SOC Technical Lead

DGH Recruitment; City Of London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading recruitment firm is seeking a SOC Technical Lead in City Of London. The role focuses on incident response and SOC engineering, requiring strong cloud security expertise. Candidates should have over 8 years of information security experience, specifically in threat detection and SOC monitoring tools. This full-time position demands on-site work for 4 days a week, attracting professionals with a passionate drive for cybersecurity.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in information security with a focus on SOC and incident response.
• In-depth knowledge of IR/SOC monitoring tools and architecture.
• Experience with cloud security technologies and related log analysis.

Responsibilities

• Drive continuous monitoring and incident response as a senior SOC resource.
• Configure tools and platforms for IR/SOC systems.
• Improve security logging and monitoring solutions.

Skills

Incident response

SOC engineering

Cloud security (AWS, Azure, GCP)

Threat detection/hunting

Tools

SIEM

SOAR

IDS/IPS

DLP

Endpoint security

Job description

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Role

SOC Technical Lead (Incident Response / GIAC)

Please note: This role will require 4 days per week on site.

Overview

Reporting into the Security Operations Centre Senior Manager, the role will develop and integrate the Incident Response (IR) / SOC security infrastructure to monitor both on premise and cloud environments. The role will serve as a critical bridge between operations and engineering.

Responsibilities

• Drive and improve continuous monitoring and incident response, serving as a senior resource in the SOC and Incident Response processes.
• Configure and integrate platforms, tools, service providers, and solutions into IR/SOC systems, make recommendations as needed.
• Consolidate and improve security logging and monitoring solutions on premise and in the cloud to detect and respond to security threats in real time.
• Drive efforts to automate and accelerate the detection and response processes.
• Ensure integration of input from the deployed suite of security tools to SOC systems (e.g. SIEM/SOAR), including, but not limited to, IDS/IPS, End Point Protection, MDR/XDR, PAM, MFA, DNS Security, and cloud security posture management.

Required Skills / Experience

• 8+ years of hands-on experience in information security related responsibilities with a strong focus on SOC engineering, incident response, and threat detection/hunting.
• In-depth knowledge of IR/SOC monitoring, alerting and investigation tools platforms, process, and architecture
• Experience working with cloud security technologies (AWS, Azure DevOps, Kubernetes, GCP, etc) including cloud log analysis, monitoring, detection, and incident response.
• Experience with SOC use of SIEM, SOAR, IDS/IPS, DLP, and Endpoint security.

Seniority level

• Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Full-time

Job function

• Information Technology

Industries

• Professional Services and Legal Services

City Of London, England, United Kingdom – notice of opportunities and postings may be shown for location relevance.

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