SOC and Incident Response Lead

ASOS
London
Workplace: HybridFull timeFunction: Administration & Executive AssistanceSkills: ["Technical leadership","Coaching","Stakeholder management","Analytical thinking","Problem-solving"]

Lead ASOS’s SOC and Incident Response team, providing hands-on technical direction across monitoring, detection engineering, and threat-led investigations. Own and improve the SOC detection lifecycle, incident response processes, and incident post-mortems. Maintain an effective operating relationship with the external MSSP and deliver incident response training, drills, metrics/KPIs, and threat simulations. Act as a technical bridge between security, wider technology teams, and third-party partners under high-pressure conditions.

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SOC and Incident Response Lead

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Job Summary

Lead ASOS’s SOC and Incident Response team, providing hands-on technical direction across monitoring, detection engineering, and threat-led investigations. Own and improve the SOC detection lifecycle, incident response processes, and incident post-mortems. Maintain an effective operating relationship with the external MSSP and deliver incident response training, drills, metrics/KPIs, and threat simulations. Act as a technical bridge between security, wider technology teams, and third-party partners under high-pressure conditions.
Location: London
Workplace: Hybrid
Employment Type: Full time · Permanent
Job Function: Administration & Executive Assistance
Seniority: Manager level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Lead the SOC and Incident Response team day to day, providing technical direction, coaching analysts, and ensuring effective operations.
  • •Own and improve the SOC detection lifecycle, including reviewing detection coverage, tuning alerts, creating new detections, and mapping coverage to attack techniques and critical assets.
  • •Establish and maintain incident response processes, procedures, and documentation aligned to industry best practices.
  • •Investigate incidents hands-on using SIEM/EDR/cloud security and forensic tooling, validating detections and guiding analysts through findings.
  • •Define incident response KPIs, track performance, conduct training/drills, run post-mortems, and lead threat simulation activities to evaluate detective/preventative controls.

Pay and Benefits

Perks:Employee DiscountEmployee SampleAnnual LeaveAnnual BonusPrivate MedicalFlexible BenefitsLearning Budget

Key Requirements

  • •Proficiency in incident response tooling, including SIEM, EDR, cloud security, threat intelligence, and forensic analysis platforms.
  • •Experience leading and coordinating responses to complex cyber security incidents, acting as a technical lead in high-pressure situations.
  • •Proven experience managing, mentoring, and developing SOC analysts and incident responders within a Security Operations environment.
  • •Strong analytical and problem-solving skills to rapidly assess, contain, and remediate security threats while managing multiple incidents and priorities.
  • •Experience with cloud security technologies, particularly Azure and/or AWS, plus building and tuning security monitoring and detections.
Experience:Security operationsCybersecurityIncident responseThreat intelligenceSIEM/EDR
Skills:Technical leadershipCoachingStakeholder managementAnalytical thinkingProblem-solving
Certifications:PCI-DSSGDPRNISTISO 27001Cyber Essentials
Languages:English
Tech Stack:SIEMEDRAzureAWSCloud securityThreat intelligenceForensic analysis

Company Brief

ASOS
ASOS plc is a UK-based online fashion and beauty retailer selling thousands of branded and own-label products worldwide through its e-commerce platform, targeting young adult customers with fast-fashion, marketplace third-party brands, and integrated logistics and marketing services.
Industry: E-commerce
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Revenue: USD 1B+
Growth: Public Company
Valuation: Public Company (Market Cap in USD)
Funding: IPO / Publicly Listed
Headquarters: London, United Kingdom
Founded: 2000
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