Information Security

SOC Shift Lead

Sopra Steria

Farnborough · Hampshire · United Kingdom

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Overview

In this role you lead a high-performance SOC, guiding investigations and incident response across multiclient environments. You’ll stay hands-on while mentoring analysts and driving detection improvements aligned to MITRE ATT&CK. You shape operational effectiveness within a 24/7 security operations centre protecting critical UK organisations. This is an opportunity to shape threat detection capabilities and lead a实-time, mission-critical security program.

Pay / Benefits
  • 25 days annual leave
  • health cash plan
  • life assurance
  • pension
  • shift allowance
Responsibilities
  • Lead and inspire a team of SOC Analysts in a 24/7 SOC
  • Own major security incidents and act as escalation point for high-priority threats
  • Hunt, investigate and respond to sophisticated cyber attacks across client environments
  • Analyse network traffic, endpoint activity, logs and alerts to uncover malicious behaviour
  • Drive continuous improvement of detection capabilities aligned to MITRE ATT&CK
  • Enhance SOC processes, tooling, playbooks and operational effectiveness
  • Mentor and develop analysts in cyber security
  • Represent the SOC in operational discussions with stakeholders, partners and customers
Key requirements
  • Proven experience in a SOC
  • Strong incident detection, investigation and response experience
  • Deep understanding of network and host-based attack techniques
  • Hands-on experience with SIEM technologies such as Microsoft Sentinel or Splunk
  • Experience leading, coaching or mentoring analysts in an operational security environment
  • Mentoring
  • Stakeholder communication
  • Leadership
  • SOC operations
  • Incident response
  • Threat hunting

Reference: WJ-747_31293911 · Posted 14 Nov 2026, 11:34 PM

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