Senior Security Platform Engineer

Launch Recruitment is representing a leading enterprise organisation in the search for a Senior Security Platform Engineer to support and optimise Cyber Defence and Threat Detection operations.

The role applies Reliability Engineering principles across SIEM, EDR, Vulnerability Management, and Exposure Management platforms, driving reliability through observability, automation, incident management and

suits a highly technical engineer with a passion for security, automation and Everything as Code.

Responsibilities Include -

• Driving platform reliability and performance by defining and monitoring SLOs, SLIs, error budgets, and platform health across core security platforms
• Leading reliability improvements through proactive risk identification, observability, reliability reviews, and engineering enhancements
• Build and manage observability solutions across security platforms
• Develop monitoring and alerting automation using observability-as-code principles
• Lead security platform incident response and recovery, coordinating major incidents, stakeholder communications, and post-incident reviews
• Drive operational excellence through runbooks, incident trend analysis, on-call maturity, alert optimisation, and planned change management
• Drive platform performance optimisation

Requirements include -

• 5+ years in SRE, DevOps, or Platform Engineering within large enterprise environments
• Proven expertise in SRE practices, including SLOs, SLIs, error budgets, observability, incident management, and reliability engineering for complex platforms
• Hands-on experience with automation and platform engineering, including Python scripting, Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD pipelines, and everything-as-code methodologies
• Strong knowledge of cloud and observability technologies
• Experience supporting enterprise security platforms and operations, such as SIEM, EDR, Vulnerability Management, or SOC environments
• Excellent collaboration and communication skills

If you are on the lookout for your next senior role within an enterprise environment and tick the required experience points listed above, please apply for immediate consideration.

• role requires PR or Citizenship ONLY.