Senior CSOC Response Lead: SOAR & Detection-as-Code

Manchester Digital; Salford; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 57,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days annual leave

Civil Service Pension

Reward scheme

Hybrid working

Job summary

Home Office is seeking a Senior Response Manager to join the Cyber Security Operations Centre (CSOC) as a Senior SOAR & Detection-as-Code (DaC) Analyst. You will design, develop and maintain security automation workflows and playbooks to improve detection and response capabilities.

You will work with SOC teams and other business areas to reduce manual effort, implement complex solutions for emerging threats and contribute to standards and process improvements.

Qualifications

• Experience in Security Operations Centre environments.
• Designing, developing and improving security automation workflows and playbooks.
• Ability to work with SOAR platforms and implement Detection-as-Code practices.

Responsibilities

• Carry out security monitoring, detection and response activities.
• Identify and investigate indicators of malicious activity across networks, systems and applications.
• Triage events, support investigations and improve monitoring and detection coverage .
• Support incident response activities including red teaming and threat hunting.
• Develop and improve monitoring use cases and alert content.
• Define and enhance processes, tooling and security controls to identify emerging threats.

Skills

Investigations in SOC

Security automation

DaC methodologies

Effective communication

Partnership building

Team management

Tools

SOAR platforms

Job description

Home Office is seeking a Senior Response Manager to join the Cyber Security Operations Centre (CSOC) as a Senior SOAR & Detection-as-Code (DaC) Analyst. You will design, develop and maintain security automation workflows and playbooks to improve detection and response capabilities.

You will work with SOC teams and other business areas to reduce manual effort, implement complex solutions for emerging threats and contribute to standards and process improvements.