Senior SOC Engineer

Cyber Security training courses; Greater London; On-site; GBP 100,000 - GBP 125,000; Full time

Job description

Leading Financial Service firm seeks a Senior SOC Engineer to join its growing security function. Reporting directly to the CISO, this is an opportunity to play a key role in strengthening detection capabilities, enhancing threat response, and helping shape the future of the organisation's security operations.

If you enjoy hands‑on technical work, solving complex security challenges, and working within a collaborative and supportive team environment, this role offers both impact and growth.

As a Senior SOC Engineer, you will partake in day‑to‑day SOC activities whilst contributing to detection engineering, including use case development and refinement. You’ll work closely with infrastructure and development teams to ensure strong security coverage across both on‑prem and cloud environments.

Key Responsibilities:

• Monitor, analyse, and investigate security alerts through SIEM platforms
• Lead threat investigations and escalate risks appropriately
• Conduct proactive threat hunting and identify emerging vulnerabilities
• Drive and support incident response and remediation efforts
• Develop and refine detection use cases to continuously enhance SOC capability
• Contribute to broader cybersecurity initiatives and strategic improvements
• Collaborate across technology teams to embed security best practices
• Participate in a 1-in-4 on-call rotation

This role is 4 days in office, and 1 day working from home.

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