Level 3 SOC Analyst

Project overview

Contract | Up to £675 per day | Inside IR35 | London - 3 days onsite

Level 3 SOC Analyst

Who you'll be working with

You'll join a Cyber Security Incident Response team within a major financial services organisation, helping investigate and respond to cyber threats.

What you'll be doing

What we need

What's in it for you?

• Investigating and responding to complex security incidents, including malware, phishing, account compromise and data loss.
• Analysing SIEM and EDR/XDR alerts to identify threats and assess risk.
• Coordinating incident containment, eradication and recovery with technical teams.
• Conducting digital forensic investigations across endpoints, networks, identity and cloud environments.
• Carrying out threat hunting and improving detection rules, monitoring and response playbooks.
• Producing incident reports, identifying root causes and implementing lessons learned.
• Hands-on experience in a SOC, cyber incident response or security investigations role.
• Strong SIEM and EDR/XDR experience.
• Knowledge of Windows/Linux forensics, security logs and network traffic analysis.
• Understanding of MITRE ATT&CK, threat hunting and incident response processes.
• Experience across enterprise networks, identity, endpoint security and cloud environments.
• Financial services experience and knowledge of Microsoft Sentinel, Defender XDR, KQL or forensic tools would be advantageous.
• Up to £675 per day, Inside IR35.
• London-based contract, with 3 days onsite per week.
• Opportunity to work on complex cyber investigations and incident response.

Project details

• Start: ASAP
• Duration: 6 months
• Location: London, UK, GB