Senior SOC Analyst | SIEM, Incident Response, SC Cleared

LA International; West Midlands; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

LA International is seeking an experienced SC cleared Senior SOC Engineer to join a busy team in the United Kingdom. You will bring a minimum of five years' SOC experience, mentor junior staff, and contribute to rapid incident response and threat detection.

This role emphasizes hands-on SIEM work (Splunk, MS Sentinel), log analysis (Wireshark), and strong knowledge of Windows and Linux systems, networking, encryption and vulnerability management.

Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years experience in a SOC environment.
• Hands-on experience creating security use cases, analytics, and playbooks.
• Experience with SIEM technologies (Splunk and MS Sentinel).
• Experience conducting security event triage and rapid incident response.
• Log analysis experience (Wireshark).
• Strong understanding of information security principles, threat detection, and remediation processes.
• Knowledge of Microsoft and Linux technologies, networking, encryption.
• Ability to think critically under pressure and respond effectively to fast-moving security incidents.
• Scripting or query experience (SPL, KQL).

Responsibilities

• Mentor more junior SOC staff.
• Create security use cases, analytics, and playbooks.
• Conduct security event triage and rapid incident response.
• Perform log analysis.
• Communicate clearly with stakeholders.

Skills

SOC experience

Mentoring junior staff

Security incident response

Log analysis

Communication skills

Critical thinking under pressure

Scripting or query (SPL, KQL)

Microsoft and Linux knowledge

Threat detection and remediation

Tools

Splunk

MS Sentinel

Wireshark

Job description

LA International is seeking an experienced SC cleared Senior SOC Engineer to join a busy team in the United Kingdom. You will bring a minimum of five years' SOC experience, mentor junior staff, and contribute to rapid incident response and threat detection.

This role emphasizes hands-on SIEM work (Splunk, MS Sentinel), log analysis (Wireshark), and strong knowledge of Windows and Linux systems, networking, encryption and vulnerability management.