Senior Security Analyst

Senior Security Operations Analyst

Location: Hybrid – Manchester or Leeds (3 days onsite, 2 days remote)

The Opportunity

We're looking for an experienced Senior Security Operations Analyst to join a growing Information Security team, helping to protect critical business systems, data, and infrastructure from evolving cyber threats.

Working closely with Infrastructure, Networks, DevOps, and Security Operations teams, you'll play a key role in monitoring, detecting, investigating, and responding to security incidents while helping to strengthen the organisation's overall security posture and resilience.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage and optimise the organisation's SIEM platform, including rule creation and tuning.
• Investigate security alerts and incidents through to resolution.
• Monitor and analyse security events to identify threats, attack patterns, and vulnerabilities.
• Support incident response and remediation activities.
• Assess security risks and coordinate mitigation plans.
• Research emerging cyber threats, technologies, and industry best practices.
• Support the development of security standards, policies, and processes.
• Design and execute testing activities for security controls.
• Manage Endpoint Detection & Response (EDR) tooling and capabilities.

Essential Skills & Experience

• Strong understanding of cyber security principles, infrastructure, and network security.
• Experience working with SIEM solutions, including administration and rule engineering.
• Hands-on experience with Google SecOps (Chronicle).
• Familiarity with firewalls, IDS/IPS technologies, and Windows Security Event Logs.
• Ability to identify security weaknesses and vulnerabilities proactively.
• Knowledge of cloud security and traditional infrastructure environments.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to explain technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.
• Strong analytical, investigative, and problem-solving abilities.
• Degree in IT, Cyber Security, or relevant industry certifications desirable.

Benefits

• Competitive pension scheme.
• Private Medical Insurance.
• Life Assurance and Income Protection.
• Generous annual leave entitlement.
• Health and wellbeing benefits.
• Retail discounts and employee perks.
• Flexible benefits package.