Lead Security Analyst

Skip to main content Lead Security Analyst hackajob Bristol, England, United Kingdom Apply Join or sign in to find your next job Join to apply for the Lead Security Analyst role at hackajob Email or phone Password Show Forgot password? Sign in Sign in with Email or New to LinkedIn? Join now By clicking Continue to join or sign in, you agree to LinkedIn’s User Agreement, Privacy Policy, and Cookie Policy. Lead Security Analyst hackajob Bristol, England, United Kingdom 1 week ago Be among the first 25 applicants See who hackajob has hired for this role Apply Join or sign in to find your next job Join to apply for the Lead Security Analyst role at hackajob Email or phone Password Show Forgot password? Sign in Sign in with Email or New to LinkedIn? Join now By clicking Continue to join or sign in, you agree to LinkedIn’s User Agreement, Privacy Policy, and Cookie Policy. Save Report this job hackajob is collaborating with Made Tech to connect them with exceptional professionals for this role.Made Tech helps UK public sector organisations build and run better digital services. Our Cyber practice sits at the heart of that mission — working alongside government departments, agencies, and critical national infrastructure owners to improve how they detect, respond to, and learn from cyber threats. As a Lead Security Analyst, you'll be the most senior analyst on your engagement, setting the technical direction for the SOC and owning the quality of what the team produces — from detection engineering to threat-hunting to incident response.This isn't a role where you disappear into a ticket queue. You'll shape the threat-landscape narrative for your engagement, drive the detection backlog, and build the capability of the analysts around you. That means pairing on complex investigations, setting tradecraft standards, and making sure the team's detection content is version-controlled, peer-reviewed, and continuously improved — not left to age in a SIEM. You'll also be the trusted technical interface for client security stakeholders, translating what the SOC is seeing into the language that informs decisions.The UK public sector context matters here. You'll align your work to NCSC guidance, the Cyber Assessment Framework, and OFFICIAL handling requirements — not because compliance is the goal, but because those frameworks reflect the real risk environment your clients operate in. You'll engage with cross-government security communities, feed detection content and runbooks back into the Cyber practice, and help grow a bench of analysts who can operate at the same standard.Key ResponsibilitiesSet the detection engineering standard — author, tune, and peer-review detections in KQL, SPL, EQL, or Sigma; manage the false-positive backlog; map coverage to MITRE...