SOC Engineer

Manchester, Lancashire
Reed Technology

• SOC Engineer
• £65,000
• Manchester – required to go into the office once a month

An experienced SOC Engineer is required for our client where you will be delivering technical support within the Defence and Availability Centre team. You will also be responsible for leading major incidents, detecting, triaging, and resolving events, managing the threat intelligence activities.

As a SOC Engineer, you will be required to assess, implement and configure the technical security controls, tools and data. Furthermore, you will lead initiatives to improve the security posture and respond to incidents, problems and change requests from a cyber defence perspective.

Main duties and responsibilities:

• Manage and configure security tools, ensuring optimal performance. Conduct periodic audits of security tool configurations to ensure alignment with security policies and best practice
• Configure, monitor, and maintain Firewall rules and endpoint protection solutions
• Plan, scope and execute security audits and assessments. Collaborate with internal and external partners to regularly assess and report on compliance with security standards and implement corrective actions to address compliance gaps
• Collaborate with incident response teams to provide 3rd and 4th line IR capabilities, act as the point of contact for any 3rd party incident support
• Assist in the analysis of potential attack vectors and methods employed by threat actors by conduct depth analysis on network traffic and hosts artifacts

The following skills and experience will be beneficial for the role:

• Ability to design and implement innovative approaches for detecting and responding to cybersecurity incidents
• Hands on technical experience in SOC operations, with specific focus on configuring andoptimising SIEM technologies
• Extensive experience working with detection and response technologies such as EDR, XDR,SOAR.
• Hands on experience in incident and problem management
• Understanding of the Cyber Kill Chain and MITRE ATT&CK techniques, supported by familiaritywith common and the latest forms of malware