SOC Analyst - Incident Response & Cloud Security | Equity

Motorway; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 35,000 - 55,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Equity scheme - we all share in Motor­

25 days holiday

Flexible working (2 days a week in our

Private medical insurance via BUPA

Life assurance

Pension scheme (we contribute 5%)

Enhanced family leave (e.g. 26 weeks)

24/7 Employee Assistance Programme

EV leasing scheme

Cycle to work scheme

Nursery salary sacrifice scheme

1 paid volunteering day a year

Job summary

Motorway, the UK's largest online car-selling platform, is seeking a motivated Cyber Security Analyst to join our Security team and protect our systems, users and cloud environments. This hands-on role is ideal for someone with security operations experience who wants to broaden skills across incident response, vulnerability management and cloud security.

You will own routine security investigations, work with technical teams to resolve issues and escalate complex incidents to senior colleagues,

Qualifications

• 1-3 years of experience within Cyber Security, Security Operations, SOC or a similar technical security environment.
• Hands-on experience with cyber security technologies such as SIEM, EDR/XDR, vulnerability management or cloud security tools.
• Good understanding of security alert triage, incident investigation and common cyber threats.
• Understanding of networking fundamentals, Windows/Linux environments and cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure or GCP.
• Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills with the ability to clearly communicate and document investigation findings.
• Ability to independently manage routine security investigations while recognising when escalation is required.

Responsibilities

• Monitor, triage and investigate security alerts and incidents across SIEM, EDR, CrowdStrike and other security platforms.
• Investigate suspicious endpoint, email, identity and cloud activity and support incident response activities.
• Analyse security logs and indicators of compromise to identify potential threats.
• Support vulnerability management, remediation tracking and security improvement activities.
• Maintain clear investigation records, security tickets, runbooks and operational documentation.
• Collaborate with Security, IT, Engineering and Cloud teams to investigate and resolve security issues.

Skills

SIEM

EDR/XDR

Vulnerability management

Cloud security

Incident response

Networking fundamentals

Windows

Linux

AWS/Azure/GCP

Tools

CrowdStrike Falcon

Microsoft Defender

Google Chronicle

Microsoft Sentinel

Splunk

Job description

Motorway, the UK's largest online car-selling platform, is seeking a motivated Cyber Security Analyst to join our Security team and protect our systems, users and cloud environments. This hands-on role is ideal for someone with security operations experience who wants to broaden skills across incident response, vulnerability management and cloud security.

You will own routine security investigations, work with technical teams to resolve issues and escalate complex incidents to senior colleagues,