SOC Shift Lead - London

Job Description

Role: SOC Shift Lead - London

Location: London

Salary: Competitive salary and package dependent on experience

Career Level: Associate Manager

Role Description

Provides advanced investigation and analysis, acting as the escalation point for complex or high severity incidents. Conduct root cause analysis, guide L1 analysts, and support incident containment and remediation efforts. Accenture is partnering with scaled UK AI compute pioneers to lead the charge on next generation infrastructure. This role is part of a high performance compute operations team in London, working 24x7 on secure, up to date high density compute stacks. Shift teams operate 24x7 and successful candidates will receive a shift premium for unsociable shift hours.

Accenture is a leading global professional services company providing a broad range of services in strategy and consulting, interactive, technology, and operations, with digital capabilities across all of these services. With our thought leadership and culture of innovation, we apply industry expertise, diverse skill sets and next generation technology to each business challenge.

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 the 24/7 SOC Team, working in shifts.
• As a shift lead responsible for handling escalations of the Technology Operations Centre in that shift; accountable in absence of a SOC manager or NOC lead.

Role Requirements

• Education: Bachelor's degree in Cybersecurity, Computer Science, or related field.
• Experience: 7 10 years in SOC, Incident Response, or Threat Analysis roles.
• Certifications (preferred): GCIA, GCIH, CompTIA CySA+, Microsoft SC-200, or Splunk Certified Power User.

Essential Skills

• Strong analytical mindset, in-depth knowledge of SIEM/EDR tools, malware behaviour, and incident handling methodologies.

Other Requirements

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 nationality at the point of application.

Closing Date for Applications: 02/03/26

Accenture reserves the right to close the role prior to this date should a suitable applicant be found.

Locations: London

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