Job Description
Serves as the operational backbone of the SOC, responsible for day‑to‑day monitoring, triage, investigation, and initial incident response activities. Supports senior team members by handling frontline operations and providing valuable operational insights.
Key responsibilities:
* Monitor, triage, and investigate security alerts across protective monitoring platforms
* Review security event data, identify incidents, and escalation appropriately
* Support incident response activities including containment, eradication, and recovery
* Execute runbooks and contribute to their improvement
* Feed detection tuning recommendations back to the senior
* Coordinate with infrastructure and application teams during incidents under the senior's direction
* Contribute to dashboard monitoring and retrospective analysis
* Help shape the SOC's runbooks, processes, and operational standards as they are developed
Qualifications
* 2–4 years in a SOC, monitoring, or security analyst role
* Hands‑on SIEM experience and demonstrable alert triage capability
* Working knowledge of AWS security services
* Comfortable with ambiguity (the SOC is being built around them)
* Strong communication skills and ability to collaborate with technical teams
* Degree in a relevant technical field or equivalent professional experience
* At least one entry/mid‑level certification (Security+, CySA+, BTL1, or SC-200)
* SC-cleared or genuinely cleared‑eligible
Nice‑to‑haves
* Detection authoring experience (writing rules, not just consuming them)
* Scripting ability (Terraform, Python or PowerShell)
* Prior cleared environment experience
* Familiarity with AWS‑native security tooling (GuardDuty, Security Hub, CloudTrail, Detective)
* Additional certifications (GCIA, AWS Certified Security Specialty, vendor‑specific SIEM certs)
Benefits
* Private Medical Health care via Vitality
* Pension contribution, Life Assurance
* Professional certifications supported as part of learning and development
* A range of retail discounts to enhance your lifestyle, encompassing restaurants, supermarkets, travel, leisure activities and health and well‑being services
* Access to our Employee Resource Groups, which represent diverse backgrounds and provide a platform for colleagues to connect, learn, and support one another
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