Senior SOC Analyst

YOU MUST HAVE ACTIVE DV CLEARANCE
Senior SOC Analyst
£75 per hour
12 Hour shifts (7am-7pm and 7pm-7am)
7 Days and 7 Nights over a 4-week pattern
6 month contract initially
Buckinghamshire
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