Senior SOC Analyst
Focus Group
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Swinton • 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
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💰 £50,000 per year
Job Level
Senior
Tech Stack
CloudCyber SecuritySplunk
About the role
- Leading daily SOC operations—triage workflows, escalation management, SLA adherence, and customer communication.
- Conducting quality reviews, supporting customer onboarding, and working directly with our Cyber Security Technical Lead on detection strategy and service maturity improvements.
- Handling complex investigations across SIEM, EDR, and cloud platforms, performing proactive threat hunting to improve detection coverage.
- Analyzing logs and endpoints for malicious behaviour, producing clear incident reports for customers and internal stakeholders.
- Engaging directly with clients during escalations and threat briefings—building trusted advisor relationships while maintaining operational excellence.
- Identifying automation opportunities, improving detection logic, contributing to playbook development, and keeping the team sharp on emerging threats and MITRE ATT&CK developments.
Requirements
- 4-6 years' SOC or MSSP experience operating at Tier 2-3 or Lead level
- Strong hands-on experience with SIEM platforms like Microsoft Sentinel, LogPoint, Splunk, or Elastic
- Solid EDR platform skills—Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, Bitdefender, SentinelOne, or similar
- Deep understanding of MITRE ATT&CK framework, TTPs, and detection engineering principles
- Proven ability in log analysis, threat investigation methodologies, and incident response
- Leadership experience—team management, mentoring, and operational oversight
- Strong written communication for producing concise incident reports and customer updates
- Calm decision-making during critical incidents with the ability to manage multiple concurrent investigations
- Genuine interest in developing junior analysts and improving team capability
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
SOC operationstriage workflowsescalation managementSLA adherencethreat huntinglog analysisincident responsedetection engineeringautomationplaybook development
Soft skills
leadershipteam managementmentoringoperational oversightwritten communicationcalm decision-makingrelationship buildingcustomer communicationmulti-taskingcritical thinking