Security Operations Centre Lead/SOC Lead

Security Operations Centre Lead is required by a large company to support and lead a team providing the organisation with 24/7 Security Operations.

You will be responsible for:

• Leading day-to-day SOC operations across all shifts and supporting incident escalation management.
• Providing technical leadership on alert triage, investigations, threat hunting, and incident response.
• Acting as the escalation point for complex or high-severity security incidents.
• Implementing security operations process improvements and automation solutions.
• Supporting and improving security monitoring, threat detection, and incident response tools and systems.
• Managing, mentoring, and developing a team of SOC analysts.
• Ensuring compliance with SLAs, reporting requirements, and security standards.

Required Experience

• Experience of working in a Security Operations Centre in a senior or lead SOC role
• Experience working with security monitoring and detection tools such as SIEM systems, endpoint protection tools, automated response platforms, and threat intelligence feeds.
• Experience with Microsoft Sentinel, Microsoft Defender, CrowdStrike, Splunk, or similar security technologies.
• Extensive threat hunting, incident response, and detection engineering experience.
• Experience in developing and tuning detection rules and security automation.