Cyber Security Analyst – 24/7 SOC & Incident Response

Northern Powergrid; Leeds; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 55,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days holiday

10% Performance Bonus

Job summary

Northern Powergrid is seeking a Cyber Security Analyst to join the Digital & Innovation team in the UK. You will play a critical role in 24x7 security monitoring, incident response, and continuous improvement of cyber protection across IT and cloud environments.

With a focus on SIEM operations, endpoint security, and threat detection, you will lead investigations, tune detections, and support threat hunting.

Qualifications

• 3-5+ years working in information security, SOC operations, or hands-on SOC experience.
• High level understanding of IT and operating systems (Microsoft and Linux).
• Experience coaching or leading junior team members is advantageous.
• Demonstrated experience with SIEM tools, network security, and incident response processes.
• Ability in alert triage, threat analysis, log analysis, and vulnerability management.

Responsibilities

• Lead investigation of complex SIEM, endpoint, email and network alerts using triage playbooks.
• Own incidents end-to-end (enrichment, impact, containment, recovery) with auditable evidence.
• Perform advanced log and forensic analysis across Microsoft, Linux, cloud and security tooling.
• Investigate phishing, malware, vulnerabilities and advanced threats.
• Develop and tune detection use cases, reducing false positives and improving coverage.
• Configure and manage endpoint security tooling (EDR/XDR) including policy tuning.
• Support firewall and network security engineering and contribute to tooling improvements.
• Maintain incident records and knowledge articles aligned to audit and regulatory needs.
• Support threat hunting and proactive identification of risks and control gaps.

Skills

Information security

SOC operations

SIEM tools

Incident response

Threat analysis

Log analysis

Microsoft Windows

Linux

Communication

Education

RFQ Level 5 (HNC/D) in Cyber Security or related

Bachelor’s degree in Cyber Security (preferred)

Tools

QRadar

XSOAR

Microsoft Sentinel

Palo Alto Firewalls

Job description

Northern Powergrid is seeking a Cyber Security Analyst to join the Digital & Innovation team in the UK. You will play a critical role in 24x7 security monitoring, incident response, and continuous improvement of cyber protection across IT and cloud environments.

With a focus on SIEM operations, endpoint security, and threat detection, you will lead investigations, tune detections, and support threat hunting.