Cyber Operations Threat Hunter

Softcat plc; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking company as a Threat Hunter in their Cyber Services Operations Team. This role offers you the chance to work in a dynamic environment, where you'll lead incident management and conduct proactive threat hunts. With a focus on collaboration and innovation, you'll have the opportunity to mentor junior team members and contribute to the development of detection capabilities. Enjoy flexible working patterns, a supportive team, and a strong commitment to diversity and inclusion. If you're looking to make a significant impact in the cybersecurity landscape, this opportunity is perfect for you.

Benefits

Pension

Share incentive plan

Life Assurance

Extra holiday on birthday

Incentive trips

Technology vouchers

Activity passes

Restaurant discount cards

Family benefits

Maternity/Paternity support

Qualifications

• Experience in SOC or Information Security team, especially in MSSP.
• Hands-on experience with SIEM platforms and incident management.

Responsibilities

• Lead Cyber Incident Management and Major Incidents.
• Conduct proactive threat hunts and create detection capabilities.

Skills

Incident Response

Threat Hunting

Cybersecurity

Risk Assessment

Mentoring

Education

Cybersecurity-focused degree

CISSP

CISM

OSCP

Tools

SIEM platforms

MS Sentinel

Splunk

AlienVault

ArcSight

Job description

Would you like to kick start your career in a supportive, collaborative, and innovative company?

Do you enjoy working as part of an enthusiastic, passionate, and collaborative team?

Join our Cyber Services Operations Team

You'll work alongside our engineering team to help identify tuning and optimisation opportunities, and with our wider team to support our customers through major incidents and investigations.

Success. The Softcat Way.

Softcat is a major UK success story in technology solutions. We're a £1 billion+ turnover business with offices nationwide and a sterling industry reputation. We help customers to use technology to succeed, by putting our employees first. Our success is down to our people – and the platform we give them to prove their potential.

As a Threat Hunter, you will be part of our 24/7 SOC, performing the highest level of Incident Response activities, proactive threat hunting, and development of detection and use-case capabilities.

You'll work alongside our engineering team to help identify tuning and optimisation opportunities, and with our wider team to support our customers through major incidents and investigations.

As a Threat Hunter, you'll be responsible for:

• Leading escalated Cyber Incident Management, including Major Incidents and 3rd line analysis for ongoing investigations.
• Carrying out proactive threat hunts, RCAs, creation of detection capabilities, and the development of playbooks for wider use across the team.
• Providing subject matter expertise regarding exploits, threat actors, TTPs, and the wider cyber security landscape.
• Identifying tuning and automation opportunities in existing platforms to drive efficiency.
• Providing on-call escalation support within the team.

We'd love you to have:

• Strong experience working in a SOC or Information Security team, especially in an MSSP environment.
• A Cybersecurity-focused degree, related qualifications such as CISSP, CISM, OSCP, or equivalent experience. Microsoft SC-200, SC-100, and related certifications are highly desirable.
• Hands-on experience with SIEM platforms, such as MS Sentinel, AlienVault, Splunk, or ArcSight.
• The ability to dynamically assess risks, threats, and threat actors for new and existing customers.
• The capability to support, train, and mentor junior team members, along with providing out-of-hours and escalation support.

Work in a way that works for you

We recognize that everyone is different and that the way in which people want to work and deliver at their best is different for everyone too. In this role, we can offer the following flexible working patterns:

• Hybrid working – a mixture of days in the office and days working from home.
• Working flexible hours – flexing the start and finish times during the day.
• Flexibility around school pick-up and drop-offs.

Working with us

Wherever you work, we want you to experience the freedom and autonomy to realize your potential. You will feel supported by a team that celebrates individuality, encourages different perspectives, and embraces every background.

To become part of the success story, please apply now.

If you have a disability or neurodiversity, we can provide support or adjustments that you may need throughout our recruitment process or any mitigating circumstances you wish us to consider. Any information you share on your application will be treated in confidence.

You can find out more about life at Softcat and our commitments to diversity and inclusion at jobs.softcat.com/jobs/our-culture/.

Here at Softcat, we don't prohibit the use of AI (artificial intelligence) in our application process, as we understand how far it can go to creating a truly equitable candidate experience. That being said, as a culture-driven organization, we believe that the genuine essence of each person is what truly matters, so we highly encourage you to be as authentically you as possible when submitting your application to showcase your true and whole self.

We also acknowledge that the confidence gap and imposter syndrome are real and can get in the way of us meeting fantastic talent, so please don't hesitate to apply – we would love to hear from you!

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We offer a competitive salary and benefits package and will provide you with opportunities to grow, flourish, and achieve great things. Our benefits include:

Pension

Share incentive plan

Life Assurance

Holiday

Two days extra holiday on top of your usual entitlement on your birthday and at Christmas.

Trips

Opportunities to qualify for director-hosted (often Michelin star) lunches as well as half and full-year incentive trips to places all over the world.

Vouchers

Technology vouchers, activity passes, restaurant discount cards.

Partner/family Benefits

Option to add your partner/family to some of the benefits.

Access to Perklife, our dedicated portal for all perks and flexible benefits.

Maternity, Paternity, and Adoption support