SOC Engineer – Cyber

Cyber UK; Birmingham; Hybrid; GBP 35,000 - 40,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Large company benefits

Broad flexible benefits scheme

2 paid-for volunteering days a year

Job summary

A leading IT security firm in Birmingham is seeking a SOC Engineer to enhance operational security capabilities through monitoring and managing security tools. As a key member of the security team, you will focus on technical expertise, handling incidents, and providing technical guidance on best practices. This permanent position offers a salary between £35k and £40k, alongside a broad flexible benefits scheme, and supports hybrid working arrangements.

Qualifications

• Solid understanding of malware, threats, and vulnerability management.
• Drive policy and process maintenance while managing workload effectively.
• Strong quality focus, ensuring accuracy and meeting deadlines.

Responsibilities

• Act as the technical engineering SME for the SOC team.
• Provide technical guidance and support for security technologies.
• Document implementations through technical documentation and run books.

Skills

Cyber security comprehension

Communication skills

Critical thinking

Problem-solving

Analytical skills

Technical presentation skills

Linux familiarity

Windows OS familiarity

Cloud provider ecosystem knowledge

Education

Achieved SC Clearance

Job description

About The Role

We are actively building diverse teams and welcome applications from everyone.
Role: SOC Engineer.
Location: Birmingham (SCC operates hybrid working, which comprises a mix of office and home working).
Contract Type: Permanent.
Salary Package: 35k – 40k plus large company benefits, a broad flexible benefits scheme, and 2 paid‑for volunteering days a year.
Hours: 9.00 am – 5.30 pm Monday – Friday.
Interview Process: 2‑stage process.
Why SCC?

• Inclusive workplace
• Excellent package: solid basic and company benefits
• Hybrid working & core hours in line with role requirements
• Career development and life‑long learning opportunities
• Opportunity to join Europe’s largest privately‑owned IT company

Role purpose

The evolving security landscape brings new challenges and opportunities, making strong customer support essential to SCC Cyber’s success as an MSSP.
The SOC Engineer role provides the chance to work closely with the business across a wide range of managed security services, including MDR and XDR.
The position focuses on delivering technical expertise to maintain and enhance operational security capabilities—monitoring the IT environment, managing security tools, and handling incidents.
As part of the core security team, the role also contributes to continual service improvement within the SOC, ensuring SCC customers receive efficient, compliant, and best‑in‑class security services.

Key responsibilities

• Be the technical engineering subject‑matter expert (SME) for the SOC team focused across SIEM, Vulnerability Scanning, EDR / MDR and other Security Technologies
• Perform business as usual and Project/Onboarding support for the security technologies, e.g., log source health offence triage, tuning, vulnerability scanning for investigation into findings and remediation, and general industry knowledge to support the security deliverables across other services
• Ensure appropriate governance and checking of access to our technology solutions is in place
• Provide technical guidance and assurance to colleagues in the SOC, ensuring remediation, response and general advice is accurate and actionable
• Stay abreast of emerging security threats, vulnerabilities, and controls, providing technical guidance and advice on threat response plans
• Provide technical consultancy support in the development of the security technologies, processes and procedures, including the development of ‘Playbooks’ to ensure best practice is implemented when possible
• Ensure defined technical compliance functional requirements for each onboarding project and that they are fulfilled prior to going into service
• Understand the implications of standards and regulations such as GDPR, ISO27001, NCSC Cloud Security Principles, and NIS2 to inform decision making
• Responsible for documentation of implementations, via technical documentation and run books

Skills and experience

• Solid and demonstrable comprehension of cyber security including malware, emerging threats, attacks, vulnerability management and standard accreditation frameworks
• Possess excellent communication, presentational, critical thinking, problem‑solving, analytical and prioritisation skills
• Drive policy, process and procedure, maintenance, and improvement
• Own workload, ensuring work is delivered on time and exceeds management’s expectations
• Have a strong emphasis on quality, accuracy and meeting deadlines
• Be a self‑starter and proactive in driving forward security for the benefit of the business
• Possess strong briefing and technical skills to present at all levels and across the business and its customers
• Have already achieved SC Clearance or are undergoing the process for SC Clearance
• Strong familiarity with Linux and Windows operating systems and cloud provider ecosystem

About You

SCC is Europe’s largest privately‑owned IT business, based out of the new £7m HQ office in Birmingham and we help clients succeed through IT transformation and exceptional customer experiences. We are a business where innovation is greater as we combine unique ideas, people and disciplines. We are a global company that is passionate about IT and where we look to simplify the complex.

SCC is an equal opportunities employer. We are committed to providing equal opportunities and a proactive and inclusive approach to equality and diversity in employment. No applicant or employee will be treated less favourably than another on the grounds of a protected characteristic such as sex, sexual orientation, age, disability, gender reassignment, trade union membership or non‑membership, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race and religion or belief. If you are selected for interview and need any reasonable adjustments made for your interview, please let the SCC Talent Acquisition team know at the point of scheduling.

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