New Job Opening: Senior Security Operations Analyst in Manchester

Job Description

An established, award-winning UK fintech is growing its Information Security team and is looking for a Senior Security Operations Analyst.

Senior Security Operations Analyst (SOC / SIEM / Threat Hunting)
£55,000 - £65,000 + Bonus + excellent benefits

Manchester or Leeds (Hybrid)

About the role

You’ll protect key business assets by monitoring, detecting, analysing and responding to security incidents, owning threat detection and incident response at real scale.

What you’ll be doing

• SIEM ownership: Oversee the day-to-day running of the SIEM, working closely with Infrastructure, Networks, DevOps and an outsourced SOC.


• Detection rules: Define and fine-tune SIEM rules, and investigate alerts and incidents through to completion.


• Incident response: Gather and analyse data, then contain and respond to cyber security incidents as part of a dynamic monitoring and response capability.


• Threat intelligence and hunting: Gather threat intelligence from multiple sources, coordinate threat hunting, spot trends and attacks, and plan mitigation and remediation.


• Escalation and remediation: Raise problems, escalate through the right channels and track them through to resolution.


• EDR: Manage Endpoint Detection and Response day to day.


• Policy and control design: Help design, manage and document security policies, standards and processes, and design effective test methods for logical security controls.


• Staying current: Keep up with the latest threats, best practice and technology developments.

What you’ll bring

• Hands-on SIEM experience with Chronicle / Google SecOps, Splunk or Microsoft Sentinel, and a good working knowledge of event log data.


• Solid understanding of firewalls, IDS/IPS and Windows Security Event Logs.


• Knowledge of cloud infrastructure fundamentals alongside traditional technologies.


• Ability to quickly understand existing infrastructure, network security principles, data flows and security architectures.


• A proactive approach to identifying control weaknesses and vulnerabilities.


• Strong written and verbal communication, able to explain complex technical risk in plain business terms.


• A sense of ownership, with the confidence to spot what needs doing while working well in a team.

Apply now to arrange a confidential conversation about the role and client in more detail.