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# SOC Analyst

- **Company:** Anson McCade
- **Location:** London, UK
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** £70,000.0 - £84,900.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Data Analysis, Microsoft Antivirus, Cyber Security, Intrusion Detection and Prevention, Security Information and Event Management, AI Infrastructure, Falcon Platform, Microsoft Sentinel, Splunk
- **Published:** August 24, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.totaljobs.com/job/soc-analyst/anson-mccade-job107891573

## About the Role

We're particularly interested in candidates with:

 * 5-10 years' experience across SOC, Incident Response or Threat Analysis
 * Strong experience with SIEM and EDR technologies
 * Hands-on experience investigating and responding to security incidents
 * Knowledge of threat detection, containment and remediation
 * Experience acting as a technical escalation point or mentoring junior analysts
 * Strong analytical and investigative skills

Experience with Splunk, Microsoft Sentinel, Microsoft Defender, CrowdStrike or similar would be beneficial.

Relevant certifications such as GCIH, GCIA, CySA+, SC-200 or Splunk certifications are desirable but not essential.

## Description

As a SOC Shift Lead, you'll be the senior technical escalation point on your shift, taking ownership of complex and high-severity security incidents.

You'll investigate incidents, identify attack vectors and impact, lead containment and remediation, and provide technical guidance to L1 analysts.

You'll be responsible for:

 * Leading investigations into medium and high-severity security incidents
 * Analysing and correlating data across SIEM, EDR and other security sources
 * Leading containment, eradication and recovery activities
 * Conducting root-cause analysis and producing incident reports
 * Supporting detection rule and threshold tuning
 * Identifying gaps in detection coverage and response processes
 * Mentoring and supporting SOC Analysts
 * Acting as the senior escalation point during your shift
 * Supporting SOC exercises and incident response simulations, This isn't simply a SOC monitoring role. You'll be leading incident investigations, making decisions during high-severity events and providing technical leadership across your shift.

You'll also be working within a highly secure, next-generation AI infrastructure environment, giving you exposure to some of the latest technology and security challenges.

Please note: This is a 24/7 shift-based position with a shift premium. The role is subject to BPSS and the required level of security clearance, including 10 years' continuous UK address history.


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