Senior L3 SOC Analyst: Lead Detection, Threat Hunting & IR

Inchcape; Greater London; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Inchcape is seeking a Senior Security Analyst to join our Global Cyber Security team. In this L3 SOC role, you will serve as the senior technical escalation point for complex incidents and drive improvements across detection engineering, threat hunting, automation and incident response in a fast-paced, global environment.

You will work with cross‑functional teams to strengthen cyber resilience, design advanced monitoring across SIEM, EDR and cloud platforms, and mentor SOC colleagues as we

Qualifications

• Extensive senior SOC experience including L3, IR, threat hunting or detection engineering.
• Deep knowledge of SIEM, EDR, SOAR, cloud/identity/endpoint security.
• Proven leadership in incident investigation and response.
• Strong detection engineering and threat hunting, MITRE ATT&CK.
• Experience developing automation and orchestration for SOC.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management.

Responsibilities

• Act as senior escalation point for high-severity incidents with expert analysis.
• Lead technical response to major incidents with containment and recovery.
• Design and optimise detection rules, threat models and monitoring across SIEM, EDR and cloud.
• Conduct proactive threat hunting using threat intelligence and analytics.
• Develop security automation and SOAR playbooks to improve efficiency.
• Mentor SOC analysts and advance detection engineering and IR practices.

Skills

Senior SOC ops

Threat hunting

Detection engineering

Incident response

Mentoring

Stakeholder mgmt

Communication

Tools

SIEM

EDR

SOAR

Cloud security

Identity security

Endpoint security

Enterprise monitoring

Job description

Inchcape is seeking a Senior Security Analyst to join our Global Cyber Security team. In this L3 SOC role, you will serve as the senior technical escalation point for complex incidents and drive improvements across detection engineering, threat hunting, automation and incident response in a fast-paced, global environment.

You will work with cross‑functional teams to strengthen cyber resilience, design advanced monitoring across SIEM, EDR and cloud platforms, and mentor SOC colleagues as we