ASOS is hiring a Security Specialist (SOC & IR)

ASOS is recruiting for a Security Operations and Incident Response Specialist to join our Security Operations team, reporting into the SOC & IR Manager. This role plays a key part in helping to protect ASOS from cyber threats, while continuously improving the organisation’s overall security posture. This is a skilled and hands-on role which would suit someone who enjoys problem‑solving, collaboration and continuous learning What you’ll be doing - Monitoring endpoints and triaging security alerts, supporting incidents through to resolution and contributing to root cause analysis - Investigating potential malware and suspicious activity - Helping to reduce alert fatigue through tuning, prioritisation and process improvement - Acting as a subject matter expert in at least one core security domain (e.g. network monitoring, Microsoft security tooling, bot protection) - Proactively threat hunting across ASOS’ technology estate to identify weaknesses, emerging risks and active threats - Contributing to security processes, documentation and standard operating procedures - Supporting incident escalation and participating in major incident management when required - Coaching and supporting less‑experienced colleagues, sharing knowledge across security and non‑security teams, and helping to build a strong security culture - Staying informed about real‑world cyber security threats and contributing ideas for new or improved detection techniques - Participating in an on‑call rota as part of the Security Operations team (currently one week in every five)