Senior SOC Analyst

Senior SOC Analyst - Cloud Security / Detection EngineeringLocation: Hybrid - Remote with the requirement to attend team meetings in the Reading office once a monthType: Permanent Full-timeSector: Software / SaaSSalary: £75,000 - £90,000 + 5% annual bonusBallantyne Technology is working exclusively on a senior-level Security Operations opportunity with an international, industry leading software business operating in a modern cloud environment.This is not a traditional SOC role focused on alert handling. The position sits at the senior technical level and combines incident leadership, detection engineering, threat hunting and automation. You''ll have genuine ownership of security operations maturity rather than working in a ticket-driven environment.The roleYou''ll act as a senior technical point of escalation within the SOC, leading complex investigations and driving continuous improvement across tooling, detection capability and response processes.Typical responsibilities include:Leading complex security incidents end-to-end including investigation, containment, forensics and root cause analysis.Designing, tuning and improving detection across SIEM and EDR platforms.Proactive threat hunting across cloud infrastructure, applications, and CI/CD environments.Building and maintaining automation and response playbooks using SOAR tooling.Working closely with DevOps, infrastructure and engineering teams to improve security posture and response capability.Reducing alert fatigue, ..... full job details .....