SOC Analyst

Join one of the fastest-growing, award-winning boutique cybersecurity consultancies in the UK as a SOC Analyst. As the SOC Analyst, you’ll join a team of dedicated security professionals, utilising some of the best in class security solutions on the market to help defend a number of different clients from Charities to FTSE 250 companies. 

What you be doing as a SOC Analyst: 

• The SOC Analyst will utilise their deep technical and analytical skills to assess and if needed remediate any incidents across the entirety of differing client’s networks. 
• Assist the SOC Manager with shift creations and the daily management of Junior Analysts within the team.  
• Get the chance to mentor fellow SOC Analysts whilst developing your current Blue team skillset. 
• Add, update and, when needed, remove IP addresses and domains. 
• Develop/maintain operating procedures and use cases for the handling of different security occurrences as you help guide the Security Operations Centre (SOC) to remain on the cutting edge. 
• Monitor and collate data (triage) coming in from endpoints across their large IT estate using a variety of SIEM tools such as LogRhythm, Splunk, Alien Vault, etc. 
• Put your OSINT knowledge to use when using/developing house built SIEM tools and improving further the Security Operations centre (SOC) capabilities. 
• Prepare comprehensive intelligence reports including your findings, the status/progress of the investigation and the risk factors involved.  

Skills required for the SOC Analyst role: 

• Experience working within Security Operations (SOC) 
• Experience with a multitude of SIEM tools e.g. LogRhythm, Alien Vault, Splunk, Q-radar 
• Advanced networking knowledge 
• Ability to deal with 3rd parties/Clients and relay technical information to non-technical people 
• Scripting knowledge e.g. Python 
• Excellent communication skills 
• Experience performing triage and remediating security incidents (within a cloud-based environment - preferred but not essential)  

If interested please contact Ryan Kirwan on LinkedIn and apply below.