Senior Security Operations Analyst

Senior Security Operations Analyst

DGH Recruitment are currently recruiting on behalf of a leading client in the Professional Services industry who require a Senior Security Operations Analyst to join the firm in Leeds.

You will be responsible for the continuous monitoring and analysis of data, alerts and reports to ensure timely and proactive escalation of potential events/items of interest.

Responsibilities:

• Monitor, investigate, and triage security alerts, anomalies, indicators of compromise, and policy violations correlating network, cloud, endpoint, and log-based activity to identify attacks, unauthorised use, and suspicious activity.
• Participate in continuous threat hunting activities, leveraging threat intelligence, and proactive analysis to identify suspicious activity, emerging threats, and attack trends.
• Work with Detection and Automation team to support development of detection alerts, security automation and recommendations for tuning of rules to reduce false positives.
• Provide Tier 1 triage of secure email gateway alerts and phishing incidents, escalating and remediating threats in accordance with established procedures.
• Provide Tier 2 operational support for web proxy and secure web gateway technologies, including troubleshooting, root cause analysis, and implementation of corrective actions to maintain service reliability and security.

Required Skills:

• 5+ years in Security Operations / SOC or Incident Response, including in a 24×7 or global environment.
• Proven experience across incident response, alert triage, threat hunting, data loss prevention, and operational risk analysis.
• Demonstrable experience with at least one major SIEM and EDR platform, additional hands on KQL / SPL, PowerShell / Python experience preferred.
• Demonstrable experience with Security Orchestration and Automation.
• Certifications such as SC-200, AZ-500, GCIA / GCIH / GCDA or CISSP / CISM preferred.

Senior Security Operations Analyst