Principle Security Specialist

Stanton House have partnered with a FTSE 250, leading IT Infrastructure provider, who are looking for an ambitious, experienced Principle Security Specialist to join their expanding SOC team. This rapidly growing, dynamic organisation pride themselves on 2 key principles: outstanding customer service and employee satisfaction – and last year were ranked the No.1 place to work based on this.

Working as part of the SOC, the Principle Security Specialist will be the most experienced technical individual within the team, taking ownership for complex incidents, customer management and developing the company’s SOC which aims to double in size over the next year. You will be required to support existing, more junior analysts within the team, as well as supporting the Security Practice Lead.

Role Responsibilities:

• Assist in the build out of the organisation’s Cyber Security Services and provide day-to-day support to the Security Practice Lead
• Help shape the current tools and provide guidance to more junior members of the team
• Be a Subject Matter Expert on recent hacks/incidents – specifically around web applications databases and desktop tools
• Build relationships with relevant stakeholders to successful identify, evaluate and communicate new and ongoing cyber threats
• Use threat intelligence feeds and threat monitoring tools to identify data breaches and network compromises within the customer networks
• Identify areas of automation in existing platforms and provide guidance on how to improve this

Requirements:

• Strong, hands on experience, with SIEM tools – ideally Alien Vault
• Experience working in a client facing role
• Prior work with an MSP or MSSP is preferred
• The ability to use relevant intelligence research tools to advise on the threat to clients
• Solid experience in incident response, forensic investigations and threat actor methodologies
• Security Architecture experience – Cloud preferred
• Relevant security certification – CISSP/CISM
• Strong communication both written and oral – the capability to build rapport with customers and relay high level, complex technical and intelligence related information in Lehman’s terms
• Ability to identity and evaluate new tools to help drive SOAR

Please note: Shift work will be required as part of the role