SOC Analyst - (Havant/Reading/Hybrid) - Inside IR35

Day Rate - up to £600

Duration - 6 months

Harvey Nash's Client have a requirement for a SOC Analyst, you will support the team in:

• Provide hands-on 2nd line SOC operational support, including investigation and management of escalated incidents from the 1st line SOC
• Validate and assure quality and effectiveness of Sentinel alerts and detections
• Support onboarding of log sources and priority use cases into Microsoft Sentinel in line with CAF, T3, and ECS Keystone requirements
• Develop and utilise KQL queries to enable effective triage, investigation, and validation of security events
• Provide operational support and guidance to L1 SOC, improving consistency in alert handling and escalation
• Contribute to clearing operational backlog, including rule validation, clean-up activity, and onboarding delivery
• Perform basic tuning of analytic rules to improve signal quality and reduce alert noise (non-engineering activity