This contract with our defence client is for a SOC Engineer for 4 months located in Corsham Onsite 5 days per week. The pay rate to candidate is Umb £700 a day, PAYE £521.01. Your main responsibilities will be: • Support the transition of a SOC to support new systems and services by providing expert security guidance and application of best practices. • Provide strategic advice to SOC management regarding incident response, monitoring, logging and analysis of all relevant systems and processes. • Shape the development, communication and continuous improvement of the cyber monitoring detection, triage, and incident response plan. • Identification of opportunities for cyber investment within the SOC to meet the SOC’s remit and requirement. • Defining and continuous development of a use case-driven logging, monitoring and response capability to ensure responsiveness and resilience to cyber security threats. • Defining the cyber security operations strategy in coordination with senior business and stakeholders.
Requirements
You’ll have relevant experience in: • Threat monitoring and intelligence gathering and assessment; processes to scan for vulnerabilities and implementing fixes and mitigations; Incident response management. • Experience in the management of Security Event Monitoring and operational response by means of monitoring and correlation tooling, antivirus, network, and host IDS/IPS monitoring and logging. • Experience as a Tier 3 SOC Engineer undertaking the activities of Threat Hunting and Detections Engineering • A sole UK National.