Senior Security Operations Analyst

DGH Recruitment Ltd.; Ouzlewell Green; Remote; GBP 65.000 - 90.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

DGH Recruitment Limited is recruiting for a Senior Security Operations Analyst to join a leading professional services client in the UK on a remote basis. The role focuses on continuous monitoring, incident response, and proactive threat detection across networks, cloud and endpoints.

Key duties include triage of alerts, threat hunting, and collaboration with the Detection and Automation team to tune rules and reduce false positives, plus Tier 1/2 support for secure email, web gateway, and

Qualifikationen

• 5+ years in Security Operations/SOC or Incident Response, including 24x7 or global environments.
• Experience across incident response, alert triage, threat hunting, DLP, and risk analysis.
• Experience with at least one major SIEM and EDR; proficiency in KQL/SPL; PowerShell/Python preferred.
• Experience with Security Orchestration and Automation.
• Certifications such as SC-200, AZ-500, GCIA/GCIH/GCDA or CISSP/CISM preferred.

Aufgaben

• Monitor, investigate, and triage security alerts, anomalies, indicators of compromise, and policy violations.
• Participate in continuous threat hunting activities using threat intelligence to identify threats and trends.
• Support detection engineering for alert tuning and automation to reduce false positives.
• Provide Tier 1 triage of secure email gateway alerts and phishing incidents and escalate/remediate accordingly.
• Provide Tier 2 operational support for web proxy and secure web gateway technologies.

Kenntnisse

SOC/IR experience

Incident response

Threat hunting

Automation & SOAR

KQL/SPL scripting

PowerShell/Python

24x7/global environment

Tools

SIEM

EDR

KQL

SPL

PowerShell

Python

SOAR

Jobbeschreibung

Senior Security Operations Analyst

DGH Recruitment are currently recruiting on behalf of a leading client in the Professional Services industry who require a Senior Security Operations Analyst to join the firm in Leeds on a remote basis.

You will be responsible for the continuous monitoring and analysis of data, alerts and reports to ensure timely and proactive escalation of potential events/items of interest.

Responsibilities:

• Monitor, investigate, and triage security alerts, anomalies, indicators of compromise, and policy violations correlating network, cloud, endpoint, and log-based activity to identify attacks, unauthorised use, and suspicious activity.
• Participate in continuous threat hunting activities, leveraging threat intelligence, and proactive analysis to identify suspicious activity, emerging threats, and attack trends.
• Work with Detection and Automation team to support development of detection alerts, security automation and recommendations for tuning of rules to reduce false positives.
• Provide Tier 1 triage of secure email gateway alerts and phishing incidents, escalating and remediating threats in accordance with established procedures.
• Provide Tier 2 operational support for web Proxy and secure web gateway technologies, including troubleshooting, root cause analysis, and implementation of corrective actions to maintain service reliability and security.

Required Skills:

• 5+ years in Security Operations/SOC or Incident Response, including in a 24×7 or global environment.
• Proven experience across incident response, alert triage, threat hunting, data loss prevention, and operational risk analysis.
• Demonstrable experience with at least one major SIEM and EDR platform, additional hands on KQL/SPL, PowerShell/Python experience preferred.
• Demonstrable experience with Security Orchestration and Automation.
• Certifications such as SC-200, AZ-500, GCIA/GCIH/GCDA or CISSP/CISM preferred.

Senior Security Operations Analyst

In accordance with the Employment Agencies and Employment Businesses Regulations 2003, this position is advertised based upon DGH Recruitment Limited having first sought approval of its client to find candidates for this position.

DGH Recruitment Limited acts as both an Employment Agency and Employment Business