Senior Cyber Defense SOC Analyst (L3)

This is an opportunity to join Ascot Group - one of the world’s preeminent specialty risk underwriting organizations.

Designed as a modern-era company operating through an ecosystem of interconnected global operating platforms, we’re bound by a common mission and purpose: One Ascot. Our greatest strength is a talented team who flourish in a collaborative, inclusive, and entrepreneurial culture, steeped in underwriting excellence, integrity, and a passion to find a better way, The Ascot Way.

The Ascot Way guides our people and our organization. Our underwriting platforms collaborate to find creative ways to deploy our capital in a true cross-product and cross-platform approach. These platforms work as one, deploying our capital creatively through our unique Fusion Model: Client Centric, Risk Centric, Technology Centric.

Built to be resilient, Ascot maximizes client financial security while delivering bespoke products and world class service — both pre- and post-claims. Ascot exists to solve for our clients’ brightest tomorrow, through agility, collaboration, resilience, and discipline.

 

About the role:

As part of our 24x7 Cyber Defense function, the Senior SOC Analyst L3 will be responsible for investigating security incidents, improving detection content and supporting the overall monitoring, detecting and cybersecurity incident response activities. This involves working closely with the members of the internal Cyber Resilience team and our Managed Security Service Provider (MSSP).

Acting as an escalation point for L1/L2 SOC analysts, this resource will work within an expanding cybersecurity team, collaborating with cybersecurity managers, IT Infrastructure, and Deskside Support Teams.  

You must be detail-oriented, diligent, and capable of managing multiple aspects of the incident response lifecycle simultaneously. You will be supporting a 24X7 Cybersecurity Defense function and will be required to work in shifts that will vary based on operational needs to support the global footprint across the UK and US time zones. 

This resource will additionally be responsible for maintaining detection content on the detection tool, (detection rules, log ingestion, parsers, forwarders), maintaining playbooks, SOC documentation and supporting integrations and log sources associated with the overall Cyber Defense solution. This role will be in the office with a hybrid work schedule.

 

Responsibilities:

• Monitor our  security tools to triage and respond to suspicious events and abnormal activities, capable of performing deep-dive incident investigations. 
• Serve as a point of escalation for the L1, L2 SOC Analysts, and the point of contact for our MSSP, coordinating response efforts with other groups and stakeholders with varying technical expertise, such as IT, Legal, business etc.  
• Develop and implement advanced security protocols and incident response procedures and improve our threat intelligence processes.  
• Stay current with evolving threats, vulnerabilities, tools, technologies and threat actor TTPs to help improve detection and response capabilities.  
• Provide oversight and governance over the daily operations of the MSSP and SOC team at a global level.  
• Mentor and provide training to junior SOC team members.  
• Develop and refine standard operating procedures in the form of run books and playbooks for incident response and threat detection. Create and make improvements to procedures and playbooks. Conduct technical analysis, log reviews, and assessments of cybersecurity incidents throughout the incident management lifecycle.  
• Work with end users where appropriate on security related incident and request workflow. 
• Document and manage incident cases to utilize information for stakeholder engagement to provide insight, intelligent recommendations, risk reporting and lessons learned.
• Work in scheduled shift patterns when required.  
• Conduct in-depth security investigations, log analysis, network/email traffic assessment, and evaluate other data sources to identify root causes, assess impact, and gather evidence for response and mitigating actions. 
• Implement detection use cases within our SIEM for our expanding estate using appropriate scripting languages. 
• Manage log sources, log ingestion volumes, detection content and overall SIEM solution system health, maintenance, and upgrades. 
• Assist with additional ad hoc projects as required.

 

Requirements:

• Cybersecurity related Bachelor’s degree or related field.
• Minimum of 10 years of experience in a security operations role, OC engineering and or a cybersecurity technical engineering role.
• Exposure to building and migratin