Senior Security Engineer

Location - London (2 days in office per week)

Salary - £75-85k+ Strong Bonus + Generous Benefits

Currently working with a Global Cyber Security Consultancy who are looking to bring in a Senior Security Engineer to manage and enhance their internal Cyber Defence infrastructure. You will be working within a team of highly skilled Security Engineers, collaborating closely with the internal SOC function to continually develop the security monitoring capability, automating tasks where possible and ensuring the availability of all SOC owned security solutions.

This role reports directly into the Global SOC Manager who himself comes from a very technical background so understands the trials and tribulations of life within an advanced cyber defence function.

This is genuinely an incredible opportunity to join one of the most respected Professional Services firms worldwide. They have a very advanced cyber security capability in place already, meaning you will be maintaining a well-oiled machine whilst introducing new and innovate security engineering technologies and concepts to develop the SOCs capabilities. On top of that, you will be given the autonomy and backing to build a team underneath you, as well as dedicated time to research into various threats and cyber security topics you find interesting!

Key Responsibilities:

• Act as a lead and technical escalation point for all SOC owned security solutions.
• Work closely with SOC Analysts to identify opportunities to eliminate false positives through custom built use-cases and automate tasks where possible.
• Support the Global Head of SOC on current and future projects and Architectural issues within the SOC.

Required Skills:

• Comprehensive knowledge of SOC toolsets - SIEM, EDR, SOAR, HIDS/NIDS
• Demonstrable experience creating use cases and developing custom rules
• System integration, automation and scripting experience with Bash/Python
• Experience working in a cloud environments and basic cloud security architecture knowledge.

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