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Reporting into the Head of SOC, responsible for providing increase in capability, security incident response, tooling maintenance, creating documentation and the procurement of new tooling across the company’s global presence.

Key Achievements:

• Resolving multiple security incidents, some of which had the potential to, or did cause, business impact of various degrees.
• Developing and then running an APT based simulation for the team that went from SOC up to crisis management.
• Becoming a key contact point for senior members of the business in relation to security incidents or questions.
• Demonstrating security capability to the C-level members to show the uplift we’ve had since the incident.
• Reducing the demand on other members of the team by creating automation to take care of more menial tasks.

Key Responsibilities:

• Investigating, containing, responding to and remediating security incidents.
• Defining processes for the usage of tools and response to alerts.
• Training up new members of staff so they are able to respond effectively.
• Acting as an escalation point, when required, for members of the team including out of hours on-call.
• Creating and running technical incident simulations for the team to baseline capabilities and identify areas for improvement.
• Providing input into projects and procurement attempts from an operational security perspective.

 A-Levels:

• BTEC ICT Practitioner Level 3 national Award
• History
• Government and Politics

• 5 GCSEs, grade B-C, including Maths and English.
• 4 VCEs, at pass grade, including the European Computer Driving License at level 1 & 2.
• 1 BTEC, at pass grade overall, for an ICT First Diploma at level 2. 
  • Broken down to a pass in:
  • Using ICT to present information, website development, installing hardware components   and ICT graphics. 
  • And a Merit in introduction to computer systems, mobile communications technology and security of ICT systems