Lead Cyber Security Operations Analyst
Role Overview
Lead cyber security operations at Smart DCC, protecting critical national infrastructure and services supporting homes and businesses across Great Britain.
Act as a senior technical authority within the SOC, combining hands-on expertise with leadership responsibilities.
Work closely with the SOC Manager and wider security teams to improve cyber defence.
Key Skills for This Role
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Role overview
Lead cyber security operations at Smart DCC, protecting critical national infrastructure and services supporting homes and businesses across Great Britain.
Act as a senior technical authority within the SOC, combining hands-on expertise with leadership responsibilities.
Work closely with the SOC Manager and wider security teams to improve cyber defence.
Workplace
- The role is described as hybrid in Manchester.
Responsibilities
- Lead investigations and responses to cyber security incidents and major security events.
- Serve as the senior escalation point for complex security analysis and threat hunting.
- Improve monitoring, detection content, automation, and incident response processes.
- Support and mentor SOC analysts and develop technical capability across the team.
- Lead security exercises, simulations, and lessons-learned activities.
- Work with internal and external stakeholders to strengthen security posture.
- Produce reporting and communicate security risks to different audiences.
- Identify continuous-improvement opportunities across the SOC and wider cyber security function.
- Support strategic cyber security initiatives and projects.
- Support daily security operations and help shape the future direction of cyber defence.
What the role requires
- Significant experience in a Security Operations Centre or cyber defence environment.
- Strong incident response and digital investigation experience.
- In-depth understanding of cyber threats, attack techniques, and threat actor behaviours.
- Experience with SIEM, endpoint detection and response, threat intelligence, and security monitoring tools.
- Knowledge of cloud security, particularly Microsoft and Azure environments.
- Familiarity with frameworks such as MITRE ATT&CK.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, communication, and stakeholder management abilities.
- Experience coaching, mentoring, or technically leading analysts.
- Ability to collaborate across technical and non-technical teams.
Benefits and development
- The advertised package includes a competitive salary, annual performance bonus, hybrid working, pension, private healthcare, annual leave plus bank holidays, flexible benefits, professional development and training, and wellbeing support.
- The employer describes opportunities to develop through exposure to advanced technologies and industry expertise.
About Smart DCC
Smart DCC connects homes and businesses to a secure smart meter network and describes its work as contributing to a greener future and the UK's Net Zero ambitions.
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