Senior Cyber Security Analyst

Context Recruitment Limited; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 72,000 - 88,000; Full time

Job summary

Context Recruitment Limited in London is seeking a Senior Cyber Security Analyst to join a global entertainment organisation. The role is hybrid (3 days on-site) and focuses on vulnerability management, security monitoring and incident response.

You will work with a small, capable team to strengthen the security posture and respond to threats. The successful candidate will have strong SOC experience at Tier 2/3, expertise in Microsoft Entra/M365 security, and a track record across cloud and

Qualifications

• Experience in a SOC at Tier 2/3 level.
• Handling incidents independently with technical decisions.
• End-to-end vulnerability management experience.
• Strong knowledge of Microsoft Entra, IAM and hardening.
• Experience securing cloud and on-prem environments.
• Understanding attacker tactics, techniques and procedures.
• Experience with Defender XDR, SIEM, EDR, VM and SOAR platforms.
• Familiarity with MITRE ATT&CK, CVSS, CISA KEV and NIST.
• Ability to query and analyse structured security data.
• Broad IT background across infrastructure, systems, networking or IT support.

Responsibilities

• Investigate and respond to security alerts and incidents at Tier 2/3 level.
• Own and improve the Vulnerability Management lifecycle across discovery to remediation.
• Drive Exposure Management across cloud, on-prem and third-party environments.
• Collaborate with teams to remediate vulnerabilities in line with business risk.
• Monitor and respond to threats in Microsoft Entra and M365.
• Support security hardening, IAM and deployment across Microsoft environment.
• Investigate security events using Defender XDR and EDR tooling.
• Analyse structured security and log data to identify malicious activity.
• Assist with major cyber security incidents and coordinate responses.
• Utilise threat intelligence to identify emerging risks.
• Support Security Risk Management including third-party assessments.
• Improve detection capability with MITRE ATT&CK-aligned engineering.
• Identify opportunities to automate SOC processes using SOAR and AI tooling.

Skills

SOC experience

Vulnerability management

Security monitoring

Incident response

Microsoft Entra

Cloud security

On-prem security

Threat intelligence

MITRE ATT&CK

SOAR tooling

Tools

Defender XDR

SIEM

EDR

Vulnerability Management

SOAR

Job description

Senior Cyber Security Analyst
London (hybrid working, 3 days per week onsite)
Up to £80,000 PA plus bonus

Extremely exciting enterprise-scale, global entertainment organisation seeking an experienced, Senior Security Analyst to join a growing security team, taking a key role across vulnerability and exposure management, security monitoring, incident response and risk.You'll be working with closely with a small, highly dedicated, highly capable team.
This is a broad, hands-on position and would suit someone who has built strong technical experience within a SOC, but who does not want to be limited to one narrow area of Security Operations.
You'll work across a predominantly Microsoft environment, helping to detect and respond to security threats, manage vulnerabilities end to end, improve security tooling and strengthen the organisation's overall security posture.

Responsibilities

• Investigate and respond to security alerts and incidents at Tier 2/3 level, using your own technical judgement rather than simply following predefined playbooks
• Own and continuously improve the Vulnerability Management lifecycle, covering discovery, analysis, prioritisation, remediation and tracking
• Drive wider Exposure Management activity across cloud, on-premise and third-party environments
• Work closely with technical teams and system owners to ensure vulnerabilities are understood and remediated in line with business risk
• Monitor and respond to threats across Microsoft Entra and M365, including identity-related incidents and account compromise
• Support security hardening, IAM, architecture and deployment activity across the Microsoft environment
• Investigate security events using platforms including Microsoft Defender XDR and EDR tooling
• Analyse structured security and log data to identify malicious or suspicious activity.
• Support the management of major Cyber Security incidents and coordinate response activity with relevant stakeholders
• Use threat intelligence to identify emerging risks and drive proactive security activity.
• Support Security Risk Management activities, including third-party security assessments.
• Help improve detection capability, including opportunities around MITRE ATT&CK-aligned detection engineering
• Identify opportunities to automate repetitive SOC processes using SOAR, orchestration and AI-assisted tooling

Requirements

• Strong previous experience working within a SOC environment, ideally at Tier 2 or Tier 3 level
• Experience handling security incidents independently and making technical decisions during investigations
• Strong end-to-end Vulnerability Management experience, covering discovery, analysis and remediation
• Strong technical knowledge of Microsoft Entra, including security monitoring, incident response, IAM and hardening
• Experience securing both cloud and on-premise environments
• Strong understanding of attacker tactics, techniques and procedures
• Experience working with technologies such as Defender XDR, SIEM, EDR, Vulnerability Management and SOAR platforms
• Familiarity with security and vulnerability frameworks (e.MITRE ATT&CK, CVSS, CISA KEV and NIST)
• Ability to query and analyse structured security and log data
• A broader technical IT background, ideally across areas such as infrastructure, systems administration, networking or IT support