Security Operations Analyst

Location: Hybrid (London or Corby)

Permanent

RS Group is seeking a Security Operations Analyst to join our dynamic cybersecurity team. We are seeking a highly skilled and motivated Enterprise Security Operations Analyst to join our Security Operations team. This role plays a critical part in a co-managed security operations model, working closely with multiple Managed Service Providers (MSPs) to monitor, detect, and respond to security threats across the enterprise.

This position requires a strong understanding of modern security operations, including endpoint protection, email and network security, data loss prevention, and cloud-based threat detection. The ideal candidate will be comfortable navigating complex environments, coordinating across teams, and contributing to continuous improvement in threat detection, incident response, and vulnerability management.

Key Responsibilities

• Monitor and analyze security alerts and events across tools including SentinelOne, Microsoft Defender, Microsoft Purview, and Zscaler.
• Coordinate with internal teams and MSPs to triage, investigate, and remediate security incidents.
• Continuously tune and optimize detection rules and response playbooks to reduce false positives and enhance operational efficiency.
• Document incident response steps, conduct post-incident reviews, and support compliance and audit requirements.
• Contribute to the development and refinement of SOC processes, playbooks, and operational runbooks.
• Participate in proactive threat hunting, risk assessments, and the identification of potential vulnerabilities.
• Stay up to date with the latest threats, attack vectors, and security technologies to support a strong defense posture.
  
  

About You

You’re a detail-oriented and proactive security professional who thrives in a collaborative environment. You enjoy problem-solving, digging deep into incident data, and staying ahead of evolving threats. You're equally comfortable working independently or coordinating with MSPs, internal stakeholders, and global teams to ensure the organization's security posture remains strong and resilient.

You bring curiosity, discipline, and a continuous improvement mindset to everything you do. Whether it's fine-tuning detection rules, automating repetitive tasks, or conducting a root cause analysis of an incident, you take pride in delivering work that makes a measurable difference.

Above all, you’re someone who’s excited to be part of a forward-thinking organization that values innovation, accountability, and building a safer digital future.

• What You’ll Bring
• Strong working knowledge of security operations, including endpoint, email, and cloud security.
• Familiarity with SIEM platforms such as Microsoft Sentinel or Splunk.
• Experience working in or supporting a co-managed SOC environment.
• Solid understanding of security frameworks such as MITRE ATT&CK, NIST, or CIS.
• Knowledge of vulnerability management practices, risk assessment, and remediation coordination.
  
  

Desirable Skills & Experience

• Hands-on experience with:
  
• SentinelOne (EDR/XDR)
• Microsoft Defender for Endpoint / Microsoft 365 Defender
• Microsoft Purview (Data Loss Prevention, Insider Risk Management)
• Zscaler Internet Access (ZIA) and Private Access (ZPA)
  
• Familiarity with scripting/automation using tools like PowerShell or Python.
• Understanding of cloud security best practices across Azure , AWS , or hybrid environments.
• ITIL Foundation
  
  

The extras you’ll get: At RS, as well as the usual employee benefits you’d expect from a FTSE listed company, including annual performance bonus, enhanced maternity and paternity leave, private healthcare, in the UK&I, we’ve just introduced a number of new Family Friendly Policies including:

• Help for people to take control of ongoing Health conditions such as diabetes or asthma with £500 a year available for monitoring & consultation
• Support for Neurodiverse colleagues and families with neurodiverse members with needs assessment, diagnosis and post diagnostic support for autism spectrum, ADHD and Tourette’s syndrome
• Support for Women at different life stages from streamlined fertility support through to diagnosis and monitoring of both endometriosis and menopause
• Helping our LGBTQ+ community through enhanced coverage for trans colleagues, including voice coaching, facial surgery and gender confirmation surgery
• Additions to Fertility coverage including IVF for lesbian couples and information/support around surrogacy and adoption for all.
  
  

We are RS

At RS we’ve been solving engineering problems for over 80 years: big ones, small ones, easy and difficult ones. We turn the ‘what ifs’ into the ‘why nots’, the impossible into the possible.

Our purpose? Making amazing happen for a better world.

We offer service and product solutions. We send out a parcel every 2 seconds, to over 130 countries. We provide over 700,000 in-stock and over 3 million unstocked products to more than 1.2 million customers.

We want people like you, as you are curious about things, you like doing things differently and also in a human way with empathy. Because that’s exactly how we partner with people – our customers, suppliers, colleagues and communities – to solve problems.

We’ll also invest in your development and wellbeing – because building a more diverse and inclusive culture, being ethical, responsible and committed to our Environment, Social and Governance (ESG) action plan is at the heart of everything we do.

Come and join us and we’ll help you to think big, do more and unleash your brilliance, so you do amazing things too.

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