Sentinel (including KQL for queries and alerts) and Defender.

You will have solid exposure to remediating cyber risks in changing digital environments and will bring a sound knowledge of MFA (Multifactor Authenticator) and Privileged Access Management (PAM).

You will possess a good general understanding of IT/Infrastructure and will have strong analytical and problem-solving abilities. Familiarity with managing network security capabilities such as NAC, Firewalls, VPN, IDS/IPS is also desirable.

A strong communicator, you will have no trouble explaining complex IT or security problems in a simple manner to non-technical audiences.

Industry certifications are also desirable, ideally a Microsoft SecOps-specific certification e.g. Microsoft Security Operations Analyst (SC-200) and/or cyber security industry certification(s) such as CISSP, CISM, or CCSP.

If you are a Security, Cyber or SOC professional looking for a role that gives you new challenges, opportunities for growth and the chance to make a real impact then APPLY NOW
 

If you are interested please apply ASAP. The People Network is an employment agency and will respond to all applicants within three - five working days. If you do not hear within these timescales please feel free to get in touch.

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