Senior Security Engineer

Title: Senior Security Engineer

Salary: £65,000 + Bonus

Location: Basingstoke - Hybrid 3x monthly

We're partnering with a company that is continuing to invest heavily in its Security Operations and Engineering capabilities.

This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced SOC Engineer, SIEM Engineer, Detection Engineer or Security Automation Engineer to join a highly skilled team focused on building, improving and automating modern security operations platforms rather than simply responding to alerts.

You'll play a key role in developing SIEM, XDR and SOAR capabilities across a diverse customer base, helping to improve detection coverage, automate response processes and enhance overall SOC maturity.

The Role

• Design, configure and optimise SIEM, SOAR and XDR platforms
• Build and improve security automation workflows and playbooks
• Onboard and integrate new log sources and security technologies
• Develop detections, use cases and automated response capabilities
• Support customer onboarding and platform implementation projects
• Troubleshoot complex security platform and data ingestion issues
• Mentor junior engineers and contribute to SOC improvement initiatives
• Work closely with security operations, platform engineering and customer stakeholders

What We're Looking For

• Experience within a SOC Engineering, Security Engineering or Detection Engineering environment
• Strong SIEM experience, ideally with Microsoft Sentinel, Splunk, QRadar or Google SecOps
• Hands-on SOAR and security automation experience
• Experience onboarding log sources and troubleshooting data pipelines
• Knowledge of XDR and EDR technologies
• Exposure to cloud security environments such as Azure, AWS or GCP
• Scripting experience with Python or similar technologies would be beneficial

This role would suit someone who enjoys solving complex security engineering challenges, improving detection and response capabilities and helping shape the future of a modern SOC environment.