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# Senior Cyber Security Analyst

- **Company:** Yesterday By Context Recruitment Limited
- **Location:** London, UK
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** £80,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Cyber Security, Identity and Access Management, Microsoft Servers, Azure Active Directory, Security Information and Event Management, Software Vulnerability Management, Mitre Att&ck, 3-tier Architectures, Security Orchestration, Automation & Response
- **Published:** October 8, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.reed.co.uk/jobs/senior-cyber-security-analyst/57432903

## About the Role

* Strong previous experience working within a SOC environment, ideally at Tier 2 or Tier 3 level
 * Experience handling security incidents independently and making technical decisions during investigations
 * Strong end-to-end Vulnerability Management experience, covering discovery, analysis and remediation
 * Strong technical knowledge of Microsoft Entra, including security monitoring, incident response, IAM and hardening
 * Experience securing both cloud and on-premise environments
 * Strong understanding of attacker tactics, techniques and procedures
 * Experience working with technologies such as Defender XDR, SIEM, EDR, Vulnerability Management and SOAR platforms
 * Familiarity with security and vulnerability frameworks (e.g. MITRE ATT&CK, CVSS, CISA KEV and NIST)
 * Ability to query and analyse structured security and log data
 * A broader technical IT background, ideally across areas such as infrastructure, systems administration, networking or IT support

## Description

Extremely exciting enterprise-scale, global entertainment organisation seeking an experienced, Senior Security Analyst to join a growing security team, taking a key role across vulnerability and exposure management, security monitoring, incident response and risk. You'll be working with closely with a small, highly dedicated, highly capable team.

This is a broad, hands-on position and would suit someone who has built strong technical experience within a SOC, but who does not want to be limited to one narrow area of Security Operations.

You'll work across a predominantly Microsoft environment, helping to detect and respond to security threats, manage vulnerabilities end to end, improve security tooling and strengthen the organisation's overall security posture., * Investigate and respond to security alerts and incidents at Tier 2/3 level, using your own technical judgement rather than simply following predefined playbooks

 * Own and continuously improve the Vulnerability Management lifecycle, covering discovery, analysis, prioritisation, remediation and tracking
 * Drive wider Exposure Management activity across cloud, on-premise and third-party environments
 * Work closely with technical teams and system owners to ensure vulnerabilities are understood and remediated in line with business risk
 * Monitor and respond to threats across Microsoft Entra and M365, including identity-related incidents and account compromise
 * Support security hardening, IAM, architecture and deployment activity across the Microsoft environment
 * Investigate security events using platforms including Microsoft Defender XDR and EDR tooling
 * Analyse structured security and log data to identify malicious or suspicious activity.
 * Support the management of major Cyber Security incidents and coordinate response activity with relevant stakeholders
 * Use threat intelligence to identify emerging risks and drive proactive security activity.
 * Support Security Risk Management activities, including third-party security assessments.
 * Help improve detection capability, including opportunities around MITRE ATT&CK-aligned detection engineering
 * Identify opportunities to automate repetitive SOC processes using SOAR, orchestration and AI-assisted tooling