Senior SOC Analyst

Business Unit: Technology Operations & Cyber Security
Salary Range: £40,000 – 50,000 per annum DOE + red-hot benefits
Location: UK Hybrid – With regular travel to either Glasgow or Newcastle hub

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Our Team
The Security Operations Centre is part of our Cyber Detect and Respond team and is responsible for monitoring our information systems for unusual and anomalous events and defending the organisation against a complex internal and external threat actors that intend to harm the interests of our customers and the bank.

We’re looking for a Senior SOC Analyst to join our SOC in the Security Operations team. We’re looking for candidates who are looking to progress in their career in Security Operations or to join the team with security experience or strong technical skills.

What you’ll be doing

• Specialisation in the use of SIEM tools to enable the detection of anomalous and usual events within our information systems covering cloud native and traditional data centre hosted services.
• Developing, supporting and maintaining the bank’s security monitoring capability as part of the transition to Azure and beyond.
• Identifying opportunities for improvement, quality assuring and implementation of technical solutions as an individual contributor or working with technical teams or suppliers.
• Supporting the response to incidents to support the containment, eradication and recovery of affected systems in conjunction with our Incident Response team.
• Maintaining awareness of new threats, articulating risk clearly and creating analytical rules to detect threats within our environment using our security tools.
• Threat hunting within our environment, to proactively identify indicators of compromise or security weakness to enable remediation and support management of operational risk.
• Working on projects (Security Investment Programme or other Change Portfolio deliveries) providing security advice to our internal stakeholders to ensure SOC requirements are understood and standards are adhered too.
• Managing your own workload, ensuring tasks are delivered on time and to the required quality.
• Acting as a Duty Officer on a one in four shift rotation to:
  • Provide direction on triage and focus for event handling, triage and escalation to the Incident Response team.
  • Provide technical expertise and support for 24/7 SOC Analyst including escalations and;
  • Provide out of hours cover for 24x7 SOC Analysts (and other stakeholders).

We need you to have

• Experience of working in a security operations environment.
• Strong analytical skills: the ability to think laterally and to think criticality.
• Effective communications skills: (both written and verbal) we need you to be able to share and communicate analysis and observations to a variety of stakeholders.
• Positive attitude: having a willingness to learn and develop yourself.
• The ability to coach, support and develop SOC Analysts in the team.
• Working knowledge of one or more general IT domains such as: operating systems, databases, networks and applications.

It’s a bonus if you have but not essential

• Strong prioritisation skills, being able to triage, assess events and information in response to the operational environment.
• Qualifications in Cyber Security.
• Knowledge of Microsoft Sentinel and Microsoft Azure (including certifications such as AZ-900, SC-900, SC-200 or AZ-500).
• Experience of working on projects as an individual contributor or as part of a team.
• The ability to work independently and to work as part of a team

Red Hot Rewards

• Generous holidays - 38.5 days annual leave (including bank holidays and prorated if part-time)​ plus the option to buy more.
• Up to five extra paid well-being days per year​. 
• 20 weeks paid, gender-neutral family leave (52 weeks in total) for expectant parents and those looking to adopt. 
• Market-leading pension.
• Free private medical cover, income protection and life assurance.
• Flexible benefits include Cycle to Work, wellness and health assessments, and critical illness. 

And there's no waiting around, you'll enjoy these benefits from day one.

Feeling insatiably curious about this role? If we’re lucky to receive a lot of interest, we may close the advert early and would hate you to miss out.

We're all about helping you Live a Life More Virgin, so happy to talk flexible working with you.

Say hello to Virgin Money
We’re making great strides towards achieving our ambition of becoming the UK’s best digital bank.  As a full-service digital bank with a heritage stretching back over 180 years, we’re a workforce to be reckoned with, and we're putting the full power of our experience behind disruptive ideas that reinvent the role a bank plays in people's lives. We're customer-obsessed and work tirelessly to deliver on our purpose, ‘Making You Happier About Money.’ This means we're able to do banking differently, and by innovating and working together we can make a real difference by creating memorable moments and red-hot experiences for our millions of customers. Join us and Live a Life More Virgin that empowers you with choice and flexibility in how you work. 

Be yourself at Virgin Money
Our purpose is to make people happier about money, this means seeing and feeling the world as our customers do by creating a workforce that reflects the rich diversity of our customers and communities.  We’re committed to creating an inclusive culture where colleagues feel safe and inspired to contribute, speak up and be heard.  

As a Disability Confident Leader, we're committed to removing any obstacles to inclusion.  If you need any reasonable adjustments or support making your application, contact our Talent Acquisition team careers@virginmoney.com

It’s important to note that there may be occasions where it’s not possible to interview all candidates declaring a disability who meet the essential criteria for the job. In certain recruitment situations such as receiving a high-volume of applications, we may need to limit the overall numbers of interviews offered to both disabled and non-disabled applicants. 

Now the legal bit
Living A Life More Virgin allows our colleagues to be based anywhere in the UK (if the role allows it), but we'll need you to confirm you have the right to work in the UK.

If you're successful in securing a role with us, there are some checks you need to complete before starting. These include credit and criminal record checks and three years' worth of satisfactory references. If the role is part of the Senior Manager Regime and Certification Regime, it requires enhanced pre-employment checks – we'll ask for six years of regulatory references, and once in the role, you'll be subject to periodic employment checks.