Security Engineer

Security Engineer | Cyber Security | Detection Engineering

📍London based, 2 days a week onsite

💸Salary up to £80k

I'm working with a leading financial services organisation looking to hire a Security Engineer to join its Proactive Security team.

This is a hands-on role focused on security engineering, detection engineering, SIEM, threat hunting and automation . You'll help design, deploy and improve security capabilities that strengthen the organisation's cyber resilience.

What you'll be doing

• Design and optimise security monitoring and detection capabilities
• Build and maintain SIEM content, detection rules and automated workflows
• Develop threat hunting and detection use cases based on emerging threats
• Improve visibility across infrastructure, applications, identities and cloud environments
• Develop security automation and orchestration capabilities
• Support logging, monitoring and security tooling projects
• Work closely with SOC and incident response teams to improve detection and response

What we're looking for

• 5+ years of dedicated Security Engineering experience
• Strong SIEM and detection engineering experience
• Experience with threat hunting, security monitoring and security automation
• PowerShell and/or Python scripting skills
• Experience with enterprise security technologies including SIEM, EDR and DLP
• Strong understanding of identity security, Active Directory and authentication
• Knowledge of cloud security and enterprise networking
• Familiarity with frameworks such as MITRE ATT&CK and NIST

This role is best suited to someone with a strong security engineering focus rather than a broad cyber security background. We're looking for candidates who have spent their recent career designing, implementing and improving security capabilities, rather than moving between multiple cyber disciplines.

If you're a hands-on Security Engineer looking for a senior opportunity where technical depth is valued please apply!