SPG Resourcing
leeds
Full Time
Permanent
Exciting opportunity to join this IT Solutions and transformation organisation. Looking to hire an experienced Lead Cyber Security Engineer. You will be responsible for handing security incidents received/escalated from the junior analysts in the team. You will aid in triaging threat intelligence from multiple sources and add contextual information to the security incident, perform additional analysis and based on the business impact will recommend the response actions and escalation path. You will also have the opportunity to support the initial implementation of new security related Microsoft technologies, including Microsoft Sentinel, MDE, MDI and Defender for Cloud.
The Responsibilities
• Oversee completion of day-to-day checklist(s), including log review, management report scheduling & running, alert analysis, and escalation follow up
• Remain current on cyber security trends and intelligence (open source and commercial) in order to guide the security analysis & identification capabilities of the CSOC team
• Provide oversight, guidance and mentoring to L2 & L3 analysts, and fulfil SOC Manager responsibilities in the absence of the SOC Manager
• Manage a number of analysts as part of a virtual team of L1 and L2 analysts, including objectives setting, performance management / reviews, training & development, and BAU activities including shift cover etc.
• Perform advanced event and incident analysis, including baseline establishment and trend analysis.
• Support on-call arrangements as part of a Rota, to support L1 Analysts working out of hours
• Support Major Incident Response activity, from a Protective Monitoring perspective, including supporting teams in identification, containment, and remediation of security related threat.
• Provide timely advice and guidance on the response action plans for events and incidents based on incident type and severity.
• Identify, create and implement improvements to procedures and processes, with the SOC Manager's approval.
• Identify opportunities for SOC and client SIEM platform configuration improvements, use case development, monitoring rule creation, tuning & optimisation
• Assist in architectural design to facilitate the onboarding of new information systems, including the assessment, parsing, onboarding of log sources, and use case and rule development.
Required skills
SPG Resourcing
leeds
Full Time
Permanent