SOC Engineer

This contract with our defence client is for a SOC Engineer for 4 months located in Corsham Onsite 5 days per week. The pay rate to candidate is Umb £700 a day, PAYE £521.01.  

Your main responsibilities will be:  

• Support the transition of a SOC to support new systems and services by providing expert security guidance and application of best practices.  

• Provide strategic advice to SOC management regarding incident response, monitoring, logging and analysis of all relevant systems and processes.  

• Shape the development, communication and continuous improvement of the cyber monitoring detection, triage, and incident response plan.  

• Identification of opportunities for cyber investment within the SOC to meet the SOC’s remit and requirement.  

• Defining and continuous development of a use case-driven logging, monitoring and response capability to ensure responsiveness and resilience to cyber security threats.  

• Defining the cyber security operations strategy in coordination with senior business and stakeholders.

You’ll have relevant experience in:  

• Threat monitoring and intelligence gathering and assessment; processes to scan for vulnerabilities and implementing fixes and mitigations; Incident response management.  

• Experience in the management of Security Event Monitoring and operational response by means of monitoring and correlation tooling, antivirus, network, and host IDS/IPS monitoring and logging.  

• Experience as a Tier 3 SOC Engineer undertaking the activities of Threat Hunting and Detections Engineering  

• A sole UK National.