SOC Analyst / Remote /12 month contract / £400-£500 per day inside IR35
Leading Client in the market are seeking a SOC Analyst to join their team
Role: SOC Analyst
Location: Fully Remote
Duration: 12 month contract
Rate: £400-£500 per day
As a SOC Analyst your responsibilities will entail:
- Review security alerts and evaluate urgency and relevancy
- Perform initial security investigation and triage
- Follow runbook for incident escalation
- Request or run vulnerability scan and review the assessment report.
- Manages and configures security monitoring tools.
- Ability to backfill other security roles as required.
- Experience in an Information Technology or Information Security Department, with incident response experience in an enterprise setting.
- Windows and Linux experience.
- Working experience with SIEM solutions (QRadar, Splunk, Elastic Security).
- Previous work experience with the various phases of security incident response.
- In-depth understanding of the types of events of interest in electronic logs.
- Deep understanding of cyber defense principles, common attack vectors, incident response methodologies, log analysis and attacker techniques.
- Strong familiarity with best practices related to security incident response activities and protocols, including litigation holds, chain of custody, and playbooks.
- Awareness of incident response requirements of PCI, HIPAA and other applicable laws, regulations and guidelines.
Desired Certifications
- CISSP
- GCTI (GIAC Cyber Threat Intelligence)
- GSEC (GIAC Security Essentials)
- CEH (Certified Ethical Hacker)
- SANS Security SEC401
- Security+
If this role seems like the right fit for you then please send through your upto date CV
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