Job Specifications
We are actively building diverse teams and welcome applications from everyone.
Role: SOC Engineer
Location: Birmingham (SCC operate hybrid working, which comprises of a mix of office and home working)
Contract Type: Permanent
Salary Package: 35k - 40k plus large company benefits, a broad flexible benefits scheme, and 2 paid-for volunteering days a year
Hours: 9.00 am – 5.30 pm Monday – Friday
Interview Process: 2-stage process
Why SCC?
An inclusive workplace
Excellent package: solid basic and company benefits
Hybrid working & core hours in line with role requirements
Career development and life-long learning opportunities
Opportunity to join Europe's largest privately-owned IT Company
Role Purpose
The evolving security landscape brings new challenges and opportunities, making strong customer support essential to SCC Cyber’s success as an MSSP.
The SOC Engineer role provides the chance to work closely with the business across a wide range of managed security services, including MDR and XDR. The position focuses on delivering technical expertise to maintain and enhance operational security capabilities—monitoring the IT environment, managing security tools, and handling incidents.
As part of the core security team, the role also contributes to continual service improvement within the SOC, ensuring SCC customers receive efficient, compliant, and best‑in‑class security services.
Key Responsibilities
Be the technical engineering subject matter expert (SME) for the SOC team focussed across SIEM, Vulnerability Scanning, EDR / MDR and other Security Technologies
Perform business as usual and Project/Onboarding support for the security technologies, examples, log source health offence triage, tuning, vulnerability scanning for investigation into findings and remediation and general industry knowledge to support the security deliverables across other service
Ensure appropriate governance and appropriate checking of access to our technology solutions is in place
Provide technical guidance and assurance to colleagues in the SOC, ensuring remediation, response and general advice is accurate and actionable
Stay abreast of emerging security threats, vulnerabilities, and controls, providing technical guidance and advice on threat response plans
Provide technical consultancy support in the development of the security technologies, processes and procedures, including the development of ‘Playbooks’ to ensure best practice is implemented when possible
Ensure defined technical compliance functional requirements for each on boarding project and ensure that they are fulfilled prior to going into service
Understand the implications of standards and regulations such as GDPR, ISO27001, NCSC Cloud Security Principles, NIS2, to inform decision making
Responsible for documentation of implementations, via technical documentation and run books
Skills And Experience
Solid and demonstrable comprehension of Cyber Security including malware, emerging threats, attacks, vulnerability management and standard accreditation frameworks
Possess excellent communication, presentational, critical thinking problem solving, analytical and prioritisation skills.
Drive policy, process and procedure, maintenance, and improvement
Own workload, ensuring work is delivered on time, and exceeds management’s expectations
Have a strong emphasis on quality, accuracy and meeting deadlines
Be a self-starter and proactive in driving forward security for the benefit of the business
Possess strong briefing and technical skills to enable you to present at all levels and across the business and its customers
To have already achieved SC Clearance or undergo the process for SC Clearance.
Strong familiarity with Linux and Windows operating systems and cloud provider ecosystem
About Us
SCC is Europe's largest privately-owned IT business, based out of the new £7m HQ office in Birmingham and we help clients succeed through IT transformation and exceptional customer experiences. We are a business where innovation is greater as we combine unique ideas, people and disciplines. We are a global company that is passionate about IT and where we look to simplify the complex.
We are an equal opportunities employer
SCC is committed to providing equal opportunities and a proactive and inclusive approach to equality and diversity in employment. No applicant or employee will be treated less favourably than another on the grounds of a protected characteristic which are defined as sex, sexual orientation, age, disability, gender reassignment, trade union membership or non-membership, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race and religion or belief.
If you are selected for interview, and need any reasonable adjustments made for your interview, please let the SCC Talent Acquisition team know, at the point of scheduling.
Diversity & Inclusion at SCC - https://www.scc.com/diversity-and-inclusion/
Sustainability at SCC - https://www.scc.com/sustainabilit
About the Company
SCC unleashes the potential of IT for global businesses, as one of Europe’s largest independent IT groups.
Operating out of 65+ locations in the UK, France, Romania, Spain and Vietnam, SCC delivers limitless IT solutions in partnership with the world’s best technology vendors. Customers depend on us more than ever before to keep their businesses and public services running smoothly as well as meeting their business outcomes whether its improving operational efficiency and productivity, increasing business agility or moderni...
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