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SOC Analysts

Job Description

Location: Warrington & Remote
Job Type: Contract
Clearance: Beneficial

CND are being engaged to develop a new cloud monitoring function for a government client.  Currently, their SOC provision covers elements of IT and OT however with a growing Cloud appetite they are looking to add a further provision of cloud native SOC monitoring to protect their sensitive information hosted in Microsoft Azure.  As such, they are looking for experienced SOC analysts to come on board and build upon their brownfield environment to deliver a best-in-class SOC function. 

The engagement is initially 12 months. Working pattern is two days per week onsite and the rest can be delivered remotely using secure IT.

Job Details

Key Responsibilities

  • Deliver a Cloud monitoring capability and augmentation for the client.
  • Work to develop the service from the ‘as is’ to the ‘to be’ state.
  • Respond and remediate incidents as they occur, using your experiences to develop playbooks and runbooks for the client.
  • Ensure improvements in the cloud security posture are being made.
  • Highlight logging shortfalls and work to onboard new key log sources.
  • Build in detection rules and automation as far as possible.

Essential Skills

  • Experience working heavily within Microsoft Sentinel including working in KQL.
  • Understanding of the cloud-native Azure security products.
  • Knowledge of creating automations, workbooks and logic apps to support the SOC.
  • Engineering experience would be required for one of the seats, to ensure there is someone to support the SOC from that perspective.
  • Knowledge and use of the wider Microsoft Security Product Suite.
  • Experience of capability development, document creation and process improvement.
  • Confident to handle escalations and incidents, documenting the process.

The project is a rare opportunity in the current market to develop a brownfield SOC in the current market, backed by a installation done by Microsoft themselves.

If you’re interested, please reach out to a member of the CND team.

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Point of Contact

If you have any questions about this role, please get in touch with Matt at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.