Soc Analyst

Opportunity

We are recruiting for a leading consumer services brand who offers a wide-range of products and services, are going through a digital transformation and investing in their tech-stack

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Working with the Security Operations Lead, you will play a critical role in safeguarding the company's assets and ensuring the integrity of our systems and data. You will integrate into a team of SOC analysts, coordinating technical deployment, and incident response activities, and implementing best practices to enhance our security posture.

Location

They offer hybrid working that encourages the positives of team collaboration at their Bristol office 2 days per week.

Key Responsibilities

•    Supporting the Security Operations Lead.

•    Ensuring the SOC capability is seamlessly integrated within the business.

•    Acting as a technical point of escalation for the SOC.

•    Support a collaborative and cohesive team environment, encouraging knowledge sharing and skill development among team members.

•    Develop and maintain SOC procedures, use cases, and playbook to improve detection, streamline response efforts, and minimise impact.

•    Monitor and investigate security events and alerts generated by security tooling, analysing and investigating potential threats or anomalies.

•    Monitor and analyse cloud security logs and events to identify and mitigate security risks and vulnerabilities.

•    Coordinate proactive threat-hunting activities to identify and mitigate emerging security risks before they escalate.

Required Skills

•    Experience working in modern cloud environments such as AWS, GCP or Azure.

•    Security Information Event Management (SIEM), Endpoint Detection & Response (EDR), SOAR (Security Orchestration and Automation and Response) and related technologies.

•    SOC use cases and playbook

•    Responding to security incidents and improving incident procedures.

Desirable Skills

•    Appropriate certifications or relevant experience in SOC operations.

•    Knowledge of Operating Systems, Databases and Applications (Windows, Linux, SQL, F5)

•    Proficient in programming languages such as Python and PHP.

•    Experience or knowledge in mentoring or training approaches for security operations.

Benefits

•    Growing company with career progression opportunities
•    Training, development and support with academic qualifications
•    Private healthcare
•    25-days holiday + bank holidays