Detection & Threat Hunt Analyst - Cheltenham

Role: Detection & Threat Hunt Analyst

Location: Cheltenham

Position: Specialist or Associate Manager

Please Note: Any offer of employment is subject to satisfactory BPSS and SC security clearance which requires 5 years continuous UK address history (typically including no periods of 30 consecutive days or more spent outside of the UK) and declaration of being a British passport holder with no dual nationalism at the point of application.

As a team, in this role, you will serve as a senior technical point of escalation (T3), mentor junior analysts, drive service improvements, and ensure the consistent delivery of high-quality threat detection and response services to our clients. You will also act as a technical SME, directly engaging with clients, delivering reporting and supporting internal teams to uphold and enhance our security posture.

Key Responsibilities:

• Tier 3 Support: Act as the point of technical escalation where required for complex security incidents, investigations, and operational issues within the SOC.
• Continuous Service Improvement: Identify and implement enhancements to SOC tools, workflows, and playbooks to increase detection accuracy, reduce response time, and improve analyst efficiency.
• Mentoring & Training: Lead the development and continuous training of Tier 1 and Tier 2 analysts, enhancing their technical capabilities and incident response skills.
• Quality Assurance (QA) Review: Conduct regular QA assessments on case handling, documentation, and resolution quality to ensure consistency and compliance with SOC standards.
• Reporting: Create and deliver actionable and client-tailored reporting, including incident summaries, threat trends, and operational performance metrics.
• Client Engagement: Act as a trusted technical advisor for clients, providing subject matter expertise, regular updates, and contributing to security strategy discussions.
• Tuning Requests Validation: Review and validate security detection tuning requests to ensure accuracy and effectiveness while minimising false positives and coverage gaps.
• Threat Hunting / Use Case (TH/UC) Team Support: Collaborate with the TH/UC team to support their development of new detection use cases, validate threat hypotheses, and integrate threat intelligence into operations.
• Out-of-Hours On-Call Support: Participate in the on-call rotation, providing expert-level support during security incidents outside of normal hours.

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Locations: Cheltenham

Closing date: Closing date for applications 25/02/26.

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