Senior Security Analyst: Lead Incident Response & Threat Hunting

ANS Group; Manchester; Presencial; GBP 60 000 - 90 000; Tempo integral

Resumo da oferta

ANS Group is seeking a Senior Security Analyst to lead complex cyber security responses and act as the highest technical escalation point within our SOC. You will investigate, contain incidents, hunt threats, and enhance detection across SIEM, SOAR, EDR/XDR, cloud and identity platforms.

You will also contribute to automation, playbooks, service improvements and mentor the team, with on-call duties and potential overtime. Strong reporting and customer-facing delivery are essential.

Qualificações

• Experience within a SOC, MDR, MSSP or cyber security operations environment.
• Proven ability to investigate high-severity security incidents.
• Hands-on experience with SIEM, EDR and customer-facing incident response.
• Comfortable producing technical reports and mentoring junior analysts.

Responsabilidades

• Lead major incident investigations, response and customer communications.
• Analyse and remediate threats across SIEM, EDR/XDR, cloud and identity platforms.
• Produce incident reports, root cause analysis and response recommendations.
• Proactively hunt for threats and investigate emerging attack techniques.
• Leverage threat intelligence to improve detection and response capabilities.
• Develop and optimise detections, analytics and SOAR playbooks.
• Improve alert quality, monitoring visibility and response automation.
• Support onboarding of new security tools and log sources.
• Act as the senior escalation point for SOC analysts.
• Mentor junior team members and uphold investigation quality.
• Provide technical expertise during customer incidents and reviews.
• Deliver security findings, recommendations and service guidance.
• Maintain compliance with SLAs, processes and documentation standards.

Conhecimentos

SOC experience

Incident response

Threat hunting

MITRE ATT&CK

Cloud security

PowerShell scripting

Python scripting

Ferramentas

SIEM

SOAR

EDR/XDR

Cloud platforms

Identity security

KQL

Descrição da oferta de emprego

ANS Group is seeking a Senior Security Analyst to lead complex cyber security responses and act as the highest technical escalation point within our SOC. You will investigate, contain incidents, hunt threats, and enhance detection across SIEM, SOAR, EDR/XDR, cloud and identity platforms.

You will also contribute to automation, playbooks, service improvements and mentor the team, with on-call duties and potential overtime. Strong reporting and customer-facing delivery are essential.