Lead SOC Engineer/Senior IT Security Operations Centre Engineer - Worthing/WFH/Hybrid

£65,000 plus excellent benefits, bonus and career opportunities/Based Worthing, West Sussex with WFH opportunities, 1 or 2 days per week in the office

• This role will suit someone with around 5 years IT Security incident response experience, ideally from within a SOC/Security Operations Centre.
• This SOC is fairly new to the organisation and will provide the successful candidate a great platform to make the role their own and shape the team and build their policies/procedures around Security Operations - a great career opportunity.

Job Overview of the Lead SOC Engineer/Senior IT Security Operations Centre Engineer position:

• This role will perform senior Security Operational duties responsible for incident response and vulnerability management and other core capabilities.
• Responding immediately to security threats across the companies networks, using cutting edge technology to prevent, detect and analyse security incidents.
• Defend against malicious or unusual activity, this role will administer these capabilities by installing and maintaining infrastructure tools and related system software.
• You will be continuously improving application, system, and data security by proactively analysing, monitoring, and resolving related suspicious activity or behaviour and security incidents.
• Leading a team within Security operations/the new SOC, you will perform all procedures necessary to ensure the safety of information systems assets and to protect systems from intentional or inadvertent access or destruction.

Duties for the Lead SOC Engineer/Senior IT Security Operations Centre Engineer position:

• Respond to incidents and requests assigned to the SecOps team within SLAs in line with IT security standards.
• Provide information regarding intrusion events, security incidents, and other threat indications and warning information to teams.
• Perform in-depth analysis (Root Cause Investigation) of incidents and create a final incident report.
• Conduct proactive threat and compromise research and analysis.
• Participate and assist in planning, management and execution of vulnerability and risk assessment projects.

About You:

• The successful candidate will be a passionate information security professional with the ability to communicate to different business and IT leaders.
• The candidate will be able to execute the Information Security Incident Response and Vulnerability Management strategy.
• The candidate will demonstrate drive, intelligence, maturity, and energy and will have a proven dedicated desire and attitude towards Information security related topics.
• Monitor and analyse network traffic and security event data.

Required knowledge for the Lead SOC Engineer/Senior IT Security Operations Centre Engineer position:

• An understanding of adversary motivations including cybercrime, cyber hacktivism, cyber war, cyber espionage and the difference between cyber propaganda and cyber terrorism.
• An understanding of security operations concepts such as perimeter defence, kill chain analysis, Threat Intelligence and Threat Profiling.
• Familiarity with network security methodologies, tactics, techniques, and procedures.
• Experience with Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS)/Intrusion Protection Systems (IPS), SIEM and other network defence security tools.
• Experience performing security/vulnerability reviews of network environments.
• Experience with enterprise anti-virus/malware solutions, virus outbreak management and the ability to differentiate virus activity from directed attack patterns.
• Have experience monitoring, detecting and leading response efforts of advanced persistent threats.

Lead SOC Engineer/Senior IT Security Operations Centre Engineer - Worthing/WFH/Hybrid

£65,000 plus excellent benefits, bonus and career opportunities/Based Worthing, West Sussex with WFH opportunities, 1 or 2 days per week in the office