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Role: SOC Engineer
Location: Birmingham (SCC operate hybrid working, which comprises of a mix of office and home working)
Contract Type: Permanent
Salary Package: 35k - 40k plus large company benefits, a broad flexible benefits scheme, and 2 paid-for volunteering days a year
Active Security Clearance or eligibility to under the process is required for this role
Hours: 9.00 am – 5.30 pm Monday – Friday
Interview Process: 2-stage process
Why SCC?
1. An inclusive workplace
2. Excellent package: solid basic and company benefits
3. Hybrid working & core hours in line with role requirements
4. Career development and life-long learning opportunities
5. Opportunity to join Europe's largest privately-owned IT Company
Role purpose:
The evolving security landscape brings new challenges and opportunities, making strong customer support essential to SCC Cyber's success as an MSSP.
The SOC Engineer role provides the chance to work closely with the business across a wide range of managed security services, including MDR and XDR. The position focuses on delivering technical expertise to maintain and enhance operational security capabilities—monitoring the IT environment, managing security tools, and handling incidents.
As part of the core security team, the role also contributes to continual service improvement within the SOC, ensuring SCC customers receive efficient, compliant, and best‑in‑class security services.
Key responsibilities:
6. Be the technical engineering subject matter expert (SME) for the SOC team focussed across SIEM, Vulnerability Scanning, EDR / MDR and other Security Technologies
7. Perform business as usual and Project/Onboarding support for the security technologies, examples, log source health offence triage, tuning, vulnerability scanning for investigation into findings and remediation and general industry knowledge to support the security deliverables across other service
8. Ensure appropriate governance and appropriate checking of access to our technology solutions is in place
9. Provide technical guidance and assurance to colleagues in the SOC, ensuring remediation, response and general advice is accurate and actionable
10. Stay abreast of emerging security threats, vulnerabilities, and controls, providing technical guidance and advice on threat response plans
11. Provide technical consultancy support in the development of the security technologies, processes and procedures, including the development of 'Playbooks' to ensure best practice is implemented when possible
12. Ensure defined technical compliance functional requirements for each on boarding project and ensure that they are fulfilled prior to going into service
13. Understand the implications of standards and regulations such as GDPR, ISO27001, NCSC Cloud Security Principles, NIS2, to inform decision making
14. Responsible for documentation of implementations, via technical documentation and run books
Skills and experience:
15. To have already achieved SC Clearance or undergo the process for SC Clearance.
16. Solid and demonstrable comprehension of Cyber Security including malware, emerging threats, attacks, vulnerability management and standard accreditation frameworks
17. Possess excellent communication, presentational, critical thinking problem solving, analytical and prioritisation skills.
18. Drive policy, process and procedure, maintenance, and improvement
19. Own workload, ensuring work is delivered on time, and exceeds management's expectations
20. Have a strong emphasis on quality, accuracy and meeting deadlines
21. Be a self-starter and proactive in driving forward security for the benefit of the business
22. Possess strong briefing and technical skills to enable you to present at all levels and across the business and its customers
23. Strong familiarity with Linux and Windows operating systems and cloud provider ecosystem
About You
About Us
SCC is Europe's largest privately-owned IT business, based out of the new £7m HQ office in Birmingham and we help clients succeed through IT transformation and exceptional customer experiences. We are a business where innovation is greater as we combine unique ideas, people and disciplines. We are a global company that is passionate about IT and where we look to simplify the complex.
We are an equal opportunities employer
SCC is committed to providing equal opportunities and a proactive and inclusive approach to equality and diversity in employment. No applicant or employee will be treated less favourably than another on the grounds of a protected characteristic which are defined as sex, sexual orientation, age, disability, gender reassignment, trade union membership or non-membership, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race and religion or belief.
If you are selected for interview, and need any reasonable adjustments made for your interview, please let the SCC Talent Acquisition team know, at the point of scheduling.
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