Senior Security Operations Analyst

Company: Forward Role Secure
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Location: Leeds
Job Description:

Senior Security Operations Analyst

Salary – £54,000 – £65,000 + bonus

Location – Manchester or Leeds – Hybrid

We’re working with a well-established, award-winning UK fintech. They’re looking for a Senior Security Operations Analyst to sit at the heart of their Information Security function, owning threat detection and incident response at real scale

The opportunity

  • SIEM – write and tune detection rules, investigate alerts end-to-end, and collaborate with Infrastructure, Networks, DevOps and an outsourced SOC.
  • Threat intelligence & hunting – monitor intelligence from multiple sources, identify trends and emerging threats, and lead coordinated hunting activity.
  • Incident response – analyse, contain, and remediate security incidents, communicating clearly across teams and escalating where needed.
  • EDR – day-to-day interaction with the Endpoint Detection and Response tooling across the estate.
  • Policy & control design – contribute to security policy, standards, and documentation, and design and test logical security controls.

Essential skills and experience

  • Hands-on SIEM experience – Chronicle, Splunk, or Sentinel.
  • Strong understanding of firewalls, IDS/IPS and Windows Security Event Logs.
  • Knowledge of cloud and traditional infrastructure security principles.
  • Ability to proactively identify control weaknesses and vulnerabilities.
  • Clear communicator – able to translate technical risk into plain business language

Posted: July 1st, 2026