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Cyber - Soc engineer

Senior Cyber Security Analyst

SSOC_1740067254
Berkshire, South East
£55000 - £70000 per annum + doe
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2025-02-20 16:00:55 2025-04-17 GCS
Feb 20, 2025

We seek a Senior Cyber Security Analyst to be responsible for maintaining SecOps (Security Operations) solutions, controls and processes across the organisation.

This role requires a deep understanding of SecOps concepts, technologies, and best practices, as well as the ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams.

What you will be doing as a Senior Cyber Security Analyst

  • Investigate security alerts from our SIEM tool and provide appropriate incident response actions.
  • Liaise with technology and business stakeholders about cyber security issues/incidents providing clear descriptions and actions.
  • Support the Cyber Security Operations Lead for security and privacy incidents, triaging events and performing root cause analysis to understand how incidents arise. There is a need to be on call.
  • Monitor, analyse and optimise SecOps tool performance (e.g. SIEM), identify potential issues, and recommend and implement proactive solutions.
  • Collaborate with stakeholders to understand business requirements and implement security controls that are proportionate to the risk.
  • Stay current on industry trends, emerging technologies, and best practices to continuously improve security operations.
  • Contextualizing threats specific to the OT estate, and ensuring effective controls and mitigations are in place.

Essential Experience

  • Extensive experience in a technical Cyber Security or IT role, preferably in an enterprise environment.
  • Exposure to working in or with a security operations centre (SOC) or similar environment.
  • Triaging problems or issues in a structured and disciplined manner.
  • Experience in remediating cyber risks in ever-changing digital environments.
  • Strong knowledge of Multi-factor authentication (MFA), Privileged Access Management (PAM) and Security Information & Event Management. (SIEM)
  • Good understanding of IT, networking, and end-user computing.
  • Experience writing Kusto Query Language (KQL) for Sentinel queries and alerts.

Desirable Experience

  • Familiarity with managing network security capabilities such as NAC (Network Access Control), Firewalls, Proxies/VPN, IDS/IPS, etc.
  • Degree in Cyber Security, Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related field.
  • Microsoft SecOps specific certification(s) e.g. Microsoft Security Operations Analyst (SC-200)
  • Hands-on experience utilising and configuring Microsoft Security Operations tools such as Sentinel and Defender.
  • Any generic cyber security industry certification(s) such as CISSP, CISM, or CCSP.

GCS is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.

SSOC_1740067254
Berkshire, South East
£55000 - £70000 per annum + doe

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