Lawrence Harvey

Senior Security Engineer

Company
Location
London Area, United Kingdom
Posted At
8/26/2025
Description

Senior SecOps Engineer


Location – London (4 days per week in London)

Salary - £80-90k + Bonus + Benefits

Currently working with a global InsureTech firm who are looking to hire a Senior SecOps Engineer to compliment their established yet growing internal Cyber Defence capability.


This is a wide ranging role where you’ll be responsible for both Engineering and Analysis; monitoring and responding to incidents whilst also developing new detection rules and enhancing their monitoring infrastructure and tooling.


This is a cloud-native SOC capability, based in Azure with a big emphasis on the Microsoft E5 suite of security monitoring and detection tooling. Experience configuring, fine-tuning and managing this tooling will be essential, as well as the ability to enhance and automate where possible using KQL.


This is an incredible opportunity for an experienced SecOps specialist with experience of both SecOps Analysis and Engineering to join an established yet growing firm at a crucial point as they completely build out their Information and Cyber Security capability.



Key Responsibilities:

  • Act as a lead and technical escalation point on the most complex incidents and investigations.
  • Develop and engineer new detection rules, automating monotonous tasks where possible.
  • Proactively research emerging and potential threat actors as a way of developing rules to safeguard against potential future threats.
  • Mentor and train junior team members through complex incident response investigations.


Key Requirements:

  • Significant experience working in a SOC environment (5 years minimum), dealing with and responding to escalated and most high profile incidents.
  • Comprehensive knowledge and experience utilising/fine-tuning the Microsoft E5 Security stack – Defender, Sentinel, KQL, etc.
  • Experience working in hybrid-cloud SOC environments – Azure preferably.
  • Ability to articulate specific projects that you have built, developed or led on, specific to SecOps Engineering and Automation.



If you’re an experienced SecOps Specialist, looking to shape how one of the most innovative HealthTech firms build out their cyber defence capability and leave a lasting impact on one of the most reputable organisations whilst working alongside a team of genuine Cyber Security SMEs, click the to apply or get in touch directly – [email protected]

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