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Lawrence Harvey

SecOps Specialist

Hybrid

London, United kingdom

£ 120,000 /year

Mid level

Full Time

12-03-2026

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Skills

Incident Response Monitoring Azure

Job Specifications

Security Operations Specialist

Location – London (minimum 3 days in office per week)

Salary - £100-120k + 20-30% Bonus + Great Benefits

Currently working with a UK Investment Management firm who are in the process of building out their Cyber Defence capability and looking to bring in a cloud-based Security Operations Specialist, with a blend of both Analysis and Engineering experience.

You will be dealing with the escalated alerts from a 3rd party MSSP, investigating and responding to the most complex incidents whilst building out IR Playbooks and Processes and developing the internal Threat Hunting capability. You will act as a mentor to the more junior Analysts within the team and play a pivotal role in shaping how the SOC capability is built.

This is an incredible opportunity for an experienced Senior SOC Analyst / Engineer to join a growing yet established firm at a crucial point as they completely build out their Information and Cyber Security capability. Whilst they have the fundamentals in place, this is a completely greenfield SOC buildout, where you will work alongside the Head of SecOps to shape their SOC monitoring, detection and response function.

Key Responsibilities:

Act as a lead and technical escalation point on the most complex incidents and investigations.
Proactively look for opportunities to automate, fine-tune and streamline the detection engineering and general SOC capabilities.
Utilise various internal and external Threat Intelligence feeds to execute proactive threat hunting campaigns.
Mentor and train junior team members through complex incident response investigations.

Key Requirements:

Significant experience working in a SOC environment (5+ Years), responding to and containing the most high-profile, escalated incidents.
Comprehensive knowledge of the Microsoft Security stack – Defender, Sentinel, E5 Security Suite, etc
Proven experience building detection rules, fine-tuning and streamlining SOC tooling and capabilities.
Experience working in cloud-native SOC environments – Azure and/or Azure.

If you’re an experienced Security Operations Specialist, looking to shape how one of the most innovative Investment Management firms build out their cyber defence capability and leave a lasting impact on one of the most reputable organisations whilst working alongside a team of genuine Cyber Security SMEs, click the to apply or get in touch directly – j.dale@lawrenceharvey.com

About the Company

Lawrence Harvey, established in 2002, is an international recruitment business specializing in Technology recruitment. Our consultants are specialists in their specific fields of recruitment, therefore we have expert recruiters in Enterprise Applications, CRM, Data & Analytics, Security, Infrastructure & Development and Business Advisory & Strategy. We are part of a larger group business, LHi Group Ltd, which has multiple non-competing brands specializing in Life Sciences, Energy and The Built Environment. With multilingua... Know more