Job Title: SOC Engineer

Location: Gosport (Hybrid working 2 days per week on site)

Salary - £45 - £48k

Security clearance at SC level is required for this role

I am recruiting a SOC engineer for a client of mine who are an IT systems integrator operating within the UK defence sector. You will be part of a large SOC Transformation responsible for the support, management, configuration and maintenance of the specified security products and will have excellent technical skills.

What you will be doing:

Support, management, configuration and maintenance of security products

Responsible for availability, SIEM configuration, tuning, creating bespoke reports, capacity management, log on-boarding and ensuring that the SOC service technical infrastructure is effectively maintained

Work at a detailed technical level with a number of Line of Service teams (i.e. Unix, Wintel, networks and desktop) when resolving issues What you'll bring:

TCP/IP and networking environments

Cloud Environments

Network protocols

Packet analysis

Network and host IDS monitoring

Firewall architecture and hardening techniques

Malware types

Vulnerabilities and associated threats and exploits

Syslog and Windows log formats It would be great if you had:

IDS and/or IPS (SNORT based systems)

AV enterprise product suites

VMware, Oracle Enterprise Linux, Containerisation models

Active Directory and LDAP based user provisioning systems

Virtualisation solutions

Email gateways and lockdowns

Alerting and monitoring tools/systems

Proxy arrays or devices

Oracle and MS SQL database solutions

Oracle EBusiness Suite If you are interested in this role or wish to apply please feel free to reply to this advert or call me on (phone number removed) or (phone number removed)