Randstad Technologies
SOC Analyst
Remote Working
£500 to £550 a day Inside IR35
Active SC Clearance is needed for this role
A top-tier consultancy firm is looking for an experienced SOC Analyst to join their growing cyber team on a contract basis. This is a brilliant opportunity for a passionate cyber security professional looking to elevate their career within a high-impact, technologically advanced Security Operations Centre (SOC).
As a core member of the defensive security team, you will be on the frontline protecting critical infrastructure, platforms, and user environments.
Key Responsibilities:
- Proactive Monitoring & Triage: Keeping a watchful eye on security telemetry, investigating alerts, and identifying potential system compromises or anomalies.
- Incident Lifecycle Management: Investigating, containing, and swiftly responding to validated alerts, ensuring rapid resolution and minimal business disruption.
- Escalation & Collaboration: Smoothly escalating complex, high-priority incidents to senior engineering teams and communicating risk effectively to cross-functional stakeholders.
- Detection Engineering Support: Proactively suggesting fine-tuning requests, updating signatures, and optimizing SIEM correlation rules to lower false-positive rates and enhance alert fidelity.
- Threat & Vulnerability Awareness: Keeping your finger on the pulse of the wider threat landscape, tracking emerging CVEs, and adapting defensive postures to combat evolving attacker techniques.
Essential Skills
- Active SC Clearance: You must hold a valid, active UK SC Clearance at the point of application.
- SOC Exposure: Prior experience working within a dedicated enterprise SOC environment.
- Security Toolkit: Good working knowledge of enterprise SIEM platforms, EDR/XDR tools, and host intrusion prevention systems.
- Network & OS Essentials: A strong foundational grasp of network principles (TCP/IP, DNS) and enterprise operating systems.
- The Attacker Mindset: Solid understanding of common cyber risks, phishing techniques, malware behaviors, and attack vectors.
- Incident Frameworks: Practical familiarity with alert triage, standard playbooks, and crisp escalation procedures.
Remote Working | £500 to £550 a day Inside IR35
Active SC Clearance is needed for this role
If you are an SOC Analyst looking for a new challenging role then this could be the perfect opportunity for you. If the above seems of interest to you then please apply directly to the AD or send your CV to
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