Security Operations Centre Specialist

4 weeks ago


Edinburgh, United Kingdom Royal London Group Full time

**Job Title**: Security Operations Centre Specialist

**Contract Type**: Permanent

**Location**: Edinburgh

**Closing date**: 1st February 2023

**About the role**:
We are looking for a Security Operations Centre Specialist to join the Operational Security team.

The purpose of a Security Operations Centre (SOC) Specialist is to enable the detection of potential security issues which may result in cybersecurity incidents. The role will perform triage of newly discovered cyber events and co-ordinate confirmed cyber events with the Defence team to investigate. The role will have a primary focus on the monitoring of security controls within Royal London through the ongoing development and analysis of alerts to cyber security events.

We pride ourselves on being a highly collaborative environment where openness and transparency are at the centre of our culture.

Key responsibilities
Proactive threat hunting & analysis of security events to identify and prevent security threats from materialising.
Assist in the development of use cases, playbooks, policies, and custom tooling to improve our security maturity. Recommend security enhancements and service improvement to help drive effective detection, containment, and eradication of security risks.
Understanding of Security Monitoring tooling used in both on premise & cloud environments.

Criteria
Knowledge and hands-on experience of security information and event management (SIEM) tools from industry leaders. Splunk knowledge preferred.
Experience of perimeter and host security intrusion techniques, including threat hunting as part of incident response.
Analytical and methodical approach to demanding technical challenges.
Used to working to a high level of accuracy and have a dedicated and focused work ethic.

What we offer
We've always been proud to reward our employees by offering a number of great benefits including:
A generous group pension scheme (up to 14% matching employer contribution)
28 days annual leave plus bank holidays with the option to buy/sell up to 5 days
Annual company and performance based bonus
Life assurance (up to 8 x annual salary)
Enhanced parental leave policies
Private medical insurance
Employee Assistance Programme - Access 24/7 to confidential health, legal & financial advice
Full details can be found on our benefits page.

About Royal London
Royal London is the largest mutual life insurance, pensions and investment company in the UK. Since its foundation 160 years ago, Royal London has supported millions of people to protect and provide for themselves and their families.

We believe that being together some of the time will help our colleagues to feel truly connected to our Spirit of Royal London culture. Many of us value the passing conversations, social interactions and building relationships that comes from being together in the office, so we have adopted a hybrid working model, with some of your time spent in the office, and some from home. We are always open to discussing flexible working arrangements, we will discuss working patterns or locations that ensure you have the freedom to be your best

We are an equal opportunities employer. We work hard to attract the best talent for our award-winning team. We believe that embracing difference makes us stronger. Our diverse people bring us different skills - whatever their educational background, disability, gender, age, sexual orientation, race, religion or belief.

In fact, the first pillar of our People Promise is designed to make sure you 'work somewhere inclusive'. We want to live up to this promise; it’s good for our people and good for our customers too, because our workforce should reflect our communities.



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