Security Engineer (SOC)

ASOS.com
London
4 weeks ago
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Company Description

We’re ASOS, the online retailer for fashion lovers all around the world.

We exist to give our customers the confidence to be whoever they want to be, and that goes for our people too. At ASOS, you’re free to be your true self without judgement, and channel your creativity into a platform used by millions.

We’re proud members of Inclusive Companies, are Disability Confident Committed, and have signed the Business in the Community Race at Work Charter. We placed 8th in the Inclusive Top 50 Companies Employer list.

Everyone needs some help showing up as their best self. Let our Talent team know if you need any adjustments throughout the process in whatever way works best for you.

Job Description

Were looking to hire a Security Operations Engineer to enhance our security operations and ensure robust protection against sophisticated threats. This role reports to the SOC and IR Manager and is crucial for maintaining a high-performing and resilient Security Operations team. You will refine our SOC capabilities by monitoring network traffic, automating processes, analyzing security incidents, managing security tools, and providing expertise to Security Specialists and SOC analysts. Collaborating with cross-functional teams, you will build defenses, respond to incidents, and design strategies for a robust cybersecurity posture. You will also work with cutting-edge technologies and automation tools, including SIEM, SOAR, EDR, and cloud-native security technologies.

The role involves:

  1. Security Engineering & Automation:Drive improvements in SOC workflows, automate enrichment processes using SOAR and other tools, develop playbooks, oversee deployment and tuning of security tools to improve detection and reduce false positives, and manage EDR operations.
  2. Cloud Security Monitoring:Analyze and manage security logs through SIEM.
  3. Security Monitoring & Threat Detection:Continuously monitor alerts, events, and IoCs; build queries, scripts, dashboards, and workflows to improve visibility and reporting.
  4. Proactive Threat Hunting:Develop and implement threat hunting procedures to identify risks proactively.
  5. Incident Response:Enhance the IRP, coordinate during incident lifecycle stages, focusing on containment, eradication, recovery, and post-incident analysis.

Qualifications

About you:

  • Experience in SOC or incident response roles, with hands-on threat detection and mitigation skills.
  • Technical Skills: Strong in threat detection, incident response, analyzing attack patterns, especially in cloud environments. Skilled in writing SIEM queries, alerts, and dashboards.
  • Scripting & Automation: Knowledge of Python, SQL, Bash for automating workflows.
  • SOAR: Experience managing platforms like Google Chronicle, Swimlane, Cortex XSOAR.
  • EDR: Hands-on experience with EDR tools, including deployment, configuration, analysis, and response.

Additional Information

BENEFITS

  • Employee discount (hello ASOS discount!)
  • Personal development opportunities through ASOS Develops
  • Employee sample sales
  • Access to LinkedIn Learning materials
  • 25 days paid annual leave + a celebration day
  • Discretionary bonus scheme
  • Private medical care
  • Flexible benefits allowance

Discover life at ASOS by searching #InsideASOS on social media. Check out our tech insights through the ASOS Tech Podcast and Tech Blog links provided.

Seniority level

  • Mid-Senior level

Employment type

  • Full-time

Job function

  • Information Technology

Industries

  • Retail

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