Lead Information Security Detection Specialist - 12 months FTC
- Leeds
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Drive Threat Detection Excellence: Take the lead in designing, refining, and optimizing advanced detection use cases across diverse platforms and threat landscapes—ensuring our defences are always one step ahead.
- Shape Security Best Practices: Evolve our detection policies, procedures, and documentation to align with leading industry standards and stay ahead of the curve.
- Stay Ahead of Adversaries: Integrate brand new threat intelligence and emerging attacker tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) to continuously improve detection capabilities.
- Hunt and Respond Proactively: Monitor and analyse security logs and alerts from a wide array of sources—firewalls, IDS/IPS, EDR, SIEM, cloud environments—to swiftly identify and respond to suspicious activity.
- Uncover Hidden Threats: Apply advanced techniques such as behavioural analytics and anomaly detection to surface stealthy or novel attack vectors.
- Collaborate for Impact: Partner closely with Security and Technology teams to fine-tune tools and uplift the organisation’s overall security posture.
- Be a Technical Leader: Mentor SOC analysts and fellow engineers, acting as a go-to expert and championing a culture of continuous learning and collaboration.
- Improve Operations Support: Contribute to daily operational excellence by tracking critical metrics, monitoring OLAs, providing ad-hoc reporting, and evaluating tool performance.
- Boost Readiness and Resilience: Play a key role in shaping incident response playbooks, disaster recovery plans, and business continuity strategies.
- Coordinate and Communicate: Collaborate multi-functionally with IT, infrastructure, and compliance teams to ensure timely responses and effective risk mitigation.
- Contribute to Governance: Support audit preparation and reporting, providing clear, accurate insights for internal reviews and regulatory requirements.
- Deep Security Expertise: A solid background in Cyber Security or Technology, with hands-on experience in detection engineering, threat hunting, or incident response.
- Tool Proficiency: Strong working knowledge of modern security technologies—think SIEM, EDR, threat intelligence platforms, and anomaly detection systems. You're confident navigating and using these tools to uncover threats.
- Technical Savvy: A solid grasp of networking protocols, operating systems, and attacker techniques—paired with a broad awareness of the current cyber threat landscape.
- Cloud Security Know-How: Experience with cloud-native security tooling, especially within AWS environments. Familiarity with services like GuardDuty and a good understanding of cloud security frameworks are highly valued.
- Frameworks & Platforms: Comfortable working with industry standards and tools such as the MITRE ATT&CK framework, CSPMs, vulnerability scanners, endpoint protection platforms, and proxy technologies.
- Agility in Action: You thrive in dynamic environments, adapting quickly to emerging threats and evolving tech stacks with curiosity and composure.
- Good Interpersonal Skills: You’re not just technically sharp—you’re also a skilled collaborator, communicator, and leader who can influence and encourage across technical and non-technical teams.
- Learning Mindset: While a degree in Computer Science, Information Security, or a related field is a plus, your practical experience, problem-solving mindset, and passion for security are what truly set you apart.
- Discretionary end of contract bonus
- 30 days paid leave
- Health and dental insurance for you, and 50% coverage for your partner and your children (if you all live at the same address)
- Personal life insurance and income protection
- The option to join our company pension scheme
- Looking to extend your family? You will receive a cash gift of £1,000 for your new addition whilst working for us
- 26 weeks primary carer leave at 100% pay & 4 weeks secondary carer leave pay at 100% pay
- Online Discount Scheme, including discounted shopping and cinema vouchers.