L3 SOC Engineer

Salary: £65,000 - 70,000 per year

Requirements:

• 5+ years experience within SOC, Incident Response, or MSSP environments
• Strong background leading major incident investigations
• Advanced SIEM and EDR experience, with CrowdStrike highly desirable
• Experience with threat hunting, malware analysis, and forensic investigations
• Strong knowledge of attacker techniques, MITRE ATT&CK, and modern cyber threats
• Confident communicating technical issues to senior stakeholders

Responsibilities:

• Lead complex incident investigations including ransomware, data breaches, and advanced threats
• Manage incidents from detection through containment, remediation, and recovery
• Act as the senior technical escalation point within the SOC
• Carry out threat hunting and improve detection capabilities across SIEM and EDR platforms
• Support security tooling improvements, automation, and SOC processes
• Mentor and develop junior analysts

Technologies:

• Support
• Security

More:

We are a growing MSP looking for an experienced SOC Level 3 Analyst / Technical Lead to join our Security Operations Centre. This is a senior, days-only role with a hybrid working pattern of 2 days WFH and Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday on site in Aylesbury. The role offers the opportunity to take ownership, influence technical direction, and work on some of the most challenging security incidents while helping shape our SOC capability.

last updated 31 week of 2026