Senior SOC Lead: Incident Response & Detection

Pearson; Olympia (WA); Hybrid; USD 119,000 - 159,000; Full time

Job summary

Pearson is seeking a Senior Security Analyst to lead day-to-day security operations, drive process improvements, and advance detection engineering across Pearson’s environments. You will ensure rapid incident response, automation, and collaboration with internal and external partners to protect critical assets.

Responsibilities include leading SOC operations, developing detection logic and automation, and delivering executive-level reporting while aligning with Pearson’s standards and regulatory

Qualifications

• Experience in security operations, incident response, and detection engineering (4+ years).
• Hands-on expertise with SOAR, EDR, NDR, and SIEM technologies.
• Experience with one or more Cloud Service Providers (AWS, Azure, GCP).

Responsibilities

• Lead advanced SOC operations including incident detection, triage, containment and root-cause analysis.
• Develop, implement and optimize detection logic, playbooks and automated response workflows.
• Continuously assess and enhance SOC processes and procedures.
• Collaborate with threat intelligence teams and translate findings for stakeholders.
• Deliver executive-level reporting, risk assessments and metrics.

Skills

Security operations

Incident response

Detection engineering

SIEM

SOAR

Cloud services

Stakeholder management

EDR

NDR

Tools

AWS

Azure

GCP

Job description

Pearson is seeking a Senior Security Analyst to lead day-to-day security operations, drive process improvements, and advance detection engineering across Pearson’s environments. You will ensure rapid incident response, automation, and collaboration with internal and external partners to protect critical assets.

Responsibilities include leading SOC operations, developing detection logic and automation, and delivering executive-level reporting while aligning with Pearson’s standards and regulatory