Senior Security Engineering Consultant

Senior Security Engineering Consultant
Basingstoke
£70,000 – £80,000

Our client is a global cyber security specialist helping organisations secure and connect their digital infrastructures. As part of continued UK growth, they are expanding their Professional Services capability and looking for a Senior Security Engineering Consultant to deliver specialist security engineering and operations consultancy across their customer base.

This is a hands-on, senior, customer-facing role within the Security Operations team, working alongside the SOC Engineering function. The focus is detection engineering and automation, helping customers improve and automate their SOC functions, tooling and detection capabilities.

What the position entails

– Leading the design and delivery of detection and response capabilities across SIEM, XDR and SOAR platforms
– Building detection rules, developing automations and creating operational playbooks that support effective SOC outcomes
– Owning the detection as code approach, ensuring detections and automations are developed and delivered consistently and at scale
– Working directly with customers to define detection strategies and design use cases aligned to MITRE ATT&CK
– Guiding improvements in visibility, coverage and response maturity
– Supporting engagements spanning SOAR and SIEM implementation, vulnerability management, exposure management and process automation
– Working closely with platform onboarding and engineering teams, supplementing them with specialist detection engineering and automation expertise

What we’re looking for

– Strong hands-on experience in security operations and security engineering
– Practical experience across SIEM, XDR and SOAR platforms
– Detection engineering skills, including rule development and use case design aligned to MITRE ATT&CK
– Automation and scripting capability, with an understanding of detection as code principles
– Exposure to vulnerability and exposure management
– Confident, customer-facing communication skills and the ability to lead technical engagements

What you get

– Salary of £60,000 + Car allowance + £15,000 Bonus
– Permanent role with hybrid working from Basingstoke
– A senior, technically varied Professional Services role across a broad customer base
– The chance to shape detection and automation capability within a growing UK team

Interested? Apply now for a confidential conversation.