Senior Security Operations Analyst

Salary: £50,000 - 53,000 per year

Requirements:

• A good understanding of technical and network security requirements.
• Ability to proactively identify control weaknesses and vulnerabilities.
• Knowledge and experience with SIEM tooling such as Splunk, Chronicle, and Sentinel, as well as event log data.
• Experience understanding firewalls, IDS/IPS, and Windows Security Event Logs.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to explain complex ideas in clear business terms.
• Comfortable taking ownership of your work, identifying the need for action, and working effectively within a team.
• Ability to quickly understand existing infrastructure, network security principles, data flow, and security architectures.
• Knowledge of the fundamentals of cloud infrastructure as well as traditional technologies.
• A degree in IT or Cyber is preferred, or an industry-recognised qualification.

Responsibilities:

• Oversee the day-to-day running of our SIEM solution, Chronicle, working closely with Infrastructure, Networks, DevOps, and our outsourced Security Operations Centre team.
• Define and support the creation of new rules or the fine-tuning of existing rules within the SIEM.
• Investigate SIEM alerts and other security incidents through to completion.
• Work within our Information Security Team to provide a dynamic monitoring and incident response capability.
• Monitor and analyse security events to identify trends, attacks, and potential threats.
• Identify and raise problems, communicate and escalate them through the appropriate channels, and track them through to remediation.
• Monitor and gather threat intelligence, and coordinate subsequent threat hunting.
• Assess security threats from multiple sources and plan mitigation and remediation actions.
• Gather relevant data, analyse incidents, and respond to cyber security events.
• Research and stay current on the latest trends, best practices, and technology developments across cyber security.
• Assist in the design, management, and documentation of security policies, solutions, standards, and processes.
• Design effective test methods for logical security controls.
• Manage endpoint detection and response (EDR) on a day-to-day basis.

Technologies:

• Cloud
• DevOps
• Fine-tuning
• Flow
• Support
• Network
• Security
• Splunk
• Windows

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We are interactive investor, an award-winning investment platform helping customers take control of their financial future. We have supported investors for nearly 30 years and are now the UKs number one flat-fee investment platform, with assets under administration approaching £75 billion and over 500,000 customers. We offer a secure home for pensions, ISAs, and investments, with more than 20,000 UK and international investment options, plus award-winning financial journalism, community insights, and daily newsletters. This is a hybrid role based in Manchester or Leeds, with three days in the office and two days remote. We also offer a strong benefits package including pension, life assurance, private medical insurance, 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays, staff discounts, a personal well-being fund, retail discounts, and voluntary flexible benefits.

last updated 31 week of 2026