Lead Technical Engineer (SOC)

Lead Technical Engineer (SOC) in Surrey | Stott & May Professional Search Limited My career My jobs Q Quentin Search These jobs were popular with other job seekers SOC Architect - SC Cleared Stott & May Professional Search Limited Surrey £700 - £710 per day 4 days ago 123321 - Security Infrastructure Engineer (SOC) Stott & May Professional Search Limited Surrey £600 - £670 per day 4 days ago Systems Installation Stress Engineer Morson Edge Bristol, Avon £47.50 - 47.50 per hour 4 days ago Systems Integration Architect Defence Reading (RG1), RG1 £75 - £85 per hour 1 week ago Security Infrastructure Engineer Anson Mccade Frimley, Camberley (GU16) Up to £665 per day 4 days ago Application Migration Engineer Sanderson Government and Defence City of London (EC1) Up to £520 per day + Inside IR35 5 days ago Virtual Engineering Ops FBI &TMT London £600 - £650 per day 5 days ago DevSecOps & Governance Architect Develop London 6 days ago Senior Security Researcher - (AI & Detection Engineering) Salt London £70000.00 - £90000.00 per annum + + bonus + benefit 5 days ago Security Engineer (Site Reliability Engineering) - SC Cleared Sanderson Government and Defence London £545 - £590 per day + Inside IR35 6 days ago Lead Technical Engineer (SOC) Stott & May Professional Search Limited Surrey Freelance / Project collaboration; On-site Published: 4 days ago £750 - £800 per day Apply Save Lead Technical Engineer (SOC) Stott & May Professional Search Limited Apply Poor Fit Your CV is missing most of what's needed for this role. 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This is a senior, client-facing role for someone with 5-8 years of relevant experience and proven SOC deployment experience for previous clients. You will lead high- and low-level design activities, work with small technical teams, and support the delivery of secure, scalable, and performant SOC solutions. Key responsibilities Lead high-level, low-level, and deployment-level designs for SOC solutions, including component interfaces. Support the design, configuration, and deployment of security tools. Specify infrastructure requirements and support cloud, on-premises VM, and container-based hosting. Design and configure network security devices, routers, switches, VLANs, DNS, and identity management. Lead SIEM onboarding activities, ensuring solutions support high data ingest rates. Develop test procedures covering functional and non-functional requirements. Maintain requirements and user stories, ensuring traceability to solution components. Oversee deployment activities, including entry criteria, completion of planned work, and rollback plans. Review and approve design, deployment, configuration, and administration documentation. Act as a generalist technical SME across cyber monitoring technologies and security tools. Key skills & experience 5-8 years of relevant experience in technical engineering, SOC deployment, or security infrastructure. Proven experience designing, building, and deploying SOC solutions for previous clients. Experience with at least two of SIEM, SOAR, EDR, Vulnerability Management, or Threat Intelligence. Strong experience deploying and configuring applications in cloud and/or on-premises environments, particularly for high data ingest rates. Proven experience leading or conducting SIEM onboarding. Strong knowledge of on-premises architecture, networking, secure network design, and infrastructure services. Understanding of OSI/TCP/IP, IP addressing, subnetting, routing, LAN/WAN, ACLs, and VLANs. Experience with compute, storage, OS administration, secure system hardening, endpoint security, and Active Directory/LDAP. Knowledge of cyber threats, risk assessment, vulnerability management, and security best practices. Good understanding of enterprise ICT services, Security Operations processes, and threat intelligence, threat actors, and TTPs. Current UK SC clearance. 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