SecOps Specialist

Security Operations Specialist

Location – London (minimum 3 days in office per week)

Salary - £100-120k + 20-30% Bonus + Great Benefits

Currently working with a UK Investment Management firm who are in the process of building out their Cyber Defence capability and looking to bring in a cloud-based Security Operations Specialist, with a blend of both Analysis and Engineering experience.

You will be dealing with the escalated alerts from a 3rd party MSSP, investigating and responding to the most complex incidents whilst building out IR Playbooks and Processes and developing the internal Threat Hunting capability. You will act as a mentor to the more junior Analysts within the team and play a pivotal role in shaping how the SOC capability is built.

This is an incredible opportunity for an experienced Senior SOC Analyst / Engineer to join a growing yet established firm at a crucial point as they completely build out their Information and Cyber Security capability. Whilst they have the fundamentals in place, this is a completely greenfield SOC buildout, where you will work alongside the Head of SecOps to shape their SOC monitoring, detection and response function.

Key Responsibilities:

• Act as a lead and technical escalation point on the most complex incidents and investigations.
• Proactively look for opportunities to automate, fine-tune and streamline the detection engineering and general SOC capabilities.
• Utilise various internal and external Threat Intelligence feeds to execute proactive threat hunting campaigns.
• Mentor and train junior team members through complex incident response investigations.

Key Requirements:

• Significant experience working in a SOC environment (5+ Years), responding to and containing the most high-profile, escalated incidents.
• Comprehensive knowledge of the Microsoft Security stack – Defender, Sentinel, E5 Security Suite, etc
• Proven experience building detection rules, fine-tuning and streamlining SOC tooling and capabilities.
• Experience working in cloud-native SOC environments – Azure and/or Azure.

If you’re an experienced Security Operations Specialist, looking to shape how one of the most innovative Investment Management firms build out their cyber defence capability and leave a lasting impact on one of the most reputable organisations whilst working alongside a team of genuine Cyber Security SMEs, click the to apply or get in touch directly – j.dale@lawrenceharvey.com