Senior SOC Analyst - Hybrid (Belfast)

Capita; Belfast City District; Ibrido; GBP 65.000 - 90.000; Tempo pieno

Vantaggi offerti da questo lavoro

Hybrid – 2 days in Belfast office

Competitive salary

25 days holiday + 2 days pro rata

Volunteer day

Family leave policies

Cycle to work

Pension

Life Assurance

Descrizione del lavoro

Capita is seeking an experienced Level 3 SOC Analyst to join a hybrid Belfast team. The role involves handling security incidents escalated from Tier 1/2, triaging threat intelligence, and guiding response actions based on business impact.

You will manage SIEM platforms (IBM QRadar, Microsoft Sentinel, MDE/MDI, Defender for Cloud) and mentor junior analysts, while contributing to Major Incident Response and architectural onboarding of new systems.

Competenze

• Level 3 SOC Analyst / Senior Cyber Security and security operations experience.
• Experience of onboarding, tuning, reporting and configuring SIEM solutions
• Experience of threat intelligence
• Leadership and mentoring experience and skills
• Understanding of low-level concepts including operating systems and networking
• Commercial experience in Penetration Testing and / or Security Monitoring
• Understanding of networking and infrastructure design
• Knowledge/experience of one or more System administration (Linux, Windows, Mac)
• Self‑motivated individual with flexible approach to working.
• Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to explain technical problems to non‑technical business stakeholders at all levels.
• Active or ability to obtain SC clearance

Mansioni

• Oversee completion of day-to-day checklist(s), including log review, management report scheduling & running, alert analysis, and escalation follow up
• Remain current on cyber security trends and intelligence to guide the security analysis & identification capabilities of the CSOC team
• Provide oversight, guidance and mentoring to L2 & L3 analysts, and fulfil SOC Manager responsibilities in the absence of the SOC Manager
• Oversee a number of analysts as part of a virtual team of L1 and L2 analysts, including objectives setting, performance management / reviews, training & development, and BAU activities including shift cover
• Perform advanced event and incident analysis, including baseline establishment and trend analysis
• Support on-call arrangements as part of a Rota, to support L1 Analysts working out of hours
• Support Major Incident Response activity, from a Protective Monitoring perspective, including supporting teams in identification, containment, and remediation of security related threat
• Provide timely advice and guidance on the response action plans for events and incidents based on incident type and severity
• Identify, create and implement improvements to procedures and processes, with the SOC Manager’s approval
• Identify opportunities for SOC and client SIEM platform configuration improvements, use case development, monitoring rule creation, tuning & optimization
• Stakeholder and Client Reporting, and engagement
• Assist in architectural design to facilitate the onboarding of new information systems, including the assessment, parsing, onboarding of log sources, and use case and rule development

Conoscenze

SOC Analyst experience

Leadership & mentoring

Threat intelligence

SIEM knowledge

Analytical thinking

Strumenti

IBM QRadar

Microsoft Sentinel

MDE

MDI

Defender for Cloud

Descrizione del lavoro

Capita is seeking an experienced Level 3 SOC Analyst to join a hybrid Belfast team. The role involves handling security incidents escalated from Tier 1/2, triaging threat intelligence, and guiding response actions based on business impact.

You will manage SIEM platforms (IBM QRadar, Microsoft Sentinel, MDE/MDI, Defender for Cloud) and mentor junior analysts, while contributing to Major Incident Response and architectural onboarding of new systems.