Security Operations Engineer
Posted 3 days 4 hours ago by Lawrence Harvey
£40,000 - £50,000 Annual
Permanent
Not Specified
Other
England, United Kingdom
Job Description
We are looking to support a software development organisation and looking for an IT Security Engineer due to the expansion of their capability due to an increase in project work and new acquisition.
This is a really exciting opportunity for either an analyst or Jr SOC Engineer to pivot themselves in a role where you have a platform to gain exposure to a whole range of tools and get stuck into some interesting work in multiple domains.
Responsibilities
- Monitor cyber defence security tooling - SIEM, IDS/IPS, EDR, VM, etc
- Working with a Secure Access Service Edge service to help deploy the endpoint agents and establish operating procedures and documentation for how this will effect the end user
- Monitor and respond to 'phishing' emails and 'farming' activity and block/remove them from within the organisation and update the filters
Requirements
- Previous experience working in a SOC environment or exposure to various security monitoring technologies (SIEM, Intrusion Detection/Prevention, Endpoint Detection, etc)
- Genuine interest in cyber security and evidence to back that up - own home lab set up, PCAP Analysis experience, TryHackMe, etc
- Previous experience using tools within the Microsoft Stack (Azure, Sentinel, Defender).
- Knowledge of data protection mechanisms, including encryption, tokenization, masking, DLP and key management.
Lawrence Harvey is acting as an Employment Business in regards to this position.