SC Cleared - SOC Analyst/Engineer - Remote

SOC Analyst/Engineer

• IR35: Inside
• Location: Remote
• Rate: £400 – £450
• Clearance: SC Cleared (Active)

Sanderson G&D are seeking a SOC Analyst with a background in IT Engineering to join an existing project.

Key responsibilities

• Responsible for ensuring the effective and timely triage of all security alerts
• Responsible for maintaining and developing risk-led threat detection capabilities to quickly detect and respond to risky behaviors and event.
• Review and approve new Use Cases and Playbooks created by cybersecurity colleagues

Knowledge and experience

• 5 years or more experience in IT with a particular emphasis on infrastructure and security ideally in a SOC analyst role.
• Extensive and active knowledge and hands on experience of Microsoft Sentinel particularly, incident triage, setting up and maintaining analytical rules, using KQL to hunt across logs, logic apps experience. Creating queries and utilising workbooks
• Excellent understanding and experience of Microsoft Defender components.
• Good knowledge of Active Directory, Windows event logs, network logs and Azure audit logs, Office 365, Cloud Apps and DNS
• Excellent documentation skills particularly around creating and maintaining SOC playbooks.
• Previous experience with collecting and analysing forensic evidence from endpoints and cloud environments

Reasonable Adjustments:

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