Senior Security Operations Analyst
Salary - £54,000 - £65,000 + bonus
Location - Manchester or Leeds - Hybrid
We're working with a well-established, award-winning UK fintech. They're looking for a Senior Security Operations Analyst to sit at the heart of their Information Security function, owning threat detection and incident response at real scale.
The opportunity
- SIEM - write and tune detection rules, investigate alerts end-to-end, and collaborate with Infrastructure, Networks, DevOps and an outsourced SOC.
- Threat intelligence & hunting - monitor intelligence from multiple sources, identify trends and emerging threats, and lead coordinated hunting activity.
- Incident response- analyse, contain, and remediate security incidents, communicating clearly across teams and escalating where needed.
- EDR- day-to-day interaction with the Endpoint Detection and Response tooling across the estate.
- Policy & control design- contribute to security policy, standards, and documentation, and design and test logical security controls.
Essential skills and experience
- Hands-on SIEM experience - Chronicle, Splunk, or Sentinel
- Strong understanding of firewalls, IDS/IPS and Windows Security Event Logs
- Knowledge of cloud and traditional infrastructure security principles
- Ability to proactively identify control weaknesses and vulnerabilities
- Clear communicator - able to translate technical risk into plain business language
