Senior SOC Security Engineer (6 month FTC)

Job Responsibilities

• The primary function of the role is to build and deliver security controls supporting critical Change initiatives including SIEM and PKI/BYOK integrations, Defender for Cloud and Purview configuration.
• This is a hands-on engineering role suited to someone with strong Microsoft, Azure, cloud and enterprise security experience who can design, configure and improve security solutions across a complex environment.
• The role includes participation in incident, change and problem management, with some out-of-hours work required for planned change, maintenance or urgent security response.

Skills Rerquired

• Extensive hands-on SOC engineering experience across IT security, network security, systems engineering or comparable enterprise environments.
• Strong Azure, M365, cloud security, network architecture and hybrid environment security knowledge.
• Proven ability to design, configure, implement and improve security technologies, controls, tooling and processes.
• Experience with SIEM technologies, security monitoring, incident response, vulnerability management, patch compliance, server security and endpoint security.
• Proficiency with Windows, Linux, command-line tools and scripting languages such as PowerShell or Python.
• Awareness of security frameworks - OWASP, NIST, CIS, ISO 27001, ISMS and GDPR.
• Experience with automation, security testing, forensic investigation activities, DLP monitoring, privileged access, key management or HSM infrastructure.

This role offers hybrid working - 40% onsite working.