Job Title: Senior Security Analyst / SOC

Location: Remote

Salary: £65,000

The company

A leading Cyber Security Consultancy is hiring a remote-based Senior Security Analyst to join their SOC team. The Senior Analyst will be a technical SME for Junior SOC members as well as a Senior escalation point and a key contact for client stakeholders.

About the Senior Security Analyst role

As a Senior Security Analyst, you will support the SOC Manager as a Senior escalation point and technical SME for Junior members of the Security Operations team. This is a hands-on role but additionally gives you the opportunity to work in a customer facing role as a first point of contact between the customer and the Security Operations Centre.

• Vulnerability Testing
• Security Monitoring and First Response
• Incident Handling
• Threat Analysis
• IDS/ IPS

Skills & experience required for the Senior Security Analyst

• Demonstrable ability to form effective working relationships with customers and other stakeholders
• Confident in communicating technical incidents or Security threats to non-technical stakeholders
• Experience in working with SIEM and log monitoring tools
• Capable of acting as a business SME
• Previous experience of working within the SOC (Desirable)
• Proven technical understanding of IT and Operating systems including Windows and Linux
• Minimum 3 years experience
• SANS Incident Handler, Intrusion Analyst or industry equivalent certification
• Eligible for SC Clearance (If already SC Cleared, more beneficial)