Are you an experienced SOC professional looking to step into a highly technical Level 3 environment where you can lead investigations, enhance detection capabilities, and play a key role in cyber resilience?
We are partnering with an established organisation within the Telecommunications sector who are looking to hire a Level 3 SOC Analyst/Senior Cyber Security Specialist to join their growing cyber security function.
This is an exciting opportunity for someone with strong incident response and threat detection expertise to work in a fast-paced environment protecting critical systems and infrastructure.
The Role
As a Level 3 SOC Analyst, you will act as a senior escalation point within the Security Operations team, leading complex investigations, improving detection capabilities, and helping shape the wider cyber security monitoring strategy.
You will be responsible for investigating high-severity cyber incidents, threat hunting, improving security tooling, and mentoring Junior Analysts while working closely with engineering and infrastructure teams.
Key Responsibilities
* Lead investigations into high-severity and complex cyber security incidents
* Act as a senior escalation point for Level 1 and Level 2 analysts
* Conduct proactive threat hunting activities and identify emerging attack patterns
* Develop and optimise SIEM detection rules, correlation logic, and automation workflows
* Improve incident response processes, runbooks, and security operations procedures
* Analyse security alerts and telemetry to identify threats and vulnerabilities
* Collaborate with technical teams to strengthen cyber resilience and monitoring capabilities
* Produce post-incident reporting and lessons learned documentation
* Support and mentor junior SOC team members
What We're Looking For
We are keen to speak with candidates who have:
* Strong experience within a Security Operations Centre (SOC) environment
* Proven experience handling high-severity cyber incidents and incident response
* Hands-on experience with SIEM technologies, log analysis, and threat detection
* Strong understanding of Microsoft security tooling including Microsoft Sentinel, Defender XDR and Entra ID
* Experience with KQL (Kusto Query Language) for investigations and threat detection
* Good understanding of MITRE ATT&CK framework
* Knowledge of network security, Firewalls, VPNs, endpoint security and malware analysis
* Experience with threat hunting and detection engineering
Desirable
* Experience with SOAR platforms and security automation
* Scripting experience using PowerShell or Python
* Cloud security monitoring experience ( Azure preferred )
* Relevant certifications such as CySA+, GIAC, GCIH, GCFA or Microsoft SC-200
What's on Offer?
* Permanent opportunity
* Hybrid working model ( a couple of days per week/as required in Manchester )
* Opportunity to work on complex cyber security challenges
* Exposure to modern Microsoft security tooling and large-scale environments
* Clear technical progression and development opportunities
If you are a senior SOC professional looking for your next challenge, I would be keen to speak with you.