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Requirements
Must:
- Strong, demonstrable experience across the Microsoft security ecosystem.
- Solid understanding of identity and endpoint security fundamentals.
- Proven experience writing and tuning detection logic (e.g., KQL) for detection engineering and threat hunting scenarios.
- Excellent communication and customer-facing skills, with the ability to lead discussions and influence outcomes.
- Ability to work autonomously, solve complex problems, and deliver high-quality technical solutions.
- Desirable: Automation experience (PowerShell, Python, API integrations) and/or systems administration background.
- Desirable: Familiarity with security frameworks and incident response methodologies.
- Desirable: Experience working with logging pipelines (e.g., AMA, Syslog, Cribl, SIEM tooling).
- Desirable: Exposure to non-Microsoft security platforms such as CrowdStrike, SentinelOne, or Tenable.
- Desirable: Experience producing architecture documents, diagrams, and technical design proposals.
- Desirable: Background in an MSSP, consultancy, or customer-facing engineering environment.
Responsibilities
- Lead technical discussions with customers, guiding architecture, design decisions, and best practice implementations.
- Own the end-to-end delivery of security solutions.
- Design and implement detections, automation workflows, and runbooks.
- Conduct technical assessments across identity, endpoint, cloud posture, logging, and security operations.
- Develop, optimise, and tune KQL queries for detection engineering and threat hunting.
- Review and enhance security configurations across cloud and SIEM/SOAR platforms.
- Manage engagements through architecture, deployment, tuning, documentation, and customer enablement.
- Identify security gaps and recommend improvements across logging, identity, endpoint hardening, cloud posture, and threat detection.
- Support remediation of misconfigurations and optimisation of security deployments.
- Leverage scripting, APIs, and automation to streamline repeatable tasks.
- Integrate firewalls, EDR platforms, logging pipelines, and SIEM/SOAR tooling.
- Act as a trusted technical advisor to security and engineering stakeholders.
- Communicate complex technical concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences.
- Translate customer requirements into actionable technical plans and deliverables.
- Collaborate with internal engineering, SOC, and platform teams to improve processes and share insights.
- Contribute to knowledge articles, design documentation, runbooks, and reusable delivery patterns.
Description
We are an established organisation seeking a Senior Security Engineer to help shape and enhance the security posture of the environments we support. This role is remote first or hybrid based in our London office, offering a blend of architecture, engineering, advisory, and hands-on implementation work. You will have ownership of technical direction across engagements, with the ability to influence customer security posture and exposure to a diverse range of environments, threat models, and operational challenges. We offer a competitive salary of up to £110,000 along with various benefits.
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