Soc Analyst

ASOS; City Of London; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading online fashion retailer is seeking a skilled SOC Analyst to join their SOC team in London. This role will involve monitoring security events, conducting malware analysis, and improving security practices across the organization. Candidates should have relevant SOC experience, a strong understanding of information security, and excellent communication skills. This position requires a commitment to continuous learning and offers various employee benefits.

Benefits

Employee discount

Personal development opportunities

Private medical care

Flexible benefits allowance

Qualifications

• Previous experience in a SOC Analyst role.
• Understanding of Information Security principles.
• Working knowledge of detection signatures and IOCs.

Responsibilities

• Be the first point of contact for security events and incidents.
• Conduct malware analysis and endpoint monitoring.
• Liaise with other teams to promote security best practices.

Skills

Cloud technologies

SIEM tools

EDR tools

XDR tools

Communication skills

Job description

Overview

ASOS is recruiting for a skilled SOC Analyst within the SOC team. This role will report into the SOC and IR Manager and be core to reactively protecting ASOS from threat actors, whilst proactively improving the security posture of the organisation. This is a skilled role, requiring an excellent grasp of cloud native technologies with essential skills and technical understanding of a wide range of security technologies such as SIEM, EDR and XDR tools.

Responsibilities

• Be the first point of contact for security events, anomalies, incidents, and investigations
• Endpoint monitoring and detailed alert triaging/response
• Malware analysis
• Alert fatigue initiatives and tuning
• Liaising with other teams to promote best practice and foster a shared culture of security responsibility
• Maintain awareness of real-world cyber security threats and engage in the innovation of new analytic methods for detecting threats
• This role requires rotational on call work out of hours

Working practices

We believe being together in person helps us move faster, connect more deeply, and achieve more as a team. That’s why our approach to working together includes spending at least 2 days a week in the office. It’s a rhythm that speeds up decision-making, helps ASOSers learn from each other more quickly, and builds the kind of culture where people can grow, create, and succeed.

Qualifications

• Previous experience in SOC Analyst role
• Understanding of Information Security principles
• Good written and verbal communication skills
• Working knowledge detection signatures, Indicators of Compromise (IOCs), and other content to detect malicious activity
• Experience in developing processes based on previous investigations to help operations run more efficiently
• Committed to continuous learning and professional development

Benefits

• Employee discount (hello ASOS discount!)
• ASOS Develops (personal development opportunities across the business)
• Employee sample sales
• Access to a huge range of LinkedIn learning materials
• 25 days paid annual leave + an extra celebration day for a special moment
• Discretionary bonus scheme
• Private medical care scheme
• Flexible benefits allowance - which you can choose to take as extra cash, or use towards other benefits

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