Jobs in Luton, United Kingdom

Location: Remote (you must be based near London, Leeds, Manchester, or Gloucester)

Salary: Up to £42,000 DOE + £7,000 bonus

Clearance: You must be eligible for DV clearance.

Our client is expanding their cyber security function and is hiring a SOC Analyst to support the detection and investigation of complex threats across a large-scale environment. This is a Monday–Friday role with no shift work.

They’re looking for someone with at least a year of commercial SOC experience who’s confident working with Microsoft Sentinel and comfortable writing, adjusting, and analysing KQL queries for detection, investigation and threat-hunting.

• Monitor and analyse security events to identify threats, attacks and suspicious activity.
• Carry out full triage and investigation of alerts.
• Use KQL within Microsoft Sentinel to build analytics, detection rules, and conduct hunts for indicators of compromise.
• Contribute to SIEM / SOAR playbooks and improve detection capabilities.
• Document incidents, TTPs and root-cause findings.
• Work with internal and external stakeholders during investigations.
• Support continuous improvements to threat awareness and team capability.

• 12+ months commercial SOC experience.
• Strong Microsoft Sentinel experience.
• Confident using KQL for detection rules or threat-hunting.
• Understanding of intrusion analysis across Windows and Azure environments.
• Good grounding in MITRE ATT&CK, networking and core security principles.
• Ability to pick up new tools, techniques and attacker behaviours quickly.

If you have hands-on Sentinel and KQL experience and want a role where you can deepen your threat detection skills without shift work, we’d encourage you to apply.