Cyber SOC Engineer (DV Cleared)
Newport, Wales
6 months initially
70 to 90 per hour inside IR35
Due to the nature of the role candidates must have current DV Security Clearance.
Role Overview
This role requires a strong cyber security professional to stand as an escalation point for all SOC operational engineering activity. You will be responsible for the transition of projects from the System Design team into the SOC operations ensuring impact analysis, capacity and availability management are considered prior to accepting new projects. You will also mentor/oversee members of the SOC Engineering team, ensuring all operational tasks are completed and work tickets updated/closed on time.
Responsibilities
- Support SOC Engineers & Analyst activity
- Supports change & release management activity
- Toolset availability and capacity management review and escalation
- Maintain currency in security concepts, tools and best practices
- Engagement with the R&D Cyber Defence Centre for Cyber Solutions/Products
Skill Set
Essential
- Good knowledge of multiple SOC tooling including IDPS/Firewalls/SIEM/Splunk/Email & Web Protection etc.
- Experience of implementing and fault finding Firewall technologies including Cisco ASR/Palo Alto/Fortinet
- Excellent understanding of network technologies
- Experience of Scripting and programming
- Experience of Windows and RedHat server systems and implementation of CIS hardening
Desirable
Knowledge of some of the following would be advantageous:
vCenter
Nessus Tenable
Fortinet
Patching (applications, WSUS)
Jira
Windows 11, Server 2019, Server 2022
Data Centre knowledge
Storage and backup solutions
Splunk
RHEL
VMware ESXI with vSAN
SQL and MariaDB
CheckMK
Client management
AD / LDAP (IDM and PAM)
Syslog management
Cisco Networking (LAN and WAN)
Satellite
Powershell automation and scripting
VMExplorer Backup and Restores
ISO 27001 and cyber essentials
McAfee SIEM
Disaster recovery and service continuity
