SOC Analyst - Hemel Hempstead - Defence

• Location: Hemel Hempstead office based
• Shifts: 2 Days, 2 nights, 4 days off (12 hour shifts)
• Security Clearance Level: Eligible for SC and DV Clearance
• Salary: £60,000 - £65,000 per annum

Benefits: 25 days annual leave with the choice to buy additional days, health cash plan, life assurance, pension, and generous flexible benefits fund

What you'll be doing:

• Monitor, triage, and investigate security incidents on critical client infrastructure
• In-depth analysis of network traffic, logs, and system events to identify potential security threats and vulnerabilities
• Provide Incident Response support
• Maintain, improve and develop team knowledge of SOC tools, security operations and triage.
• Prepare reports for managed clients to both technical and non-technical audiences and continuously improve their content and presentation.
• Maintain and update security incident documentation, including incident reports, analysis findings, and recommended mitigation strategies.

What you'll bring:

• Demonstrable experience in Security Operations Centre
• Demonstrable experience of Managing Microsoft Sentinel and Splunk implementations
• Knowledge and experience with Mitre Att&ck Frameworku
• Solid grasp of client-server applications, multi-tier web applications, relational databases, firewalls, VPNs, and enterprise AntiVirus products.
• Deep technical knowledge in the analysis of log data and intrusion detection systems
• Solid understanding of networking principles including TCP/IP, WANs, LANs, and commonly used Internet protocols such as SMTP, HTTP, FTP, POP, LDAP

It would be great if you had:

• Understanding of static malware analysis and reverse engineering
• CREST Practitioner Intrusion Analyst
• Experience with SIEM technologies, namely Sentinel and Splunk, with some experience with QRadar appreciated.

SOC Analyst - Hemel Hempstead - Defence