SOC Analyst

Edenhale ,
Warrington, Cheshire
Salary: From £35,000 to £43,000 per annum Plus bonus, shares, medical, pension

Overview

Role title: Security Infrastructure Analyst Reports to: Security Operations Manager SIEM, Vulnerability, AWS, Threat Detection, Office 365 Role Purpose: Monitor and analyse security infrastructure, assist in threat analysis, produce reports, participate in deploying new technologies, feed service improvements to the team. Accountabilities: · Day to day monitoring and administration of security controls around tooling solutions and Cloud based systems such as Office 365, AWS, Azure. · Day to day monitoring of security controls around tooling solutions e.g. SIEM, Brand Protection, Privileged Access Management, Vulnerability Scanning, Threat Detection and Intelligence. · Monitor the security services to ensure that patching, security controls and mechanisms are operating effectively – investigate issues and escalate to providers where appropriate. · Ensures security services data is available for analysis by the SecOps team · Assist in developing, maturing and managing the existing operational processes for runbooks to be created or automated where possible · Responsible for security IT services licence management · Updating asset management Db’s to ensure security IT services are maintained accurately · Assist in maintaining security supplier management procedures and work instructions for our IT operational services · Liaising with IT teams to provide support services and manage SLA’s of services provided ensuring regular communication with stakeholders. · Assist in delivering security reviews to ensure the integrity, confidentiality, and availability of information to end users is not compromised · Proposes improvements within the scope of the Security Operations Security team that will lead to automation, standardisation, and consolidation for ease of support and maintenance · Create working relationships with business owners to deliver and enhance the service. · Takes ownership in obtaining information, evidence and data required to diagnose and resolve complex problems · Proactively analyses trends and reports to highlight potential problems, maintain and enhance service. · Flexible member of the security operations team to provide knowledge, assistance and advice with other members · Maintains awareness of technical and service developments, taking the initiative to extend own knowledge to learn about products, technologies and techniques to deliver enhanced service. Skills and Abilities: The candidate must have an understanding of security technologies, curious investigative mind, a general interest in information security, and the ability to communicate complex ideas to varied audiences. Useful skills: O365 OME and Secure score, O365 Security & Compliance, AWS, AWS: Native, AWF WAF, Azure: Native, Active Directory: Azure AD, Agari, Cofence – Phishme, WatchGuard, PaPa, Nessus, Trend Micro, Jira, Splunk, AWS Guard Duty, Bitlocker, MS Defender, Trend Micro This job was originally posted as www.cwjobs.co.uk/job/89934850