Security Operations Analyst, UK Strategy & Ops

Front Door Defense; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity grants

Benefits package

Job summary

Anduril Industries is seeking a Security Operations Analyst to lead security operations and incident response for UK environments in London. You will triage alerts, develop tailored detections, and drive a feedback loop with the detection engineering team to minimize false positives.

As a Senior SecOps Analyst, you may act as incident commander, conduct threat hunting, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to mature detection and response capabilities across Cloud, Endpoints and networks.

Qualifications

• Experience in security monitoring and log analysis across endpoints, networks and cloud services.

Responsibilities

• Triage and respond to alerts/incidents across phishing, endpoints, cloud and SaaS apps.
• Build and optimize detection signatures, playbooks, and automation.
• Lead feedback loop for detections to reduce false positives.
• Participate in threat modeling across Cloud, Mobile, Endpoints and environments.
• Organize threat hunting and data baselines to identify anomalies.
• Participate in on-call rotations and incident investigations with clear stakeholder communication.
• Mentor junior analysts and guide detection and response maturity.

Job description

Security Operations Analyst, UK

Lead security operations and incident response for Anduril's UK environments, coordinating across teams

Location: London, England

About The Role

London, England, United Kingdom

Anduril Industries is a defense technology company with a mission to transform U.S. and allied military capabilities with advanced technology. By bringing the expertise, technology, and business model of the 21st century's most innovative companies to the defense industry, Anduril is changing how military systems are designed, built and sold. Anduril's family of systems is powered by Lattice OS, an AI-powered operating system that turns thousands of data streams into a realtime, 3D command and control center. As the world enters an era of strategic competition, Anduril is committed to bringing cutting-edge autonomy, AI, computer vision, sensor fusion, and networking technology to the military in months, not years.

About The Team

Anduril's Detection and Response team is looking for a Security Operations Analyst to be the watchtower for Anduril's critical defense technologies. As a SecOps Analyst on the detection and response team, you'll be responsible for monitoring and responding to adversarial activity while helping incorporate key detection feedback loops with the detection engineering team. As a Senior SecOps Analyst, you will serve as an incident commander alongside other senior analysts. When not responding to threats, you'll be asking questions of our data sets, conducting threat hunting and data normalization operations across the organization to understand user behavior and identify anomalies.

What You'll Do

• Triage and respond to alerts / incidents covering multiple disciplines including, but not limited to, phishing, endpoints, cloud infrastructure and services, and SaaS applications
• Build and optimize tailored detection signatures, response playbooks, and response automation using detection-as-code principles
• As the frontline of DNR, you will lead the feedback loop for detections, ensuring alerts are fine tuned to reduce false positives
• Participate in threat modeling scenarios with cross-functional partners to understand weaknesses across Cloud, Mobile, Endpoints, and other environments incorporating findings into security controls and/or detection signatures
• Organize and conduct threat hunting and data baselines to identify anomalous patterns in data
• Participate in an on-call rotation responding to security events and conducting incident response investigations while effectively communicating findings to key stakeholders. As a Senior SecOps Analyst, you will serve as an incident commander as necessary.
• Proactively collaborate with a wide range of stakeholders, guiding detection and response maturity of key worlds, leading incidents and large-scale data baselines, and being responsible with mentoring and guiding junior analysts.

Required Qualifications

• Experience in security monitoring, log analysis, and detection engineering within large data sets across endpoint, network, and a wide variety of application log sources
• Experience in Python development, specifically contributing to a shared codebase used for automating SOC operations
• Must have experience with one or more SIEM languages (SPL, KQL, SQL)
• Experience conducting analysis in a data lake environment
• Broad range of practical security knowledge across the spectrum of endpoint, network, identity, application, and cloud infrastructure
• Knowledge of attacker tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) across Windows, Linux, MacOS, AWS/Azure, etc.
• Strong communication skills and experience collaborating with internal and external stakeholders
• Must be able to obtain and hold a UK Security Clearance

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience conducting incident response in the Cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP)
• Digital Forensics and/or reverse engineering experience is a plus!

The salary range for this role is an estimate based on a wide range of compensation factors, inclusive of base salary only. Actual salary offer may vary based on (but not limited to) work experience, education and/or training, critical skills, and/or business considerations. Highly competitive equity grants are included in the majority of full time offers; and are considered part of Anduril's total compensation package. Additionally, Anduril offers top-tier benefits for full-time employees, including:

Benefits

At Anduril, we invest in our people. Our comprehensive, competitive benefits package (available at little to no cost to employees) ensures you're supported in health, recovery, and whatever comes next. For more information, Explore Our Benefits.

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