SOC Analyst Security Cleared
Gosport
Key Responsibilities
Lead on security activities for large client engagements through creating and maintaining strong stakeholder relationships (customer and internal), developing a solution that align with overall objectives and contractual obligations
Identify and understand customer requirements and demonstrate creativity and innovation in applying solutions for the benefit of the customer
Identify and design solutions that understand customer requirements and apply industry best practice in solutions for the benefit of the customer
Collaborate with other team members to identify potential cyber risks, assess their impact and develop technical mitigation strategies
Working with Security Architecture to inform focused security solution design for SOC/SIEM solutions
Formulate security strategy, creatively applying a wide range of technical and/or management principles
Stay up to date with the latest cybersecurity threats, vulnerabilities, and industry standard methodologies, and provide recommendations for improvements
Lead security aspects of bid responses and opportunity identification
Demonstrate awareness of the latest cybersecurity threats, vulnerabilities and industry standard methodologies
Enable the development and growth of the Cyber Security team through mentoring of junior team members, supporting recruitment activities and encouraging engagement with the Cyber Security Community of Expertise.
Essential Skills
Successful track record leading teams within Security Engineering coupled with experience of leading large client engagements
Strong client management and relationship building experience
Ability to absorb complex information and communicate effectively at all levels to both technical and non-technical audiences, assess and evaluate risk and understand the implications of new technologies.
Good project management skills, with the ability to balance multiple initiatives and priorities simultaneously
SIEM experience with Azure Sentinel, Splunk & QRadar
Experience of running simulated or reacting to actual incidents, following procedures and good practice to limit, reduce and remediate
Strong leadership, influencing and people management skills
Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills coupled with ability to assess complex situations, identify risks, and recommend effective solutions
Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, at all levels from Executives to end users
Demonstrate significant personal responsibility or autonomy, with little need for escalation
CISSP-ISSEP (Information Systems Security Engineering Professional)
Other Cyber/information Security qualification (e.g. CISSP, CCSP, CCNA, SABSA)
Desirable Skills
Knowledge of; Cloud, on-prem, SaaS, PaaS, IaaS environments
Security incident response, code / malware analysis
Strong coding skills