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My London based client are looking for a SOC Analyst to join their team on an initial 6-month contract.The organisation are looking for a Security Analyst who will be integral to managing the monitoring and alerting from their vulnerability management system, Security Operations Centre, and their cloud platform.The analyst will also work closely with other members of the security and engineering teams to assist with infrastructure security, policies, and toolsets to ensure that their environment remains secure.The successful SOC Analyst must have strong experience with Qualys/Tenable, any experience of extending coverage within an organisation will be highly beneficial.The successful candidate will also have strong practical experience of MS Defender and its capabilities.They must have good general understanding of frameworks such as NIST, ISO27001, Mitre ATT&CK and any experience of Service Now will be beneficial.Skills & Responsibilities:
- Demonstrable experience of Qualys or Tenable - experience of deploying to cloud / local environments is desirable.
- Threat and Vulnerability Analysis.
- Demonstrable experience of MS Defender - experience of extending capabilities is desirable.
- Good knowledge of CIS Standards.
- Good understanding of frameworks such as NIST, ISO27001, Mitre ATT&CK.
- Demonstrable experience managing Security Operation Centre incident and service response dashboards.
- Demonstrable experience of working with engineering teams to ensure timely patch management.
- Experience of assisting with and conducting / coordinating management and remediation of penetration tests / audit reports.
- Experience of administrating web monitoring and early warning threat portals.
- Demonstrable experience of managing medium and low priority notifications from SOC in relation to organisation users' activities.
- Experience of Reporting to the security management team regarding residual risks and security exposures, including misuse of information assets and potential non-compliance.
- Excellent written and oral communication skills.
- Experience of Service now - beneficial.
- Basic Networking Skills.
- Qualifications - Vulnerability vendor certificates (Qualys/Tenable), Azure fundamentals / Azure Security Engineer associate - Desirable but not mandatory.
If this role is of interest then please send your CV to the address provided and I will contact you at my earliest possible convenience.
