SOC Shift Lead

SOC Shift Lead

Location: London (Onsite, 24/7 Shift Pattern)

Salary: Up to £84,000 (depending on experience) + 25% Shift Premium

We're looking for an experienced SOC Shift Lead to join a high-performing cyber security operations team supporting critical, secure infrastructure in a 24/7 environment. This is an opportunity to lead incident response activities, mentor analysts, and play a key role in protecting complex enterprise environments from evolving cyber threats.

What You'll Be Doing

• Lead the investigation and response to medium and high-severity security incidents.
• Act as the escalation point for complex cyber security events and threat activity.
• Conduct root cause analysis and produce detailed incident reports.
• Coordinate containment, eradication and recovery activities with technical teams.
• Correlate data across SIEM, EDR and other security platforms to build comprehensive incident assessments.
• Support detection engineering by identifying gaps in monitoring, alerting and response processes.
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to SOC analysts.
• Participate in incident response exercises and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Take operational ownership of the SOC during your shift and act as the senior escalation point when required.

What We're Looking For

• 7+ years' commercial experience within a SOC, Incident Response or Threat Detection environment.
• Strong knowledge of SIEM, EDR, threat hunting and incident response methodologies.
• Experience leading investigations and coordinating security responses across multiple teams.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to work effectively within a 24/7 onsite shift environment.

If you're looking for a senior SOC position where you can combine hands-on technical expertise with shift leadership responsibilities while earning a substantial shift allowance, we'd love to hear from you.