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# Senior SOC & Incident Response Engineer

- **Company:** DGH Recruitment
- **Location:** London, UK
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** £40,000.0 - £50,000.0
- **Contract:** Temporary contract
- **Skills:** Microsoft Azure, Cloud Computing Security, Cyber Security, Domain Name System Security Extensions, Monitoring of Systems, Intrusion Detection Systems, Log Analysis, Security Information and Event Management, Google Cloud, Kubernetes, Security Orchestration, Automation & Response
- **Published:** September 10, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.collegerecruiter.com/job/2840580714-senior-soc--incident-response-engineer

## About the Role

* 8+ years of hands-on experience in information security related responsibilities with a strong focus on SOC engineering, incident response, and thread detection/hunting.
 * In-depth knowledge of IR/SOC monitoring, alerting and investigation tools platforms, process, and architecture.
 * Experience working with cloud security technologies (Azure DevOps, Kubernetes, GCP, etc) including cloud log analysis, monitoring, detection, and incident response.
 * Experience with SOC use of SIEM, SOAR, IDS/IPS, DLP, and Endpoint security.
 * Experience with third-party security monitoring solutions and providers.

## Description

This candidate will develop and integrate an Incident Response (IR) / SOC security infrastructure to monitor the Firm's on prem and cloud environments., * Drive and improve continuous monitoring and incident response, serving as a senior resource in our SOC and Incident Response processes.

 * Configure and integrate platforms, tools, service providers, and solutions into our IR/SOC systems, make recommendations as needed.
 * Ensure integration of input from the Firm's deployed suite of security tools to SOC systems (e.g. SIEM/SOAR), including, but not limited to, IDS/IPS, End Point Protection, MDR/XDR, PAM, MFA, DNS Security, and cloud security posture management.
 * Ensure the Firms Incident Response and security monitoring systems adhere to security best practices and baselines to ensure a secure configuration of platforms and resources.


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