Cyber Operations Threat Hunter - #1654261

Would you like to kick start your career in a supportive, collaborative and innovative company? 

Do you enjoy working as part of an enthusiastic, passionate, and collaborative team? 

Join our Cyber Services Operations Team

You'll work alongside our engineering team to help identify tuning and optimisation opportunities, and with our wider team to support our customers through major incidents and investigations

Success. The Softcat Way. 

Softcat is a major UK success story in technology solutions. We're a £1 billion+ pa turnover business with offices nationwide and a sterling industry reputation. We help customers to use technology to succeed, by putting our employees first. Our success is down to our people – and the platform we give them to prove their potential. 

As a Threat Hunter you will be part of our 24/7 SOC, performing the highest level of Incident Response activities, proactive threat hunting and development of detection and use-case capabilities.

You'll work alongside our engineering team to help identify tuning and optimisation opportunities, and with our wider team to support our customers through major incidents and investigation

As a Threat Hunter, you'll be responsible for: 

• Leading escalated Cyber Incident Management, including Major Incidents and 3rd line analysis for ongoing investigations


• Carrying out proactive threat hunts, RCAs, creation of detection capabilities and the development of playbooks for wider use across the tea


• Provide subject matter expertise regarding exploits, threat actors, TTPs and the wider cyber security landscape


• Identifying tuning and automation opportunities in existing platforms to drive efficiency


• Provide on-call escalation support within the team

We'd love you to have 

• Strong experience working in a SOC or Information Security team, especially in an MSSP environment


• A Cyber security focused degree, related qualifications such as CISSP, CISM, OSCP, or equivalent experience. Microsoft SC-200, SC-100 and related certs are highly desirable


• Hands-on experience with SIEM platforms, such as MS Sentinel, Alien Vault, Splunk, or ArcSight


• The ability to dynamically assess risks, threats & threat actors for new and existing customer


• Capable of supporting, training and mentoring junior team members along with providing out-of-hours and escalation cover

Work in a way that works for you  

We recognise that everyone is different and that the way in which people want to work and deliver at their best is different for everyone too. In this role, we can offer the following flexible working patterns:  

• Hybrid working – Mixture of days in the office and days working from home  


• Working flexible hours - flexing the times you start and finish during the day  


• Flexibility around school pick up and drop offs 

Working with us  

Wherever you work, we want you to experience the freedom and autonomy to realise your potential. You will feel supported by a team that celebrates individuality, encourages different perspectives, and embraces every background.  

Join us  

To become part of the success story, please apply now.

If you have a disability or neurodiversity, we can provide support or adjustments that you may need throughout our recruitment process or any mitigating circumstance you wish for us to consider. Any information you share on your application will be treated in confidence.  

You can find out more about life at Softcat and our commitments to diversity and inclusion at jobs.softcat.com/jobs/our-culture/ 

Here at Softcat, we don't prohibit the use of AI (artificial intelligence) in our application process, as we understand how far it can go to creating a truly equitable candidate experience. That being said, as a culture-driven organisation, we believe that the genuine essence of each person is what truly matters, so we highly encourage you to be as authentically you as possible when submitting your application to showcase your true and whole self.

We also acknowledge that the confidence gap and imposter syndrome are a real thing and can get in the way of us meeting fantastic talent, so please don't hesitate to apply – we would love to hear from you!