Senior SOC Analyst

Summary

The 4x Senior SOC Analysts will be responsible for the operational leadership of the Security Monitoring function, ensuring the consistent delivery of high-quality security monitoring, investigation and escalation activities.

Responsibilities

• Monitor the organisation’s technology estate to identify cyber security events, suspicious activity and indicators of compromise using approved monitoring platforms and analytical tools.
• Independently investigate security alerts and complex cyber security events, determining their significance, potential impact and appropriate course of actions.
• Correlate information from multiple data sources to establish attack timelines, identify affected systems and support the assessment of cyber security incidents.
• Analyse indicators of compromise, attacker techniques and available threat intelligence to determine the nature and severity of security events.
• Escalate indicators confirmed or suspected cyber security incidents to the Lead SOC Analyst or Incident Responder team in accordance with established operational procedures.
• Support Incident Responders by providing accurate analytical findings, supporting evidence, timelines and technical information throughout incident investigations.
• Contribute to the continual improvement of monitoring capability by identifying opportunities to improve alert quality, investigation processes, monitoring coverage and detection effectiveness.
• Validate new monitoring content, detection rules and operational procedures before deployment into the live SOC environment.
• Assist in the onboarding of new systems, cloud services and application into SOC monitoring by validating operational visibility and monitoring effectiveness.
• Maintain accurate investigations records, ensuring all analytical activities are fully documented in accordance with organisational procedures.
• Share knowledge, provide technical guidance and support the development of Practitioner SOC Analysts through coaching and day-to-day mentoring.
• Contribute to operational reviews, lessons identified and post-incident activities, recommending improvements to monitoring capability and operational processes.
• Maintain awareness of emerging cyber threats, attacker techniques and monitoring technologies to support continual professional development and improved operational effectiveness.

Required Skills / Experience

• The Senior SOC Analyst should demonstrable knowledge and skills in the areas: Cyber security operations, Forensics, Incident management, incident investigation and response, Information risk assessment and risk management, Intrusion detection analysis, Protective security, Secure operations management, Threat intelligence and threat assessment.
• Experience working within a SOC or comparable cyber security operations environment.
• Experience investigating cyber security alerts and security events using enterprise monitoring techniques.
• Good knowledge of SIEM platforms, security monitoring tools and log analysis techniques.
• Understanding of cyber attack methodologies, indicators or compromise, threat intelligence and common attacker techniques.
• Experience analysing information from multiple technical sources to investigate cyber security events.
• Experience supporting cyber incident response activities.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to made sound technical judgements.
• Good written and verbal communication skills with the ability to produce accurate technical reports and investigation findings.
• Ability to work effectively within a shift-based 24/7 environment.
• Professional certifications such as Microsoft SC-200, CompTIA CySA+, GIAC, GCIA or equivalent.

Desirable

• Experience using Microsoft Sentinel, LogRhythm, or equivalent enterprise SIEM platforms.
• Experience developing monitoring improvements, detection tuning, or operational process development.
• Experience supporting Incident Responder activities during major cyber security incidents.
• Experience contributing to the development of monitoring use cases and detection improvements.
• Applied knowledge of MITRE ATT&CK or equivalent adversary behaviour frameworks.