SOC Analyst

Job Title: SOC Analyst

Location: Remote

Salary: Up to £40,000

The company

An award-winning Fortinet Gold Partner is seeking a SOC Analyst. The company are a fast-growing, industry-leading managed service and managed service security provider delivering in to mid and large enterprise clients. They have a key focus on developing their staff by providing training, certifications and exposure to cutting-edge technologies, working across security operations and cyberspace.

About the SOC Analyst role

As a SOC Analyst, you will support the SOC Manager as an escalation point and technical SME for stakeholders within multiple key clients. This is a hands-on role, that gives you the opportunity to work in a customer-facing capacity as a first point of contact between the customer and security operations centre. You will have the opportunity to develop consultancy skills, whilst offering insight into the best technical solutions to secure and report on their client technology stack.

Tasks include:

• Security monitoring and first response
• Incident handling and management
• Vulnerability testing
• Threat analysis
• IDS/IPS

Skills & experience

• If you have previous experience of working within a SOC it would be a huge advantage
• Demonstrable experience in forming effective working relationships with customers and other internal stakeholders
• Be confident in communicating technical incidents or security threats to non-technical stakeholders
• Previous experience of working with SIEM and log monitoring tools
• Proven technical understanding of IT and operating systems including; Cisco and Fortinet
• Minimum 2 years experience within a similar role
• FortiSIEM, FortiAnalyzer, Intrusion Analyst, or industry equivalent certification would be beneficial, not essential
• Fortinet NSE4, CCNA Security or equivalent would be beneficial
• Eligible for SC Clearance
• Already SC Cleared (more beneficial, not essential)