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Head of SOC Operations

Employer
ANSON MCCADE
Location
West Yorkshire, Yorkshire, Leeds, LS10 1AB
Salary
£700 - £800 per day + Extended benefits package
Closing date
29 Mar 2023

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Sector
Technology
Responsibilities
Analyst
Position/Level
Professional / Specialist
Contract Type
Permanent
Language
English
Head of SOC Operations - Contract

Up to £750 Inside IR35

Leeds - 9 - 5 - 5 Days a Week

An industry leading cybersecurity practice have been contracted to undertake the day to day operation of (and incremental improvemnt of) a dedicated Security Operations Centre (SOC) to support the National Security function of a client. The networks protected are predominantly hosted in Azure and AWS cloud platforms, with many hundred systems within these environments that must be protected. The customer is committed to development of this improved SOC to be a benchmark of best practice and excellence in reflection of the significant threat that the protected systems are subject to.

The Head of SOC Operations will lead the analysts in detecting and investigating security incidents on a 24/7 basis. They are responsible for ensuring that the SOC analysts detect and investigate potential Security and Service Incidents occurring within the monitored networks utilising the SOC's Security Incident and Event Management (SIEM) toolsets.

The role will require a high level of Governmental Secuirty clearance therefore, a sole British Passport Holder is required.

Position is expected to work from company offices on a full time basis.

Responsibilities of a Head of SOC Operations;
  • Manage delivery of the SOC operational capability in accordance with service levels, internal and external KPI, customer expectations and, time, cost and quality objectives.
  • Perform all strategic planning and budgeting activities for the Operations Team in accordance with internal planning and budgeting cycles.
  • Track the performance of the SOC operational capability and the Operations Team against service levels, KPI and other internal and external metrics.
  • Ensure the Operations Team have sufficient financial, people and technical resources to meet service levels, KPI and team objectives (short, medium and long term).
  • Monitor compliance of all Operations Team activities to customer and SOC policies, standards, processes and procedures (including security and safety procedures).
  • When required, monitor, triage, analyse and investigate alerts, log data and network traffic using the Protective Monitoring platform and Internet resources to identify cyber-attacks / security incidents.
  • Act as the pint of escalation and liaison with the wider SOC team and the client.
  • Assist with remediation activities and conduct permitted remediation (or support customer stakeholders) to inhibit cyber-attacks, clean up IT systems and secure networks against repeat attacks.
  • Produce security incident review reports to present information about the security incident and provide security improvement recommendations based on the security incident review.
  • Work with other teams within to improve services on the basis of customer needs.
  • Ensure continual improvement to the service and review use cases and propose changes and enhancements in line with the changing threat.

Technical Capabilities of a Head of SOC Operations;
  • Basic Python and/or scripting skills, Windows, OS X, and Linux
  • Experienced SOC Analyst
  • Working with a range of security tooling/technology
  • Strong understanding of security architecture, in particular networking
  • Detailed understanding of threat intelligence and threat actors, TTPs and operationalising threat intelligence.
  • Management of small teams
  • Experience in investigating complex network intrusions (by state-sponsored groups or targeted ransomware attacks).
  • Understand TCP/IP component layers to identify normal and abnormal traffic
  • Understanding of AWS &/or Azure cloud services
  • Experience of Splunk (with ES) &/or Sentinel
  • Experience developing SIEM/SOAR content desirable

Head of SOC Operations - Contract

Up to £750 Inside IR35

Leeds - 9 - 5 - 5 Days a Week

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