Accenture
SOC Shift Lead - London
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Role: SOC Shift Lead & Lead Analyst - London
Location: London (24/7 operation)
Salary: Competitive salary and package dependent on experience
Career Level: Associate Manager/ Consultant
Please Note: Any offer of employment is subject to satisfactory BPSS and the candidate being granted a level of security clearance which typically requires 10 years continuous UK address history, usually including no periods of 30 consecutive days or more spent outside of the UK, and a declaration of being a British passport holder with no dual nationalism at the point of application.
Note: The above information relates to a specific client requirement
Role Description
As a SOC Shift Lead, you will provide advanced investigation and analysis, acting as the escalation point for complex and high-severity incidents. You will conduct root cause analysis, guide and mentor L1 Analysts, and support incident containment, remediation, and recovery efforts.
Accenture are partnering with scaled UK AI compute pioneers to lead the charge on next-generation infrastructure for sovereign AI. To support this endeavour, we’re building a high-performance compute operations team in London.
Our work will be sensitive, secure, 24x7 and on the most up-to-date high density compute stacks available. Shift teams will be setup and operate 24x7 and successful candidates working on shift will be paid a shift premium for the non-standard unsociable shift hours that will be part of that rota.
Key Responsibilities
- Investigate escalated incidents to determine attack vectors, scope, and potential impact.
- Correlate events across multiple data sources to build a comprehensive incident narrative.
- Execute containment, eradication, and recovery activities in coordination with IT/OT stakeholders.
- Lead response for medium to high-severity incidents and document detailed investigation reports.
- Conduct tuning of detection rules and thresholds in collaboration with the Security Content Engineer.
- Support continuous improvement by identifying gaps in detection coverage and playbooks.
- Mentor and provide technical guidance to L1 Analysts.
- Participate in periodic SOC exercises and simulated incident response drills.
- Be part of 24/7 SOC Team, need to work in shifts.
- As a shift lead you will be responsible for handling escalations of the Technology Operations Centre in that particular shift. You would be accountable in the absence of a SOC manager or NOC lead.
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Essential Skills:
- Education: Bachelor’s degree in Cybersecurity, Computer Science, or related field.
- Experience: 7–10 years in SOC, Incident Response, or Threat Analysis roles (for Lead role we'll consider 5 - 7 years).
- Strong analytical mindset, in-depth knowledge of SIEM/EDR tools, malware behaviour, and incident handling methodologies.
Desirable Skills:
- Certifications (preferred): GCIA, GCIH, CompTIA CySA+, Microsoft SC-200, or Splunk Certified Power User.
About Accenture
Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world’s leading businesses, governments and other organizations build their digital core, optimize their operations, accelerate revenue growth and enhance citizen services—creating tangible value at speed and scale. We are a talent- and innovation-led company with approximately 791,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Technology is at the core of change today, and we are one of the world’s leaders in helping drive that change, with strong ecosystem relationships. We combine our strength in technology and leadership in cloud, data and AI with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise and global delivery capability. Our broad range of services, solutions and assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X and Song, together with our culture of shared success and commitment to creating 360° value, enable us to help our clients reinvent and build trusted, lasting relationships. We measure our success by the 360° value we create for our clients, each other, our shareholders, partners and communities.
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