Lead Security Analyst

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.