{"id":1116731,"url":"https://alion.io/job/motorway-soc-analyst","title":"SOC Analyst","company":{"id":4269,"name":"Motorway","domain":"motorway.co.uk","url":"https://alion.io/company/motorway","size_band":"201-500","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Ashby","truth_index":null},"role":"Security","role_family":"Security","seniority":"junior","employment_type":"full_time","work_mode":"on_site","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["London, United Kingdom"],"countries":["GB"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":null,"salary_estimate":{"min_usd":48000,"max_usd":116000,"period":"year","method":"global_role_cell_scaled_by_country","sample_n":227},"experience_years_min":1,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"AWS","optional":false},{"name":"Azure","optional":false},{"name":"Crowdstrike","optional":false},{"name":"GCP","optional":false},{"name":"Linux","optional":false},{"name":"SIEM","optional":false},{"name":"Windows","optional":false},{"name":"Microsoft Defender","optional":true},{"name":"Microsoft Sentinel","optional":true},{"name":"MITRE ATT&CK","optional":true},{"name":"PowerShell","optional":true},{"name":"Python","optional":true},{"name":"Splunk","optional":true}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-09-22T15:28:27Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-09-22","last_verified_at":"2026-09-25T23:17:09Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":3,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":3},"description":"About Motorway\nMotorway is the UK's largest online car-selling platform. We connect private sellers directly with over 8,000 dealers nationwide. Our online platform helps sellers achieve great prices for their cars while giving dealers fast, reliable access to the stock they want for their dealerships. Founded in 2017, our award-winning, technology-led approach has redefined the experience of selling a car. Motorway is backed by some of the world’s leading technology investors, having raised £143 million in Series C funding.\nThis is a unique opportunity to join a fast-growing scale-up at a crucial phase of growth and help change an industry for the better.\nAbout the Role\nWe are looking for a motivated Cyber Security Analyst to join our Security team and support the day-to-day protection of our systems, users and cloud environments.\nThis is a hands-on role suited to someone with existing cyber security experience who is looking to further develop their skills across Security Operations, incident response, vulnerability management and cloud security.\nYou will take ownership of routine security investigations, work closely with technical teams to resolve security issues and escalate more complex incidents to senior members of the Security team.\nWhat You’ll Be Doing\nMonitor, triage and investigate security alerts and incidents across SIEM, EDR,CrowdStrike and other security platforms.\nInvestigate suspicious endpoint, email, identity and cloud activity and support incident response activities.\nAnalyse security logs and indicators of compromise to identify potential threats..\nSupport vulnerability management, remediation tracking and security improvement activities.\nMaintain clear investigation records, security tickets, runbooks and operational documentation.\nCollaborate with Security, IT, Engineering and Cloud teams to investigate and resolve security issues.\nWhat We’re Looking For\n1-3 years of experience within Cyber Security, Security Operations, SOC or a similar technical security environment.\nHands-on experience with cyber security technologies such as SIEM, EDR/XDR, vulnerability management or cloud security tools.\nGood understanding of security alert triage, incident investigation and common cyber threats.\nUnderstanding of networking fundamentals, Windows/Linux environments and cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure or GCP.\nStrong analytical and troubleshooting skills with the ability to clearly communicate and document investigation findings.\nAbility to independently manage routine security investigations while recognising when escalation is required.\nDesirable Experience\nExperience with technologies such as CrowdStrike Falcon, Microsoft Defender, Google Chronicle, Microsoft Sentinel or Splunk.\nFamiliarity with MITRE ATT&CK and Indicators of Compromise (IoCs).\nExposure to vulnerability management, cloud security or security automation/SOAR.\nBasic experience with KQL, PowerShell, Python or similar query/scripting technologies.\nRelevant cyber security certifications such as CompTIA Security+, CySA+ or equivalent.\nBenefits\nWe've got your back, in life's biggest moments and the everyday ones too.\nCompetitive salary\n\nEquity scheme - we all share in Motorway’s success\n\n25 days holiday\n\nFlexible working (2 days a week in our London office, with socials and snacks galore)\n\nPrivate medical insurance via BUPA\n\nLife assurance\n\nPension scheme (we contribute 5%)\n\nEnhanced family leave (e.g. 26 weeks full pay for maternity or adoption)\n\n24/7 Employee Assistance Programme\n\nEV leasing scheme\n\nCycle to work scheme\n\nNursery salary sacrifice scheme\n\n1 paid volunteering day a year","description_format":"text","description_chars":3626,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":1,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":["Equity","Flexible schedule","Health insurance","Parental leave"],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Incident Response","Artificial Intelligence","Marketplaces","Information Security"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-09-22T16:20:41Z"}],"liveness":{"score":90,"band":"hot","label":"Hiring now","p_open":1,"p_active":0.903,"p_room":1,"age_days":2,"expected_fill_days":37,"reasons":["conf:0","velocity","win:early","comp:junior"],"computed_at":"2026-09-25T05:45:01Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/motorway-soc-analyst","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/motorway-soc-analyst.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-09-26T02:57:33Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","usage":{"tier":"crawler","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":3139,"day_limit":5000,"remaining_today":1861,"minute_limit":60,"resets_at":"2026-09-27T00:00:00Z"}}}