Senior Security Analyst & Threat Detection Lead

Made Tech Limited; United Kingdom; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Made Tech Limited’s Cyber practice seeks a Lead Security Analyst to set the technical direction for the SOC and own the quality of detections, threat hunting, and incident response on the engagement.

You’ll shape the threat landscape, drive the detection backlog, and build the analysts around you, pairing on complex investigations and ensuring detections are version‑controlled and peer‑reviewed for continuous improvement.

Qualifications

• One of CISSP/CISM/CASP+ or equivalent senior credential.
• Experience leading detection engineering in a SOC or similar environment, including writing and tuning detections and coverage against MITRE ATT&CK.
• Experience designing or improving a log and telemetry pipeline, including cloud‑hosted services (AWS preferred).
• Experience running the intelligence cycle as a managed discipline: collection planning, production, feedback.
• Knowledge of UK government security standards and frameworks (NCSC CAF Objective C, GovAssure, OFFICIAL handling).
• Experience growing the capability of less experienced analysts through pairing and mentoring.

Responsibilities

• Set the detection engineering standard: author, tune, peer‑review detections; manage false positives; map to MITRE ATT&CK; train L1/L2 analysts.
• Own the threat‑landscape narrative for your engagement; translate advisories and threat intel into hunt themes and detection priorities.
• Run the intelligence cycle as a managed discipline with a collection plan, timely products, and feedback loops.
• Establish and lead security incident response practice: playbooks, severity models, exercises, and blameless post‑mortems.
• Design the log/telemetry pipeline for detections, including application telemetry in cloud environments (AWS).
• Be the trusted interface for client security stakeholders; communicate detections and risks clearly with fidelity.
• Grow the analysts around you through pairing and structured mentoring; build team capability.
• Contribute detection content, runbooks, and lessons learned back into shared practice resources.

Skills

CISSP

CISM

CASP+

Detection engineering leadership

Incident response leadership

Threat landscape storytelling

Mentoring junior analysts

Client-facing communication

Tools

KQL

SPL

EQL

Sigma

MITRE ATT&CK mapping

AWS telemetry design

Job description

Made Tech Limited’s Cyber practice seeks a Lead Security Analyst to set the technical direction for the SOC and own the quality of detections, threat hunting, and incident response on the engagement.

You’ll shape the threat landscape, drive the detection backlog, and build the analysts around you, pairing on complex investigations and ensuring detections are version‑controlled and peer‑reviewed for continuous improvement.