SOC Engineer - Cyber
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Job description
The evolving security landscape brings new challenges and opportunities, making strong customer support essential to SCC Cyber's success as an MSSP.
The SOC Engineer role provides the chance to work closely with the business across a wide range of managed security services, including MDR and XDR. The position focuses on delivering technical expertise to maintain and enhance operational security capabilities-monitoring the IT environment, managing security tools, and handling incidents.
As part of the core security team, the role also contributes to continual service improvement within the SOC, ensuring SCC customers receive efficient, compliant, and best-in-class security services., * Be the technical engineering subject matter expert (SME) for the SOC team focussed across SIEM, Vulnerability Scanning, EDR / MDR and other Security Technologies
- Perform business as usual and Project/Onboarding support for the security technologies, examples, log source health offence triage, tuning, vulnerability scanning for investigation into findings and remediation and general industry knowledge to support the security deliverables across other service
- Ensure appropriate governance and appropriate checking of access to our technology solutions is in place
- Provide technical guidance and assurance to colleagues in the SOC, ensuring remediation, response and general advice is accurate and actionable
- Stay abreast of emerging security threats, vulnerabilities, and controls, providing technical guidance and advice on threat response plans
- Provide technical consultancy support in the development of the security technologies, processes and procedures, including the development of 'Playbooks' to ensure best practice is implemented when possible
- Ensure defined technical compliance functional requirements for each on boarding project and ensure that they are fulfilled prior to going into service
- Understand the implications of standards and regulations such as GDPR, ISO27001, NCSC Cloud Security Principles, NIS2, to inform decision making Responsible for documentation of implementations, via technical documentation and run books
Requirements
Do you have experience in Windows?, * Solid and demonstrable comprehension of Cyber Security including malware, emerging threats, attacks, vulnerability management and standard accreditation frameworks
- Possess excellent communication, presentational, critical thinking problem solving, analytical and prioritisation skills.
- Drive policy, process and procedure, maintenance, and improvement
- Own workload, ensuring work is delivered on time, and exceeds management's expectations
- Have a strong emphasis on quality, accuracy and meeting deadlines
- Be a self-starter and proactive in driving forward security for the benefit of the business
- Possess strong briefing and technical skills to enable you to present at all levels and across the business and its customers
- To have already achieved SC Clearance or undergo the process for SC Clearance. Strong familiarity with Linux and Windows operating systems and cloud provider ecosystem
Benefits & conditions
Salary Package: 35k - 40k plus large company benefits, a broad flexible benefits scheme, and 2 paid-for volunteering days a year Hours: 9.00 am - 5.30 pm Monday - Friday Interview Process: 2-stage process
Why SCC?
- An inclusive workplace
- Excellent package: solid basic and company benefits
- Hybrid working & core hours in line with role requirements
- Career development and life-long learning opportunities
- Opportunity to join Europe's largest privately-owned IT Company
