Security Operations Centre (SOC) Analyst
| Posting date: | 12 May 2025 |
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| Salary: | £33,590 to £40,170 per year |
| Additional salary information: | National: £33,590- £36,000 London: £37,480 - £40,170 plus industry leading pension and benefits. For details of our pay on appointment policy, please see below under the heading ‘Salary’. |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 27 May 2025 |
| Location: | Bristol |
| Company: | Government Recruitment Service |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 403965/1 |
Summary
Government security is undergoing a step change, and now is an exciting time to get involved. The security profession has an increasingly important role to play in a more digital world - the vision is to create an energetic, forward-thinking and technically proficient profession for government that leads the way in balancing security risks with the delivery of cost-effective, high-quality services. If you share our vision, and you are ready to drive innovation and push boundaries, we want to hear from you. Join us, and together we will create a great place for living, and a green and healthy future for all.
Defra’s specialist security function is expanding the ability for its staff to work more securely and conduct business overseas whilst protecting themselves and departmental information.
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Defra's Security Operations Centre (SOC) is accountable for protecting DEFRA against cyber threats. Our SOC analysts monitor the network and investigate any potential security incidents.
We are seeking an individual to help build our capability. Working as part of a small team you will be accountable for providing security monitoring and incident response. Using cyber security techniques, you will be ensuring that the DEFRA’s security is maintained.
Our Analysts are accountable for the day-to-day handling of alerts in our Security Information and Event Management (SIEM), incidents assigned to the Security Operations Centre and investigating indicators of compromise provided by Threat Intelligence.
As a Security Operations Centre (SOC) Analyst you will use a wide range of tools and technical expertise, currently focusing primarily on user behaviour, cloud security & application security.
Defra is transforming its IT security processes via a security improvement plan and approach in line with our new multi-supplier IT operating model. As we develop and grow against this plan the range of services that are protectively monitored by Defra’s SOC will increases.
The SOC team is based in Reading and London. The successful applicant will be expected to travel into one of either office on regular basis working a shift pattern during the day to ensure continuous monitoring of the organisation.
We welcome applicants with experience of working in a Security Operations Centre and other technological backgrounds or graduates in a relevant subject who may wish to move into this field of work, it should be noted that you must demonstrate transferable technical skills and a keen interest in cyber security to be considered for the role.
Please note this post requires Security Check (SC) clearance. To gain (SC) clearance all applicants are required to have been a UK resident for a minimum of 5 years. If this requirement is not met, the individual will not be able to progress their application further.
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