Senior Security Analyst

Senior Security Analyst | £40k-£50k total compensation | MSP

Our client is looking for a Senior Security Operations Centre (SOC) Analyst to join a modern, continuously evolving SOC environment. You’ll work hands-on with real-world threats, monitoring and investigating security events across multiple customer environments while developing your skills alongside experienced analysts.

This person will lead one of the shift teams while acting as the point of technical escalation.

What you’ll be doing

Detect & Investigate

• Monitor and triage alerts across SIEM, EDR/XDR, email and web security platforms
• Investigate suspicious activity and determine impact and severity
• Build clear timelines and maintain high-quality investigation notes
• Escalate complex cases with clear technical context
• Review vulnerability outputs and provide basic prioritisation insight

Hunt & Improve

• Participate in threat hunting activities
• Contribute ideas to improve detections, dashboards and runbooks
• Support testing of new detection logic and use cases

Collaborate & Communicate

• Provide clear written updates to customers and internal stakeholders
• Take part in shift handovers to ensure continuity
• Work closely with senior analysts to grow technical depth

What we’re looking for

• 2+ years of experience in a SOC, or
• 3+ years in infrastructure or networking with strong security exposure
• Experience triaging and investigating security alerts
• Understanding of attacker behaviour, TTPs and common attack chains
• Ability to identify indicators of compromise across endpoints, networks and logs
• Hands-on experience with at least one SIEM, EDR or XDR platform
• Familiarity with ticketing systems (e.g. ServiceNow, JIRA, Salesforce)
• Knowledge of Windows, macOS and Linux environments
• Understanding of DNS, HTTP, SMB and LDAP
• Awareness of MITRE ATT&CK and distinguishing legitimate vs suspicious activity

Why join?

• A technical, analyst-first SOC that values quality investigations
• Structured training, cyber ranges and real incident exposure
• Clear career paths into Threat Intelligence, SOC Engineering, Incident Response and senior SOC roles
• Collaborative, agile team culture that values curiosity and continuous improvement
• Supportive environment with regular knowledge sharing and team events