SOC Technical Lead

Company: DGH Recruitment
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Location: London
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Role

SOC Technical Lead (Incident Response / GIAC)

Please note: This role will require 4 days per week on site.

Overview

Reporting into the Security Operations Centre Senior Manager, the role will develop and integrate the Incident Response (IR) / SOC security infrastructure to monitor both on premise and cloud environments. The role will serve as a critical bridge between operations and engineering.

Responsibilities

  • Drive and improve continuous monitoring and incident response, serving as a senior resource in the SOC and Incident Response processes.
  • Configure and integrate platforms, tools, service providers, and solutions into IR/SOC systems, make recommendations as needed.
  • Consolidate and improve security logging and monitoring solutions on premise and in the cloud to detect and respond to security threats in real time.
  • Drive efforts to automate and accelerate the detection and response processes.
  • Ensure integration of input from the deployed suite of security tools to SOC systems (e.g. SIEM/SOAR), including, but not limited to, IDS/IPS, End Point Protection, MDR/XDR, PAM, MFA, DNS Security, and cloud security posture management.

Required Skills / Experience

  • 8+ years of hands-on experience in information security related responsibilities with a strong focus on SOC engineering, incident response, and threat detection/hunting.
  • In-depth knowledge of IR/SOC monitoring, alerting and investigation tools platforms, process, and architecture
  • Experience working with cloud security technologies (AWS, Azure DevOps, Kubernetes, GCP, etc) including cloud log analysis, monitoring, detection, and incident response.
  • Experience with SOC use of SIEM, SOAR, IDS/IPS, DLP, and Endpoint security.

Seniority level

  • Mid-Senior level

Employment type

  • Full-time

Job function

  • Information Technology

Industries

  • Professional Services and Legal Services

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Posted: April 11th, 2026