SOC Engineer

If you are a hands on SOC Engineer, this is the opportunity that you have been hoping for The challenging and satisfying area of Defence needs you on their team. As part of a large SOC Transformation, you will be responsible for the support, management,configuration and maintenance of the specified security products and will have excellent technical skills.
We can offer great career progression opportunities, ability to be based anywhere across the UK, benefits which you can flex to meet your needs and training and development opportunities.

This role requires working 2 days per week in Gosport. Willing to cover on call (Weekends/Bank Holidays) and overtime as required

If you are an outstanding and highly motivated individual with passion and desire to contribute to the positive reputation of our business, we would love to hear from you

**What you will be doing**:

- Support, management, configuration and maintenance of security products
- Responsible for availability, SIEM configuration, tuning, creating bespoke reports, capacity management, log on-boarding and ensuring that the SOC service technical infrastructure is effectively maintained
- Work at a detailed technical level with a number of Line of Service teams (i.e. Unix, Wintel, networks and desktop) when resolving issues

**What you’ll bring**:

- E2E administration
- TCP/IP and networking environments
- Cloud Environments
- Network protocols
- Packet analysis
- Network and host IDS monitoring
- Firewall architecture and hardening techniques
- Malware types
- Vulnerabilities and associated threats and exploits
- Syslog and Windows log formats

**It would be great if you had**:

- IDS and/or IPS (SNORT based systems)
- SPLUNK SIEM
- E2E administration of the SPLUNK SIEM too
- AV enterprise product suites
- VMware, Oracle Enterprise Linux, Containerisation models
- Active Directory and LDAP based user provisioning systems
- Virtualisation solutions
- Alerting and monitoring tools/systems
- Proxy arrays or devices
- Oracle and MS SQL database solutions
- Oracle EBusiness Suite

If you are interested in this role but not sure if your skills and experience are exactly what we’re looking for, please do apply, we’d love to hear from you

**Employment Type Permanent
Location Gosport
Security Clearance Level SC
Internal Recruiter Jane
Salary To £45K dependant on experience
Benefits 25 days annual leave with the option to buy additional days, life assurance, pension, and generous flexible benefits fund**

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Sopra Steria’s Aerospace, Defence and Security business designs, develops and deploys digital solutions to Central Government clients. The work we do makes a real difference to the client’s goal of National Security, and we operate in a unique and privilegedenvironment. We are given time for professional development activities, and we coach and mentor our colleagues, sharing knowledge and learning from each other. We foster a culture in which employees feel valued and supported and have pride in their work forthe customer, delivering outstanding rates of customer satisfaction in the UK’s most complex safety
- and security-critical markets.
Our technical specialists deploy systems running many of the major operating systems such as Microsoft Windows, Mac OS, and multiple Linux distros. We also provide Messaging and Collaboration systems and support, Application packaging and deployment, alongwith supporting Infrastructure and Cloud services and support. Our time can be split between our services and project work, so we have the chance to be multi-disciplined and access to a range of technologies.