Senior SOC Analyst
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Job description
You'll be one of the senior operators in a SOC that's growing, evolving, and occasionally making things up as it goes along (in a good way). That means:
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Taking the lead on live incidents while keeping clients calm enough not to phone their Board.
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Running investigations end-to-end and explaining them to people who don't speak KQL but pretend they do.
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Being the point of contact for all things SOC for your clients including reports, comms, escalations, the lot.
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Building and tuning detection content across tools like Sentinel, Datadog, and Elastic. (If you get a kick out of reducing false positives, this is your Disneyland.)
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Designing new queries, automations, and Logic Apps that make analysts' lives easier and MTTR shorter.
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Onboarding new data sources, validating telemetry, mapping visibility to MITRE, and closing gaps that keep you awake at night.
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Owning documentation that people actually read, because you've made it good enough that they don't dread opening it.
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Helping shape the SOC roadmap so the team evolves on purpose - not just by accident.
What You Won't Be Doing
- Sitting in endless layers of approval chains.
- Asking permission to improve things.
- Being babysat.
- Working fully remote - sorry, but great teams actually work better when they see each other occasionally.
Requirements
- A UK university degree in something relevant (computer science, infosec, etc.).
- Fluent business-level English - because clients need clarity, not jargon.
- Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to stay calm when everyone else is dramatically whispering "major incident".
- Experience writing and tuning detections, building automations, and onboarding logs without breaking everything.
- The confidence to lead investigations, combined with the humility to know when you've missed something.
- The ability to mentor Junior Analysts without turning it into a TED Talk.
- Commercial awareness - not the soul-destroying kind, just enough to spot when a client needs more help than they're asking for.