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# Cyber Security Analyst

- **Company:** Netcompany Group
- **Location:** Leeds, UK
- **Experience:** Experienced
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Amazon Web Services, Cloud Computing Security, Cyber Security, Python (Programming Language), Windows PowerShell, Security Information and Event Management, Scripting, Terraform
- **Published:** August 30, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.collegerecruiter.com/job/2815459336-cyber-security-analyst

## About the Role

* 2-4 years in a SOC, monitoring, or security analyst role
 * Hands-on SIEM experience and demonstrable alert triage capability
 * Working knowledge of AWS security services
 * Comfortable with ambiguity (the SOC is being built around them)
 * Strong communication skills and ability to collaborate with technical teams
 * Degree in a relevant technical field or equivalent professional experience
 * At least one entry/mid-level certification (Security+, CySA+, BTL1, or SC-200)
 * SC-cleared or genuinely cleared-eligible, * Detection authoring experience (writing rules, not just consuming them)
 * Scripting ability (Terraform, Python or PowerShell)
 * Prior cleared environment experience
 * Familiarity with AWS-native security tooling (GuardDuty, Security Hub, CloudTrail, Detective)
 * Additional certifications (GCIA, AWS Certified Security Specialty, vendor-specific SIEM certs)

## Description

Serves as the operational backbone of the SOC, responsible for day-to-day monitoring, triage, investigation, and initial incident response activities. Supports senior team members by handling frontline operations and providing valuable operational insights., * Monitor, triage, and investigate security alerts across protective monitoring platforms

 * Review security event data, identify incidents, and escalation appropriately
 * Support incident response activities including containment, eradication, and recovery
 * Execute runbooks and contribute to their improvement
 * Feed detection tuning recommendations back to the senior
 * Coordinate with infrastructure and application teams during incidents under the senior's direction
 * Contribute to dashboard monitoring and retrospective analysis
 * Help shape the SOC's runbooks, processes, and operational standards as they are developed


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