SOC Engineer

Job Title: SOC Engineer

Location: Glasgow (Hybrid working 2 days per week on site)

Salary - £45 - £48k plus benefits

Security clearance at SC level is required for this role

I am recruiting a SOC engineer for a client of mine who are an IT systems integrator operating within the UK defence sector. You will be part of a large SOC Transformation responsible for the support, management, configuration and maintenance of the specified security products and will have excellent technical skills.

What you will be doing:

• Support, management, configuration and maintenance of security products
• Responsible for availability, SIEM configuration, tuning, creating bespoke reports, capacity management, log on-boarding and ensuring that the SOC service technical infrastructure is effectively maintained
• Work at a detailed technical level with a number of Line of Service teams (i.e. Unix, Wintel, networks and desktop) when resolving issues

What you'll bring:

• SPLUNK SIEM - high level of skill
• E2E administration of the SPLUNK SIEM too
• TCP/IP and networking environments
• Cloud Environments
• Network protocols
• Packet analysis
• Network and host IDS monitoring
• Firewall architecture and hardening techniques
• Malware types
• Vulnerabilities and associated threats and exploits
• Syslog and Windows log formats

It would be great if you had:

• IDS and/or IPS (SNORT based systems)
• AV enterprise product suites
• VMware, Oracle Enterprise Linux, Containerisation models
• Active Directory and LDAP based user provisioning systems
• Virtualisation solutions
• Email gateways and lockdowns
• Alerting and monitoring tools/systems
• Proxy arrays or devices
• Oracle and MS SQL database solutions
• Oracle EBusiness Suite

If you are interested in this role or wish to apply please feel free to reply to this advert or call me on 01737 821029 or 07766 512829